Published by CTBC Director on 16 Mar 2010 at 09:12 am
Support Clear The Bench Colorado at your Precinct Caucus tonight!
Tonight is the night that Colorado citizens of all political persuasions (at least those registered with a political party) have the opportunity to make their voices heard and influence their respective party’s choice of candidates in the elections, at their local precinct caucus. The precinct caucuses are the most direct interaction that the majority of Colorado citizens have in the political process, and we encourage everyone to take advantage of the opportunity, whatever your party affiliation.
The precinct caucuses ALSO present the opportunity for citizens to speak out on matters of policy, as well as politics - by introducing resolutions at the caucuses to gain support within the political parties and their membership.
Clear The Bench Colorado asks citizens attending the caucuses who care about our Constitution and upholding the rule of law - be they Republican, Libertarian, Green Party, or Democrat (although it may take a bit more courage from members of the latter parties) to introduce the following resolution (which must be submitted in written form) at your local precinct caucus:
Whereas, the rule of law must be upheld by judges who respect the Constitution and act to interpret laws as written, rather than make them by legislating from the bench and overriding the will of the people -
Be it Resolved that We The People strongly advocate a “NO” vote on the retention of Colorado Supreme Court Justices Michael Bender, Alex Martinez, Nancy Rice, and Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey in the November 2010 elections, in order to restore accountability to the judiciary of Colorado.
Join Clear The Bench Colorado in returning “power to the people” - get active, get involved, raise your voice and help to restore accountability to the Colorado judiciary by exercising YOUR RIGHT to vote “NO” on the four unjust justices of the Colorado Supreme Court (Justices Michael Bender, Alex Martinez, Nancy Rice, and Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey) who need YOUR approval to continue taking away your rights: your right to vote on tax increases, your right to defend your home or business from seizure by government abuse of eminent domain power, and your right to enjoy the benefits of the rule of law, not rule by activist, agenda-driven “justices.” Help to Support Clear The Bench Colorado with your voice (Sound Off!), your contributions, and your “NO” vote to remove these unjust justices on election day this November!
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Jeanne Smith on 16 Mar 2010 at 11:56 PM #
Attended our caucus tonight & wish I’d heard about this before. Been in CO for 10 years & never had reliable information on the judges up for reinstatement.
Would like to know of a way for voice my opinion or back this movement now that the caucus is over.
Ken Smith on 17 Mar 2010 at 6:20 AM #
It seems that the faithful have had enough of corruption– err, government as usual, and have sent a pellucid message to the First Family of Republican Corruption (the Nortons) and the twenty-or-so people who think they run the Party in this state.
Whenever you let a Norton anywhere near power, the only resulting beneficiaries are the Seventeenth Street law firms. Nortons are subhuman parasites, who live on the peddling of influence. Case in point: Mike Norton was on the Colorado Commission for Judicial Discipline. And if that soulless piece of corruption and hypocrisy had done the job which had been entrusted to him, Clear the Bench Colorado would not even been necessary.
While Norton professes Christian faith and even sports two divinity degrees, he is a poster child for the proposition that the short definition of a Christian is one whose word is meant for preaching, as opposed to keeping. As I reminded him personally, anyone “who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.” Jas. 4:17. I added that, “as a Christian you are accountable — not only to God and fellow Christians, but to everyone you meet. E.g., 1 Tim. 4:12. We notice whether you are “Doers of the word and not hearers only (James 1:22)”.1 After all, although you are ‘called to go forth and teach all nations,’ Matt. 28:19, if what you have to teach is of so little value that you won’t even incorporate it into your own life, why should anyone else endeavor to learn it?”
He was willing to look the other way when the four judges we are all trying to remove from the bench committed a federal felony — deciding a case in which they were named as defendants in tort, in open defiance of Colorado and federal law. This would have been more-than-adequate grounds for him to pick up the phone and advise the United States Attorney’s office that a federal felony had been committed, and that it should act accordingly. Indeed, it was implicit in his duties as an officer of the State. But this is a man who has made his career out of buying and selling influence, and whose wife is a means to that end. One is left to wonder how one can even exist without a soul; if you should see him, feel free to ask for me.
When you make that next call, or drive to that next speech, remember that Mike Norton made it necessary.