What the Gilpin County Democratic Party Stands FOR and AGAINST

We are FOR:

·       Democratic principles as written in the Constitution (including the right to peaceful protest)

·       Eliminating government waste, fraud and abuse

·       Strong but humane border policies

·       Safe & secure elections

·       Access to affordable healthcare

·       Quality, unbiased public education

·       Common sense gun laws (e.g. background checks on gun purchasers)

·       Clean air, water and development of renewable energy sources

·       Reproductive rights

·       Civil rights and ending oppression

·       Equal treatment under the law regardless of race, gender, religion, etc.

·       Community Center sustainability

·       Community Wildfire Protection Plan

·       School lunches and reducing food insecurity

·       Professional, accessible and sustainable childcare

·       Sheriff’s Office, Timberline Fire and related First Responders

·       Road maintenance and improvements

We are AGAINST:

·       The President as Czar *

·       Selectively ignoring the judicial branch *

·       Complicity of the Senate *

·       Corruption such as granting government contracts to cronies *

·       Firing Inspectors General who perform actual audits (including audits of contracts with cronies) *

·       Callously firing government employees

·       Canceling agencies, contracts and grants without regard to public health and national security concerns (NOAA, USPS, FAA, FBI, CIA, CISA, HHS, VA, USAID etc.)

·       Accessing private citizens’ IRS and Social Security data *

·       Reducing taxes for the top 5% and increasing taxes on the bottom 95%

·       Claiming to address the national debt while proposing to increase it

·       Attempting to force the surrender of Ukraine

·       Aligning with Russia and North Korea at the UN *

·       Threats to medical care for Veterans and people with limited financial resources

·       Nominating incompetent, unqualified talking heads to Cabinet positions

·       Purging competent military leadership and replacing them with loyalists *

·       Abandoning our closest allies and threatening Canada, Panama and Greenland

·       Tariffs on our largest trading partners and allies

·       Developing Gaza into a resort and displacing its citizens

·       Directing cruel, de-humanizing rhetoric towards certain members of society *

·       Extorting the press/media *

·       Threats of using the military against citizens *

* Elements of a fascist agenda

Phil Gibbs

Chair, Gilpin County Democratic Party