The Daily Populous

Monday December 27th, 2021 evening edition

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Unite for Colorado also donated nearly $1.4 million to Ready Colorado, a conservative education nonprofit that has backed Republican statehouse candidates and influenced policy at the Capitol.

Together, these people represent the scaffolding of the Republican effort to influence policy, win elections and reclaim relevance in Colorado after years of defeat.

“(Unite for Colorado) has become the most important fundraising entity for conservatives and for Republicans,” said Dick Wadhams, a former chairman of the Colorado GOP.

$330,000 to Defend Colorado, a dark-money nonprofit that recently filed a campaign finance complaint against Democratic Attorney General Phil Weiser.

$200,000 to Colorado PRFRS, a Wheat Ridge dark-money nonprofit that hasn’t filed an annual report with the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office since 2018.

As Colorado Rising Action goes away, its national parent, Virginia-based America Rising, will handle any Colorado initiatives from now on.

Meanwhile, Zvonek, the 2020 director for Unite for Colorado, said it’s unclear who will lead Unite, now Advance Colorado Action, going forward. »

Michigan animal shelter inundated with parakeets in breeding plan gone wrong

Authored by theguardian.com

The Detroit Animal Welfare Group in Romeo said in a Facebook post that the small, colorful birds were dropped off on Thursday night, the Detroit News reported.

“His son said that he just wanted to breed a few of them and it got out of control,” LeBonty said.

And then you just have more babies and more babies and more babies if you don’t control the situation.”. »

Fauci says he was 'stunned' by boos from Trump supporters over booster revelation

Authored by thehill.com
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MORE was booed by his supporters when he told them during a speaking tour that he has received a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot.

Fauci told co-anchor Jonathan Karl that he hopes Trump will continue to tell people to get vaccinated.

Biden acknowledged Trump by name for publicly revealing that he had gotten a booster shot, which had elicited boos from a crowd in Dallas. »

Sarah Weddington, attorney who won Roe v Wade abortion case, dies aged 76

Authored by theguardian.com

Sarah Weddington, an attorney who argued and won the Roe v Wade supreme court case which established the right to abortion in the US, has died.

Sarah Weddington poses with a signed copy of the Roe v Wade decision in front of the US supreme court in 2005.

Represented by Weddington and Coffee, Norma McCorvey became the plaintiff known as “Jane Roe” in Roe v Wade. »

Capitol panel to investigate Trump call to Willard hotel in hours before attack

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The Guardian reported last month that Trump, according to multiple sources, called lieutenants based at the Willard hotel in Washington DC from the White House in the late hours of 5 January and sought ways to stop Biden’s certification from taking place on 6 January.

“If we get the information that we requested,” Thompson said of the select committee’s demands for records from the Trump White House and Trump aides, “those calls potentially will be reflected to the Willard hotel and whomever.”.

But a subpoena to Giuliani, the lead Trump lawyer at the Willard, is understood to be in the offing, according to a source familiar with the matter. »