On the Move – Against Big Government

by    Jenny Beth Martin    (ECT reprint)

The time has come for men and women of integrity, with an unwavering commitment to freedom and the Constitution in their hearts, to come together once again, en masse, to show the ruling class in DC that their long train of abuses has come to an end.

Join Tea Party Patriots and many others for an Audit the IRS rally on the west lawn of the Capitol in Washington, DC on Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at high noon.Gadsden-Reverse-2

The members of the ruling class, from both parties, are outing themselves in the wake of scandal after scandal, as they seek to do damage control and circle the wagons around each other. That foul stench emanating from Washington, DC is the fear they have of losing their power. For four years, the tea party movement has been sounding the alarm that big government is out of control in every way, in every department, in every agency, in every branch of government, and in every party.

Which scandal gets under your skin the most?

Is it Fast and Furious? Is it Benghazi? What about the State Department covering up misconduct and halting investigations? The NSA spying on innocent Americans.

What about the IRS targeting, discriminating against, and oppressing the speech of conservative and tea party groups? Or perhaps the IRS illegally leaking confidential donor information of conservative groups to their political opponents? Or maybe it’s the fact that the IRS spent $50 million in two years on conferences, parties, and really awful parody videos for their employees? Could it be the IRS stealing millions of private medical records? Or was it when the federal government asked American citizens for the content of their prayers.

Is it knowing that Obamacare enforcement will be administered by same IRS that systematically oppressed Big Government’s political opponents, with the same woman in charge? Maybe it’s that Congress is trying to exempt themselves from Obamacare while forcing the American people to suffer under it, without choice and without recourse.

Are you incensed about the 1000% increase in FBI records requests under the PATRIOT Act in the last four years? What about Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius using her position of power to shake down private insurance companies to extort them into donating to a pro-Obamacare nonprofit.

Is it the hundreds of HHS employees gaining early access to a Medicare decision worth billions of dollars to private insurance companies? Or maybe it’s the Congressional insider trading and the news that Congress and President Obama quietly gutted the provisions that would make it harder for them to use their access to information to make millions in the stock market.

Wait, is it the DOJ illegally seizing Associated Press phone records and FOX News reporter James Rosen’s phone records, email, movements, and more? Or was it when Attorney General Eric Holder possibly committed perjury in front of Congress? Maybe it was when Director of Intelligence James Clapper also possibly committed perjury in front of Congress.

Hold on, was it when you found out that the Department of Homeland Security stopped doing background checks after President Obama unconstitutionally changed our immigration laws with a simple executive order.

Perhaps it was the four ongoing scandals at the EPA–1) The EPA giving an ethics award to a fake employee that was invented so that EPA head Lisa Jackson could avoid transparency and FOIA laws? 2) The EPA making conservative groups pay FOIA fees over 90% of the time while waiving the fees for liberal groups over 90% of the time? 3) EPA employees creating swanky personal rec rooms at the office with taxpayer money and hiding them from the building cameras by stacking boxes all around the room? 4) The EPA leaking confidential and personal information about farmers and cattle facilities to environmentalist groups.

What about the nepotism at the Department of Energy.

TAKE YOUR PICK.

And those are just some of the ones we know about.

If that’s not enough to get people out of the house and into the streets, what else will it take? What other sort of abuses are you willing to take.

If you are fed up, visit www.AUDITtheIRS.org and join other freedom loving Americans, to take a stand on June 19th for your rights and for the natural, human desire to be free.

 

Obama? Open and Transparent as the NSA

by   actually we use to work at Ft. Meade…

Just pick any Obama Administration Scandal – and ask yourself how much you really know about “just what happened” because the Obama Administration has disclosed it to you.

- The murder of Americans in Benghazi, Libya – why did this happen to a U.S. Ambassador?  (how many months has it been?)

- The NSA now (electronic spying?) on Americans?  How much? To what extent?  How long has this been going on?  Perhaps we should ask Mr. Orwell…

- The IRS targeting Conservative non-profits and individuals.  Lois Lerner (ran the IRS section on non-profits) insisted “she did nothing illegal” then took the 5th Amendment in front of a Congressional hearing.

- The “top cop” of the U.S. – Attorney General Eric Holder, lying and misleading Congress with his self proclaimed “I didn’t know” defense.

- Obama promoting – Ambassador Susan Rice (now National Security Adviser – thanks to Obama) after she lied to the American people on the Sunday Talk shows – trying to convince Americans of the false cause of the Benghazi terror attack that killed Americans in Libya – just a couple of months before the November 2012 election…

Which brings us to a genius local weekly Fishwrap columnist – who is obviously more concerned with the opinion one Fox News commentator – than what is going on in his own Country – and who is responsible for these Scandals…Obviously we have our own Obama drone, here at home, in the pages of the Daily Fishwrap!

Below is a brief video on the list of the current Obama Administration Scandals – and how much – we just don’t know – because of the Administrations stonewalling.

Obama Administration– Open and Transparent as the NSA

 

Tax Day in Avon – July 1st 2013

by  no fan of the IRS

The ECT folks think this is a local Scandal.

Why?   Because (so far) no one but the ECT is willing to tell you what is going to happen in Avon on Monday,  July 1st 2013.

What?

Know where the Wal~Mart and Home Depot are in Avon?

The land in and around that location is what’s known legally as the “Village at Avon”.Walmart-Logo   They have a nice big flag pole you may have noticed.

So?

So,  everyone shopping in any of the stores at the “Village at Avon” will be paying an additional 0.75% Tax (yes, the ECT calls it a TAX) starting on Monday, July 1st 2013.

Why?  Because as part of the lawsuit Settlement Agreement between the Town of Avon and the Village at Avon Developer (Traer Creek) – their combined lawyers of both litigants have agreed that the folks who shop there – will now pay more – to shop there.

Now for “the hook”…

The Hook?  (smell a rat yet?)

Yes, since the lawyers have in their combined Settlement Agreement – decided to use the legal verbiage “FEE” (as opposed to using the legal term TAX) – these Juris Doctor (rip off artists) claim they have sidestepped the legal requirements of Colorado’s TABOR law.  At least they both think they have…

Bottom Line:  The litigants now believe they don’t have to meet the legal requirement of going to Avon voters – to ask permission to raise Taxes in the Town of Avon…because you see TABOR aficionados…it’s really just a “FEE” and not a “TAX”.  Got it?

Can your wallet tell the difference?

Bottom Line:  The total Tax (yes, the ECT still calls it a Tax) is now as of (1JUL2013) just under 10% for all purchases made at the Village at Avon…

home-depot-logoJust a few feet west of the Wal~Mart is a Traer Creek building (also in the Village at Avon) known as Traer Creek Plaza – home to Castle Peak Grille – a liquor store – and of course the offices of the “Vail Valley Partnership”…Eagle County’s main cheerleader for all things related spending money to promote a strong local Economy.

One wonders what these VVP folks have to say about this latest “economic development”.  Do they even know about it?

Q.)  Why should the folks that choose to shop in the Village at Avon – be required to pay more (0.75%) when they were never part of the original litigation nor a party to any of the legal disputes that sparked that (years old now) lawsuit?

Do you believe these local politicians are any different than the ones on display in Washington, D.C. these days?

 

Kathy Chandler-Henry Chosen as next Eagle County Commissioner

by – the Daily Fishwrap doesn’t seem to be interested in telling you – so the ECT will!

Dateline:  Thursday, June 13th 2013

Kathy Chandler-Henry has been chosen by local Eagle County Democrats as the next Eagle County Commissioner – to fill the vacancy by departing Commissioner Jon Stavney.

Kathy is expected to be sworn in by July 1st 2013.

Regrettably, Commissioner candidate Donald McMahan (the candidate with the strongest private sector Financial background) finished a close second according to reports submitted to the EagleCountyTimes.Com

This marks the first time ever that Eagle County has been represented by 3 women occupying all 3 seats on the Eagle County Board of County Commissioners.

They are all democrats.

ECT Comment:  Open wide, Eagle County Taxpayers and hold on to your wallets!

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Avon’s Northside Cafe – Pours it On

by  the Two Sides of Every Story

Proprietor Jim Pavelich  calls it Northside Coffee and Kitchen – The ECT calls it ‘Palazzo Pavelich’ – Jim’s happy customers just call it good.  Jim is still working on his Shamrock skills carving it into the foam at the top of a slow pint of Guinness – however the ECT folks were happy to be at the Northside – while Jim was practicing.

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Outside the Northside is what’s new – with a new expanded Parking Lot across the street  – that Joni Mitchell might not approve of, but the ECT does!

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Inside the Northside – is a newly expanded Southside of Jim’s restaurant designed to get more customers from the Outside to the Inside of his Palazzo Pavelich.  The food is good, the prices are right and the staff at the Northside is friendly.  So the next time you’re in mid-valley (breakfast, lunch or dinner) hop off the Avon Exit – turn North and turn in.

 

ECT is Asking You! Leave us a Comment

by Clayton Moore

The ECT wants to know – so we’re asking our Readership.

Topic:  The selection of the next Eagle County Commissioner – to fill the vacancy left (3 and a half years by the way) by departing Commissioner – Jon Stavney.

Q:  What Skill sets do the remaining Commissioners (Jill Ryan & Sarah Fisher) have?

Q:  What Skill set (demonstrated by the Candidates – Kathy Chandler-Henry, Donald McMahan, Adam Palmer, Paul Witt or Rohn Robbins ) would be best suited to serve the interests of the citizens of Eagle County?

Indeed, what skill sets do these Commissioner candidates  have…

Our remaining County Commissioners….Jill Ryan has experience as a young Mother.  Sara Fisher is a creature of County Government having served for years – as the County Clerk – that over saw the election that brought us Arn Menconi as County Commissioner before becoming a Commissioner herself.

Any Private Sector experience here candidates?  Job Creators?  How about folks who have worked to lower Taxes for Eagle County’s working families?

Well Commissioner Candidates here’s your chance to “toot your own horn”.  And thanks to the      EagleCountyTimes.Com     won’t cost you a dime!

All are welcome to leave a civil comment here at the ECT – anonymous or not – ECT doesn’t care – just keep it civil.  -CM

Education $0.00 vs. $5.3 Million for Open Space

by -  What’s your priority?

Dateline:  Thursday, June 6th 2013

Public School Education in Eagle County just took another $5.3Million dollar “hit” again – with the miss-appropriation of millions more of Eagle County’s Property Taxes.

To the Moms and Dads that have their kids in Public School – the ECT asks – what’s your priority?

Consider:  the recent purchase of so called Open Space – the Avon Preserve.

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FACTOID:  Was this land between Avon and Singletree under threat of job creating Development?  No.  Are local Mom’s complaining about over-crowding in Public Schools located in Gypsum?  Yes.  (Click Here)

FACTOID:  This parcel could have been protected into perpetuity – simply by changing the Zoning for the land in Avon and Eagle County – at ZERO COST to the Taxpayer.  Just a simple vote from the elected officials.  Not surprisingly our genius elected leadership has NOT been unable to figure this one out.

FACTOID:  It comes as no surprise that Avon’s Mayor – Rich Carroll has “praised” this wasteful purchase at the recent public ceremony (that virtually no Eagle County Taxpayers attended)  This Mayor is the one who still hasn’t been able to end Avon’s 5+ year lawsuit with – Developer Traer Creek – at a cost to the Avon Taxpayer approaching $3Million in legal fees.  And what has Avon’s Taxpayer gotten for their Millions.  Nothing.  It’s little wonder that this Avon elected genius – has no problem wasting money.  Carroll made a political career out of it.

 

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