Why Supporting Conservatives In Primaries Matters

Two things happened at the Colorado Capitol Wednesday (Apr. 11) which illustrate how utterly important it is to support conservative candidates in primaries. Vocal personal support isn't enough - they need your financial support, within your means.

In a minute I'll explain an easy, affordable way to help.

Case 1: Some Republicans Oppose Republican Principles

Wednesday, House Republicans and Democrats debated Colorado's budget. There are 33 Republicans, and 32 Democrats - a 1-vote GOP majority.

Conventional wisdom says when it's that close, you support any Republican, no matter if they oppose conservative principles. Don't rock the boat.

Some Republicans, led by Rep. Chris Holbert and Rep. Marsha Looper, rocked the boat. They made a stand against taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood. Any taxpayer funding (direct or indirect) for an organization that provides abortions is illegal under Colorado law - it's in the Constitution. That doesn't stop Democrats from trying anyway. And they did Wednesday.

Holbert, Looper, and a number of other stalwart conservatives rallied the troops and got every Republican to vote NO on funding.

That's a success story. But how did we get there?

Wouldn't it have been easier to block funding back when the GOP had more than a one-vote majority? Seems like a point in favor of the "big tent" and "don't rock the boat" camps, but it's not.

The backstory is that just a few years ago, even when Republicans held a substantial majority in the Statehouse, a few Republican legislators - as many as one-third - would have voted with the Democrats to support Planned Parenthood.

Primaries matter. Supporting conservative candidates matters.

If conservative candidates hadn't stepped up and challenged the liberal, RINO Republicans (Republicans in Name Only), and if conservative citizens hadn't stepped up and donated to the conservative cause, a majority of the House would still support Planned Parenthood and all the killing they do. Excusing all the state laws they violate. Accepting all the young women they place in jeopardy.  

YOUR tax money supporting the deaths of thousands of unborn children in Colorado! 

Supporting conservative candidates matters!

In 2010, Colorado Conservative Action helped Rep. Chris Holbert win a 3-way primary election. He's now a rising star in the conservative movement, and is leading the fight on many conservative issues.

Case 2: Some Republicans Are Liberal Extremists

In 2003, Scott Peterson killed his pregnant wife Laci and dumped her body, and the body of his unborn son Connor, into San Francisco Bay. California charged him with two murders.

In the years since then, public outcry caused 38 states to enact laws allowing the killing of an unborn child during the commission of a crime to be charged as a separate murder. Colorado, almost a decade later, remains one of a handful without such a law.

Why? Because so many Republican legislators did whatever Planned Parenthood wanted. Pro-abortion forces had a functional majority in a legislature controlled by Republicans! And Planned Parenthood didn't want any laws on the books that might suggest an unborn child has value to anyone - even his or her own pregnant mother.

Polls show anywhere from 70-90% of citizens believe the killing of pregnant moms' "wanted" children should be prosecuted as murder. A majority of Democrats hold such a position. Even a majority of pro-choicers. Opposing these laws is extreme!

But Wednesday, Republican Senator Ellen Roberts voted with the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee to kill even this most basic protection for unborn children - a measure supported by the vast majority of Coloradans. Roberts has been in the pocket of Planned Parenthood since she won her first election.

Supporting conservatives is important. Supporting them financially is especially important.

In 2010, Colorado Conservative Action gave money to conservative Republican Dean Boehler during the primary in an attempt to prevent Ellen Roberts from being elected to the Senate. She won the primary anyway, but it wasn't easy.

Colorado Conservative Action tried to stop Ellen Roberts, and her extremist agenda. Maybe with more donations we could have done it. 

She's the most pro-abortion Republican in the Senate. She's also the second worst tax-and-spend Republican in the Senate, according to the Colorado Union of Taxpayers.

Beware all the liberals dressed as conservatives this election season. There are many Republican candidates who don't match their rhetoric.

CCA only supports candidates who are pledged to be 1) pro-life, 2) pro-gun, 3) fiscally conservative, and 4) pro-liberty (and all the things that entails - 10th Amendment, property rights, etc.). You can feel confident that if you donate to Colorado Conservative Action these candidates will be vetted on these important principles, and the money will be wisely allocated only to candidates who really mean what they say.

This committee can only donate to candidates at the state level (i.e. not candidates for federal, county or city offices). By law, I cannot promise to support a particular candidate.

Its goal is to replace liberal Republicans and Democrats with principled conservatives in the State House and Senate by financially supporting them in primaries, and then also in the November election.

Will YOU Donate to Help Conservative Candidates?

Please contact me if you have any questions, or if you want to make sure I'm the real thing. I've worked on campaigns since 1984 and served as a political communicator at the State Capitol as press secretary and speechwriter. I know how to evaluate candidates and how to spot evasions when trying to pin them down.

Colorado Conservative Action can receive checks, or Paypal donations, from US citizens of up to $550 per election cycle. Less than that is fine.

If anything more than $50 is outside your budget, then you could donate to my small donor committee, the Conservative Renewal Fund (I sometimes call it the "Conservative Renewal Authority" for fun).

Anything you can contribute will help the cause. Contributing to Colorado Conservative Action magnifies your money, allowing you to donate more than just direct contributions. It also amplifies your political voice, because candidates who receive donations from CCA know they're getting it because they are steadfast in defending conservative principles and they'll be held accountable.  

Thanks to your generosity, conservative candidates will get a check with a "note" attached - one that says, "Thanks for standing up for conservative values!"

Every individual citizen can donate up to $550. Other members of your household may also donate $550. I'll need to know the name and occupation of each individual donor.

I will appreciate anything you can give, and so will principled candidates.

Ed Hanks
Colorado Conservative Action
1005 Northridge Rd.
Littleton, CO 80126 720-301-4270
coloconservative@aol.com

Find Colorado Conservative Action at www.coloradoconservative.org
($550 donation limit - US citizens only)

or

Find the Conservative Renewal Fund at www.renewalauthority.org
($50 donation limit - US citizens only)

Independence Day - Three Solid Candidates

This Independence Day, Colorado Conservative Action has written three checks for three stalwart conservatives running for legislative office. These guys are going to help us “declare independence” from those who push the “nanny-state control-state” which now rules our state legislature. But they need your help, and so does CCA need your help to help them.

None of them have received the maximum contribution from CCA yet, so your contribution can send yet more funds their way. Can you help us provide more money for these three great candidates?

CCA only supports candidates who are true conservatives – fiscal conservatives, pro-life, pro-gun, and not just “saying” they believe these things, but going on the record and having enough sincerity or credentials that we know they are serious.

Dean Boehler is running for State Senate District 6, in western and southwestern Colorado – from Pagosa Springs to Durango, then north as far as Montrose. He is running against a liberal Republican who has a seriously bad record on a number of things. State Representative Ellen Roberts – his primary opponent was ranked as the MOST pro-abortion Republican in the whole legislature!

Boehler was going to run for another office, but he checked into Roberts’ record and realized it was his duty to run as a solid conservative candidate against her. It’s never easy running against a current legislator, even one who’s running for a different office, but Dean Boehler knocked her socks off at the District Assembly (carrying 67% of the votes, and almost keeping Roberts off the ballot!). Dean Boehler has the strength and determination to win despite his opponent's fundraising lead. He's making up for it through sweat and tears and a strong grass-roots presence. Whoever wins the Republican nomination has a good chance of beating the do-nothing Democrat incumbent. There should be a clear difference in principles between the Republican candidate and the Democrat, and that will only happen with Dean Boehler!

Kevin Grantham is running for State Senate District 2, in south-central Colorado – the counties around Pueblo, including some of the city and its suburbs, from Canon City into the Arkansas River Valley. This is a district that has been held by Republicans and is likely to be held by the GOP. Grantham s running on solid fiscally and socially conservative ideals, and is competing in a primary against an establishment candidate with experience in county government – a bureaucrat who will do what bureaucrats do, in ignorance of conservative principles. His opponent is also on record as supporting abortion (stated he is "pro-choice" in a recent radio appearance). Grantham's conservative principles are in stark contrast to his opponent.

Chris Holbert is running for State House District 44 in Douglas County – an area which includes Parker, Lone Tree and Roxborough Park. It’s a district populated mostly by strong conservatives, but 2 of the 3 Republicans running aren't conservatives! Holbert supports solid conservative principles – social and fiscal – and is running against two candidates with quite a bit less to say for themselves, including another teacher/bureaucrat on the one hand, and a wealthy government contractor on the other. Holbert has the backing of almost every legislator we conservatives have come to admire, but this won’t be an easy race because of his opponent’s self-funded campaign spending spree. Don’t let a liberal Republican buy this office – help give Chris Holbert the opportunity to be Colorado’s star freshman in the coming State House!

Each of these three candidates is also a committed Christian, bearing solid witness and demonstrating their faith through service to their community here and abroad.

There are many other great candidates out there, but some of them don’t face a Republican primary opponent, and others don’t need much help defeating their Democrat opponent. Funding conservatives in tough primaries is the best way for us to get the RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) out of office and make sure our Republican officeholders represent YOU, and not some special interest or middle-of-the-road voter who doesn’t understand principles and doesn’t really know what he believes. Colorado Conservative Action will help candidates out after the primaries too, but there are good conservatives who need our help now.

Will you help us by giving a donation that represents your urgent desire to change our government? Naturally, we ask you to give the maximum donation if you can -- $525 per person (a two-person household can give twice for $1050). If you can’t give that much, then please give what you can. These funds will be directed toward people who believe the way you and I believe – true conservatives who we can trust to do the job right.

Thank you!

Ed Hanks
Colorado Conservative Action

Write checks of no more than $525 to Colorado Conservative Action, and send to Ed Hanks, 1005 Northridge Rd., Littleton, CO 80126 or donate online using the Paypal button at the bottom of this page (or at the top).