Lundberg Report
December 24, 2020
I was talking with a gentleman from Loveland the other day. He asked me what he could do to help with the election issues we see everywhere. My best advice may have sounded trite, but I see it as quite the opposite.
I said pray. Pray as if your future depends upon it, because it does.
At this time of the year we are reminded that God does intervene in the affairs of our world. About 2,000 years ago He came and lived among us. He came, not just to teach us, He came to save us by personally paying the price for our sins.
Last March, right before everything was locked down, I had the opportunity to literally walk where Jesus walked in Galilee. To see the world from that perspective gave me a renewed understanding that He is truly in control and engaged in every aspect of our lives.
This Christmas rest assured that even though we all have deep and troubling waters to go through, the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, as He is named in the Colorado Constitution, has not left us.
He gives us big tasks to accomplish, but He never leaves us and He never gives us more than we can carry.
I trust this Christmas you will stop to consider the true meaning and hope we celebrate at Christmas.
“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” -Luke 2:14
December 26th Update
- Will freedom be lost on our watch?The 2020 Presidential election was a disaster that must be fixed before it destroys the Republic. The courts have refused to look at the facts, but state legislative hearings have looked far enough to uncover the vast corruption that flipped the results of the vote and tens of millions of American citizens know it.
When I first heard that the U. S. Supreme Court’s timeline for proceeding with President Trump’s suit against the state of Pennsylvania stretches way beyond Inauguration Day, words like cowardly, unbelievable, inexcusable, incompetent, impotent, irresponsible, reckless and inconceivable came to mind. The Court is obviously dodging this critical issue, which should not, and ultimately cannot be ignored. As the Supreme Court of the land, they must take on the hard cases that demand resolution. Instead this court is trying to run and hide.
If there is any silver lining to this awful scenario, I wonder if the Court isn’t inadvertently realigning their position among the branches of government to a lesser role than the other branches and levels of government. I doubt if they are expecting this outcome, but if they are incapable of settling a legitimate complaint between individual states, as when they refused to hear the State of Texas complaint, or consider in a timely manner the suit presented by the sitting President of the United States, they have utterly failed to do their job.
It has been our legal tradition to rely on the courts to settle all disputes. The Constitution does not specifically authorize this ultimate authority, but that has been our practice. A more careful reading of the U. S. Constitution shows a division of that authority, with the people holding the ultimate authority, which is most directly transferred in civil government to their elected representatives in the U. S. Congress and their respective state legislatures (see Articles I, III and the Tenth Amendment).
When I was in the Colorado legislature it always troubled me that we never seriously questioned judicial decrees. We didn’t treat them as an equal branch, we treated them as kings and queens. Their word was law. Maybe now we can see them more clearly.
We are a constitutional republic. We are not ruled by kings and queens, even if they are in black robes. Now that the highest court has abandoned any semblance of justice for these really big questions, it is time for Congress to show some backbone and put off declaring a winner in the Presidential race until the significant questions of that election’s validity are firmly answered.
It is also time for state legislatures to shoulder their very real responsibility to govern. In this case it is to exercise their Constitutional duty to deliver valid electoral votes to Congress and stop playing the game of the Deep State with their current charade, operating under the color of artificial statutory deadlines. They also must throw off the shackles of any governor who somehow holds them back from meeting as the elected legislature of their state.
This republic is at a critical point in history. As President Regan reminded us, just about one generation ago: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”
Will freedom be lost on our watch?
2. Unlimited Power for the Colorado Air Quality Commission
Chapter 12, in UNMASKED2020 was written by Paul Seby, an environmental regulations attorney practising in Colorado. This chapter goes into the details of the unconstitutional overreach found in House Bill 1262, which was passed into law in the 2019 session. This bill gave extraordinary power to the Colorado Air Quality Commission to fulfill the bill’s mandate to reduce anthropogenic carbon dioxide in Colorado. The schedule required in this law are reductions of at least 26% by 2025, 50% by 2030, and 90% by 2050.
These are extraordinary targets and would become meaningless statutory aspirations if the bill had not been given some huge teeth. Those teeth are a virtual blank check to the Air Quality Commission to control whatever parts of our state they deem best.
This is an unconstitutional delegation of power to an unelected group of seven people.
We have many political battles to fight and this one is not getting much attention, but be forewarned, this is a sleeper that will spring alive with virtually unlimited power in the next few years if it is not stopped.
To learn more about this import issue here in Colorado listen to this recent podcast of the president and CEO of Colorado Concern, Mike Kopp, interviewing Mr. Paul Seby. https://coloradoconcern.com/cc-podcasts/ And check out chapter 12, in UNMASKED2020.
3. Legislature to Take a Pandemic Break in 2021 Session
Most of us may have finally figured out that life must go on, despite all of the pandemic concerns (after all only 99+% survive the virus – 99.997% if you are under 20…). However, the majority party in the legislature has determined that they can take a break for the first six weeks of the session. Kind of like what they did last spring.
They will meet on opening day, but go home shortly thereafter for at least several weeks.
I will still be keeping track of the bills that will have been introduced, but most will be on hold until at least mid-February.
For Life and Liberty!
Kevin Lundberg
fmr Colorado State Senator
executive director for Republican Study Committee of Colorado