Posts Tagged ‘Lynne Fox’

With Election Day over and a new mayor and members of council seated on the Thornton City Council dais, it is time to get down to business – literally and figuratively.  The economy continues to cast a pall on everything but there are other issues we would like to see council tackle. In no particular [...]

Catering to special interests has become the modus operandi for the leftist dominated Thornton City Council over the past two years.  Now the liberal elements sitting on the dais are set to pass a resolution backing benefits for illegal immigrants that even U.S. citizens cannot receive. Senate Bill 11-126 has been passed by the Colorado [...]

All it takes is several thousand dollars worth of campaign contributions and you too can further your special interest group with the City of Thornton.  Over the past year and a half unions have found a veritable haven within Thornton and a proposed new ordinance seeks to further push labor groups’ interests while making Thornton [...]

So what does tens of thousands of dollars buy you with Thornton City Council?  Judging by the actions of some on council Tuesday night, it gets you payback in the form of granting unions inroads to city employees. City council members that have received significant campaign contributions from organized labor managed to pass a resolution [...]

 Certainly Adams County is virtually dominated by Democrats so it isn’t always surprising when things tilt to the left.  Despite this, Thornton has managed to always maintain a good balance between the left and the right in matters of city policy.  At last night’s city council meeting however, council shifted the balance by granting benefits to [...]

Our ever-efficient (NOT!) county government finally finished counting ballots at 6:00pm on Wednesday – 23 hours after polls closed.  The county had fewer ballots to count than the majority of Denver area counties and yet somehow managed to take four times as long as the next slowest.  Various excuses are making the rounds for the [...]

Election Day and election night have come and gone and yet again Adams County was not up to the simple task of counting ballots. Scroll down to see the editor’s notes for the latest update on this story Unable to complete their responsibilities, they headed home to bed and posted a notice on the county website [...]

It’s Election Day across the county today.  Here in Thornton there are city council races in every ward and we also have Adams County Issue 1A on the ballot.  Historically voter turnout in off-year elections is pretty dismal – around 30% or so.  This is truly sad and disappointing.  It is my firm belief that [...]

We recently wrote about how much money had been raised by the people running for the four open Thornton City Council seats.  This was done as an exercise in understanding not only how much it costs to run for local office but also where that money comes from.  In looking at the candidate contribution reports, [...]

Thornton City Council candidates posted their contribution / expenditure reports this week (click here to view them).  In looking at them, they provide some insight into how much it costs to gain one of the eight coveted seats – four of which are up for grabs right now.  It is also interesting to see who [...]