By Carolyn Martin (CHEC Director of Government Relations) Don’t Fall for the Rhetoric They knew. Elected official across the state and lawmakers at the Capitol knew every property owner in Colorado would see a substantial increase in property taxes...
By Carolyn Martin (Director of Government Relations) Summer is generally the time when you start to see people hanging outside of the local grocery store or library asking you to sign a petition to get an initiative on the ballot. (Yes, it’s that...
By Ashley Vaughan “Where do our rights come from?” Scanning the audience, Mike Winther, founder of Institute for Principle Studies, invited audience participation. “We need to list every possible source of our rights.” Potential answers started...
By Carolyn Martin (CHEC Director of Government Relations) Praising God in the Storm The rising storm that began well over two decades ago with a group of multi-millionaires whose goal was to take over Colorado (read The Blueprint or watch The Rocky...
By Carolyn Martin (CHEC Director of Government Relations) Silencing Opposition There is a haunting, raw cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s song The Sound of Silence that expresses so vividly how “silence, like a cancer, grows” and produces “wells of...
by Carolyn Martin (CHEC Director of Government Relations) Are Parents Barriers? The United States remains the only nation who has not ratified the United Nations Convention of the Child (UNCRC) treaty — and for good reason. The right of...
by Carolyn Martin (CHEC Director of Government Relations) Silencing TruthGlimpses of truth, like beams of sunlight breaking through the clouds, can be seen in our culture despite attempts to silence it. At the Colorado legislature, the efforts to...
By Ashley Vaughan A phone was ringing. The shrill sound wasn’t out of the ordinary or unexpected, the phones had been ringing off their hooks for days now. Yet the 17-year-old intern at the next desk was in a quandary. She, and half of the staff,...
