Saturday, April 14, 9:00am

Magness Arena at the

Daniel F Ritchie Center at

University of Denver

2201 E Asbury, Denver 80208

Registration begins 7:00am

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JUDICIAL DISTRICT 17 ASSEMBLY

Friday, April 13, 9:00am

in Wells Fargo Theater, Sec 1 in the

Colorado Convention Center

700 14th Street, Denver 80202

Registration begins 8:15am

(If you are a Del/Alt to State, you are

also a Del/Alt to JD17)

CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 7 ASSEMBLY/ CONVENTION

Thursday, April 12, 6:00pm

Jefferson County Fairground

15200 West 6th Ave, Golden 80401

Registration begins at 5:00pm

CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 6 ASSEMBLY/ CONVENTION

Friday, April 13, 2:00pm

in Room 705 at the

Colorado Convention Center

700 14th Street, Denver 80202

Registration begins at 1:00pm

CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 4 ASSEMBLY/ CONVENTION

Friday, April 13, 2:00pm

in Wells Fargo Theater, Sec 1 in the

Colorado Convention Center

700 14th Street, Denver 80202

Registration begins at 1:00pm

HOUSE DISTRICT 56 MULTI-COUNTY ASSEMBLY

Friday, April 13, 12:00pm (Noon)

in Room 712 at the

Colorado Convention Center

700 14th Street, Denver 80202

Registration begins at 11:15am

(If you are a Del/Alt to State from HD56,

you are also a Del/Alt to the HD56 Assembly)

2012 Adams County Assembly Results

Delegates & Alternates by House District: 
Instructions: Click the  that corresponds to your House District Below

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Congressional Delegates and Alternates:
Instructions: Click the  that corresponds to your House District & Congressional District Below

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Colorado State
Republican Assembly

Responsibilities & Services

The Adams County Elections Department, a division of the Clerk and Recorder's Office, conducts federal, state and county elections and maintains the voter registration database. Conducting elections includes:

• Administrating the mail in and early voting processes
• Maintaining strict security processes and procedures
• Maintaining the voter registration database
• Managing the ballot tabulation process
• Preparing canvass reports and statement of votes cast
• Preparing, ordering and distributing ballots and supplies
• Preserving voter registration applications and official election documents
• Supervising election day voting
• Training election judges

County Commissioner District 1:     Gary Mikes 60%

                                                                 Kaarl Hoopes 37%

County Commissioner District 2:     Donnia Howell 68%

Senate Dist 21:  Fran Bigelow 49%

                              Matt Plichta 35%

Senate Dist 25:  John Sampson 100%

House Dist 30:  Mike Sheely 99%

House Dist 31:  Beth Humenik 100%

House Dist 32:  Paul Reimer 33%

House Dist 34:  Jodina Widhalm 100%

House Dist 35:  Brian Vande Krol 100%

House Dist 56  Kevin Priola 100%

Adams County parties hold assemblies; Democrats in disarray, results still unknown

 March 18th, 2012

Adams County Democrats are still trying to decipher the results of voting at their assembly.

Saint Patrick’s Day was a big day in politics locally as Republicans and Democrats gathered to establish the issues and candidates that will be going forward leading up to November’s elections.  While the Republicans competently completed their work, Adams County Democrats are in disarray and don’t even know the results of their assembly.

We have long railed against the inefficient and incompetent handling of vote counting in Adams County. Whether local or national elections, county officials in charge of our elections (all Democrats), have failed in this most important duty.

Now we have learned that the county Democrats can’t even complete their own assembly without running into vote counting problems.

The votes of a mere 350 delegates were apparently too much to handle for Democrats.  As the Denver Post reports this morning, 35 more ballots were cast at the assembly than there were registered delegates.  Rumors are that the state Democratic Party has been called in to bail out the locals.

The obvious question is: How the hell do you screw up an election with only 350 voters?

Whatever the exact problem is, it is certain that when their assembly was finished yesterday afternoon, Democrats did not know the results – and still do not.   The party is in complete disarray and now trying to decipher the outcome of the assembly.

While this situation is somewhat amusing, it is also troubling and sad as it continues to show the disorganization and generally incompetent governance of and by Adams County Democrats.  Accuracy in vote counting at any election is critical and part of a process that makes this nation great and the Dems can’t get it right.

Adams County voters as a whole would do well to take notice of this and remember it come November.

As an avid watcher of Adams County politics, I am a bit bummed we don’t know the results from the Democrats.  There were five candidates for two county commissioner seats and we are curious who they are moving forward with.

It is rumored disgraced Commissioner Alice Nichol failed to get enough support to move to the primaries.  If that is the case, at least the Democrats got one thing right by showing her the door.  It is ironic that her last election is tainted much like her record of service has been.

Adams County Democrats couldn't even get the address where their assembly was being held correct.

Could part of the Democrats’ problems have been caused by them sending their delegates to a non-existent address?

On their website, the Adams County Democrats said their assembly was being held at 7755 Henderson Road.  That address doesn’t even exist.

The Adams County Fairgrounds is at 9755 Henderson Road and while the error is amusing and likely just a typo, it also calls into question the Democrats’ competence in conducting something so important.

If they can’t even get the address right, no wonder they can’t count ballots or provide competent leadership.

Republicans get it done right – Field of candidates narrowed down

Adams County Republicans conducted their assembly yesterday as well and in stark contrast to the Democrats’ event, it went smoothly.

In the race for District 1 county commissioner, Gary Mikes secured 60% of the vote and Kaarl Hoopes 37%.  Both will be moving forward toward a primary showdown.

In District 2, political new comer Donnia Howell pulled off an upset by getting 68% of the votes.  Howell now has the luxury of not facing a primary opponent and can begin her campaign for the November ballot.

The Republicans will be putting forth a strong slate of candidates for county and state office.   All provide excellent alternatives to the Adams Family Democratic candidates that have failed residents for far too long.

Next in the process is the Republican primary on June 26th.  Then the real campaigning begins.

On the net:

• Denver Post: Adams County Democrats vote on next step for Alice Nichol
• http://www.tonysrants.com/thornton/adams-county-parties-hold-assemblies-democrats-in-disarray-results-still-unknown/

Adams County
Republican Assembly

 This is to say THANK YOU to every one of you for your commitment, the time and work it took to ensure success at your location and to make sure that the phone and materials chains came off without a hitch.  In case you have not heard, Adams was (by a long shot!) the first large county to report its straw-poll results.  We have had a thank you for that from State Party and even a "congratulations" from Lynn Bartels at the Denver Post!  It would not have happened without every single caucus leader and caucus manager.

 Many people contributed to the preparations.  We owe them all our thanks.  We especially owe a debt of gratitude to the Caucus Committee.  They worked from Aug or Sept, meeting nearly every week, to design and print the caucus materials, to set up and conduct caucus leader training, and to label, collate and assemble all 245 precinct packets.

The committee:

Grace Heaney, chair; Veda and Dennis Butler; Val Brown; Kirby Dunsmore; Bob McCoy; Peggy Tapey.  One of their number, Hilary House, is also the extremely talented person who designed the two on-line courses (that were taken by more than 350 people!) and learned an entirely new program in order to get the programs on line.

 On the data front, Kim Gillan – the programmer and guru for our new and developing Complete Data Management System — and Bob McCoy put their noses to the grindstone.  Kim has been working on the CDMS for a year, and is now teaching us how to transfer all the caucus information into it.  This will be the first major transfer of event/ experience-based data into the system!

 I wish I could thank by name all the people who worked behind the scenes to make Tuesday night a success.  The list would be long.  I am so proud and appreciative of the number of folks in AdCo Republicans who are stepping up to do the hard jobs involved in political party work.  We are already making a difference.

 My profound thanks.

Patty McCoy

Chair, AdCo Republicans     

Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum upended the race for the Republican nomination Tuesday, winning three states, including Colorado.

Colorado's race see-sawed throughout the night until 11 p.m., when Colorado GOP chairman Ryan Call declared Santorum the winner, beating Mitt Romney 40 percent to 35 percent with 99 percent of precincts reporting.

"This is a major upset," said Denver-based political analyst Floyd Ciruli. "Definitely, there is a new story now."

Even Romney, who easily won Colorado's Republican contest in 2008 with 60 percent of the vote, acknowledged in his speech from the Auraria campus his new challenger.

"This was a good night for Rick Santorum, but I still expect to become the nominee," the former

Massachusetts governor said. "I look forward to the contest to come."

To underscore that it wasn't his night, Romney narrowly avoided an unexpected attack from a spectator trying to throw glitter on him after he went to shake hands with those in the crowd.

Political watchers said they could feel the momentum change with Tuesday's results from across the country, where Santorum, who hadn't won since Iowa's caucuses, handily won the Missouri primary and Minnesota caucuses.

"This harkens back to 2010, when the Tea Party essentially upset the established Republican candidates for the Colorado governor and Senate races, and it clearly demonstrates that the grass roots of the party remains very conservative and is unwilling to unite behind the presumptive front-runner," Ciruli said.

Santorum played it smart, Ciruli said.

While Romney and challenger Newt Gingrich exchanged expensive blows before the Florida primary, Santorum went to Colorado and the Midwest to appeal to the conservative arm in the Republican Party. He targeted the three states that would likely have low turnouts and had large numbers of enthusiastic and conservative voters, Ciruli said.

Santorum spent much of last week in

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum waves to supporters Tuesday night in St. Charles, Mo., as his son John joins the crowd in applauding the former Pennsylvania senator as he headed to victory in three states, including Colorado. (Jeff Roberson, The Associated Press)

Republican-dominated counties in Colorado, urging Tea Party voters to upend Romney's march to the nomination.

"You have a chance here in Colorado to step up and change this race," Santorum said to an audience last week in Lone Tree. "Put a conservative in who has a chance to win."

But does he?

That is the question the Republicans will have to wrestle with, Ciruli said.

While Romney got support from many establishment Republicans in Colorado, such as former Gov. Bill Owens and Attorney General John Suthers, Santorum got support from leaders who are further to the right: former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo and former Lt. Gov. Jane Norton.

"It shows Colorado remains the model out there for the Republicans for the

challenges that they face. They are trying to find a candidate who can appeal to both the conservatives in the party and the independent voters," Ciruli said.

But on Tuesday, it was clear that the contest was between Santorum and Romney in various gymnasiums throughout the state.

Joe Francis, who went to the caucus at Green Mountain Elementary in Lakewood, said he was surprised by the results. Though he supports Ron Paul, he thought Romney would win his Jefferson County precinct. Santorum won.

"It was really unexpected, but it goes to show that you never really know how this will all play out," Francis said.

County district co-chairman Dave Ehler, said he, too, was surprised.

"I had heard something like this

Broomfield Republicans say the Pledge of Allegiance to start the meeting for the Broomfield Republicans Caucus at Broomfield High School on Tuesday. Analysts say Colorado shows the challenge the GOP faces — choosing a candidate who can appeal to moderate and conservative Republicans as well as reach out to unaffiliated voters. (David R. Jennings, The Broomfield Enterprise)

might be happening through the talks, but I didn't think it would happen. It is interesting," Ehler said.

Andrew Thenhaur was so caught up in the event he did not realize his candidate, Santorum, had won.

"You're kidding. Wow. I thought Romney won for sure. Well, now I am really happy," Thenhaur said.

At the meetings Tuesday, participants took "straw polls" to find out who was the preferred candidate.

But the process for assigning delegates doesn't stop tonight.

Attendees at the meetings also elect two precinct committee people and delegates to go to the county assembly in late March.

The final consideration for the Colorado's delegates will be made at the state convention April 14.

Denver

Volunteers count votes for the Republican caucus at the Green Mountain Elementary School gym in Lakewood on Tuesday. Some participants were surprised to hear how voting was turning out. They had assumed Mitt Romney would carry the night in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado, but Rick Santorum won all three. (Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post)

Post reporters Kurtis Lee, Kristen Leigh Painter, Matthew Rodriguez, Ryan Parker and Joe Vaccarelli contributed to this report.

Jeremy P. Meyer: 303-954-1367 orjpmeyer@denverpost.com

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