Welcome to the Pitkin County Democratic Party
Here’s a very quick look at President Obama’s Accomplishments during his first term. We look forward to even more during the second term.
IMPORTANT ACTION ITEM:
“Gabby Giffords deserves a vote. The families of Newtown deserve a vote. The families of Aurora deserve a vote. The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence – they deserve a simple vote.”
- President Obama
President Obama is asking Congress to urgently introduce legislation to:
• Eliminate loopholes and require background checks for all gun sales
• Reinstate the prohibition on high-capacity magazines
• Renew and strengthen the ban on assault weapons
• Create serious penalties for gun traffickers
• Get armor-piercing bullets off the streets by prohibiting the possession and transfer of this dangerous
ammunition
• Keep 15,000 cops on the street
• Further research on gun violence
• Help schools develop and implement comprehensive emergency management plans
For more on President Obama’s Plan on Reducing Gun Violence:
http://www.barackobama.com/gun-reform
http://www.barackobama.com/gun-reform-20130117-hp#
Senator Michael Bennet: http://www.bennet.senate.gov/contact/
3. Make sure your friends and family know about the work President Obama is doing to keep our kids and communities safe: Share the President’s plan to reduce gun violence. Spread the word on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.barackobama.com%2Fgun-reform
• Require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system
• Address unnecessary legal barriers that may prevent states from making information available to the
background check system
• Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system
• Direct the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make
sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks
• Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual
before returning a seized gun
• Publish a letter from ATF to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run
background checks for private sellers
COMING EVENTS:
The Pitkin County Democrats endorsed the following candidates for the 2012 election:
- President Barack Obama for President
- Rep. Sal Pace for Congress, 3rd Congressional District
- Stephen Ludwig for CU Regent At-Large
- Jessica Garrow for CU Regent for 3rd Congressional District
- Rep. Millie Hamner for State Representative
- Sherry Caloia for District Attorney
- Steve Child for Pitkin County Commissioner
- Michael Owsley for Pitkin County Commissioner
- George Newman for Pitkin County Commissioner
Welcome to the Pitkin County Democratic Party
We support progressive principles and candidates in Pitkin County, in Colorado, and in the nation.
Democrats believe in social justice, equal rights for all, and government that serves the needs of all Americans for:
- Jobs
- Education
- Access to health care
- Energy independence
- Protection of the environment
- National security
As Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick said, “Government is what we call the things we choose to do together.”
“The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life — the sick, the needy and the handicapped.” -Hubert Horatio Humphrey
We aspire to a government that meets the highest moral test.
For more information about Democratic policies, visit the websites of the national Democratic Party, Organizing for America, and President Barack Obama.
In February, 2011 the DNC passed a resolution on protecting the two years of progress made under the leadership of President Obama. Please read this impressive list.