Claim: Colorado pot campaigner seeks 'sanctuary' status for mountain town.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Dave Williams (Colorado politician)
text: their family has roots going back to Mexico and Southern California. During the first year of his first term (2017), Williams introduced a bill (HB17-1134) titled the "Colorado Politician Accountability Act". The bill was designed to crack down on sanctuary cities by allowing public officials of sanctuary cities who had not sought to overturn the local sanctuary law to be sued by citizens if an illegal alien committed a crime, and also by making elected officials of sanctuary jurisdictions liable to penalties for "rendering assistance to an illegal alien". The bill was defeated in the House but Williams and two

title: Sal Pace
text: Pueblo repeal effort say retail marijuana shops and farms have brought increased vagrancy, crime, and an undesirable reputation as the pot capital of southern Colorado...County Commissioner Sal Pace, the chief opponent of the ballot effort, likes that his community is seen as a center for marijuana innovation." Ultimately, prop 200 was defeated by a 57-43 margin. Pace ran for Colorado's 46th House District. He won the nomination at the Pueblo County Assembly, keeping his only opponent off the ballot, while receiving greater than 70% of the delegate vote. Pace faced no opposition in the August Democratic primary, or the November

title: Kayvan Khalatbari
text: Silver State Relief was the first medical marijuana dispensary in the state of Nevada to open when it launched on July 31, 2015 in Sparks, Nevada. Silver State worked with Khalatbari as a consultant during the development phases, and earned the highest score from the state licensure board. On Valentine’s Day 2017, Kayvan Khalatbari officially announced his candidacy for the 2019 Denver Mayoral election. Khalatbari will run on a platform aimed at improving conditions for the homeless, increasing police accountability, halting the I-70 expansion, developing DIY artist spaces, establishing Denver as a sanctuary city, and encouraging increased civic engagement by

title: Richard Lamm
text: its hosting. Innsbruck, Austria replaced Denver as the host. Lamm's successful effort made him known statewide. Lamm ran for Governor of Colorado in 1974 on a platform to limit growth, and was elected. Reacting to the high cost of campaigning, he had walked the state in his campaign. One of his acts as governor was designating musician John Denver as the Poet Laureate of Colorado. As candidate and then governor, Lamm promised for environmental reasons to "drive a silver stake" through plans to build Interstate 470, a proposed circumferential highway around the southwest part of the Denver Metropolitan Area. However,

title: Colorado State Highway 82
text: Roaring Fork to the east of the town. At the end of the decade, the Independence Pass Foundation (IPF) was formally incorporated in Aspen. Its founder, environmental activist Bob Lewis, had been organizing efforts to revegetate the slopes alongside Highway 82 going up to the pass, in order to repair damage that had been done the road's construction. In cooperation with the Highway Department, the U.S. Forest Service and the county, the IPF rebuilt a curve along the road near the Weller Lake trailhead that year. Safety improvements continued in the 1990s. A five-mile (8 km) stretch just west of

title: Breckenridge, Colorado
text: Hill Road. In the 50-plus years since, Breckenridge Ski Resort gradually expanded onto Peak 9 and Peak 10 on the south end of town, and Peak 7 and Peak 6 to the northwest of town. On November 3, 2009, voters passed ballot measure 2F by a nearly 3 to 1 margin (73%), which legalized marijuana possession for adults. The measure allows possession of up to an ounce of marijuana and also decriminalizes the possession of marijuana-related paraphernalia. Possession became legal January 1, 2010. Possession was still illegal by state law, however, until the passage of Colorado Amendment 64 in 2012.

title: Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell
text: regarding cleanup requirements and other environmental terms and conditions associated with the transfer to PuebloPlex of approximately 16,000 acres of property within the former U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot in Pueblo, Colorado. In 2017, the city and county of Denver announced it would begin a 100-year contract with the National Western Center, and the firm was involved as council in developing and negotiating the governance structure and framework agreement for expanding and redeveloping the site. The firm represented Walking Mountains Science Center in its conveyance of a conservation easement to the Eagle Valley Land Trust in Edwards, Colorado, funded in

title: Mountain Justice (organization)
text: mining practice. Residents of Coal River Valley and their allies delivered a letter to West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin, urging him to declare a state of emergency and rescind permits for the Bee Tree mountaintop removal mine on Coal River. The letter was signed by thirteen residents and accompanied by nine personal statements, a cross-section image of the neighboring Brushy Fork sludge impoundment and underground mines below, and an aerial image of the impoundment. Seven people sat in Manchin's antechamber and refused to leave at the office's closing time; the seven were arrested with misdemeanors for trespassing and obstruction. Four

title: Aspen, Colorado
text: President Clinton to restrict US immigration. Aspen residents cited concerns about the environmental impacts of increased immigration on their community, including urban and suburban sprawl, pollution from the older automobiles typically driven by immigrants, and litter accumulating in the mountains attributable to the increasing population. The impetus for the resolution was the increasing number of trailer parks that housed the migrant workers employed locally in the service sector and ski industry. The parks were perceived to be degrading to the town's image, property values, and environment. The move was led by Terry Paulson, an Aspen City Council member, and supported

title: Hildale, Utah
text: v. Colorado City, Town of et al" ruled that the towns of Colorado City and Hildale had discriminated against Ronald and Jinjer Cooke because they were not members of the FLDS Church. The Cookes were awarded $5.2 million for "religious discrimination". The Cooke family moved to the Short Creek area in 2008 but were refused access to utilities by the towns of Colorado City and Hildale. As a result of the ruling, Arizona's Attorney General Tom Horne issued a press release stating that he "wants to eradicate discrimination in two polygamous towns" and believes that the court ruling will give

title: Holly, Colorado
text: from his birthplace of Garden City, Kansas. Romer is also a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and a longtime supporter of U.S. President Bill Clinton. Holly, Colorado The Town of Holly is a statutory town in Prowers County in southeastern Colorado, United States, near the Kansas border. Located four miles (6 km) from the Kansas border at an elevation of , Holly is the lowest elevation town in Colorado. The population was 1,048 at the 2000 census. Holly was settled as a ranching community, and the town was incorporated in 1903. The town was named for Hiram S.

title: Pam Hemminger
text: the 2016 presidential election. As Chapel Hill is not registered as a sanctuary city, it would not be affected by Executive Order 13768, which cut federal grants to such cities; on the matter, Hemminger said, "we just have a community value that says, 'Yes, we're open for everyone.'" The town council passed a resolution in June 2017 keeping a commitment to Chapel Hill's global-warming goals as part of the Paris Agreement. Hemminger spoke in defense of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals in September 2017 and signed a petition against the Clean Power Plan's repeal in January 2018. "To ignore climate

title: Hunter S. Thompson
text: 1970, Thompson ran for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado, as part of a group of citizens running for local offices on the "Freak Power" ticket. The platform included promoting the decriminalization of drugs (for personal use only, not trafficking, as he disapproved of profiteering), tearing up the streets and turning them into grassy pedestrian malls, banning any building so tall as to obscure the view of the mountains, disarming all police forces, and renaming Aspen "Fat City" to deter investors. Thompson, having shaved his head, referred to the crew cut-wearing Republican candidate as "my long-haired opponent." With polls showing him

title: Scouting in Colorado
text: and valleys covered by a mix of Ponderosa pine forests, high-altitude grasslands, and wetland vegetation along the lake and stream. In the 2012 Springer Wildfire, the camp was evacuated, and parts of the camp were used by firefighters as staging and defensible spaces. In July 2005, Pikes Peak Council moved from its four-decade home downtown to a temporary location in northeast Colorado Springs until the council's new headquarters at the intersection of I-25 and Fillmore Street was finished in July 2008, to account for the demographic and geographic shift of Colorado Springs. The vacated original building became the home of

title: Michael Hancock (Colorado politician)
text: his oppositional positions towards the city's homeless residents, including threats from Anonymous in 2016 to expose alleged ties to an escort service. Political activists Occupy Denver opposed legislation he signed in 2012 banning unauthorized camping in 2012; critics said it criminalized homelessness. In 2016, following a speech on poverty and hope through low-income housing, his police force cracked down on the residents, which Denver Homeless Out Loud livestreamed officials partaking in sweeps. The ACLU of Colorado issued oppositional statements toward the mayor's office for the misuse of appropriations designed to help the homeless, instead used to evict them. As winter

title: Mountain Justice (organization)
text: and coal-fired power plants. The action was the third bluegrass-themed protest in a week in which Action Jackson, an Appalachian string band from East Tennessee staged a traditional fiddle and banjo jam inside a Bank of America branch while others demonstrated in opposition to Bank of America's investments in coal. On March 28, 2008, activists participating in Mountain Justice Spring Break occupied the lobby of AMP-Ohio's headquarters in Columbus, Ohio, and demanded a meeting with AMP's CEO Marc Gerken. Several people stated their intention to conduct a sit-in in the office if their demands weren't met; about 40 people protested

title: Christine Scanlan
text: Tourism Office Board of Directors. For her first legislative session, in 2008, Scanlan was appointed to the House Agriculture, Livestock and Natural Resources Committee and the House Transportation and Energy Committee. Scanlan has pressed for extension of the Colorado Forest Restoration Act, a program providing funding to local groups to mitigate forest damage and wildfire danger brought about by expanding bark beetle infestations in Colorado, and is sponsoring, with Sen. Gibbs, a measure to expand the program. In September 2008 Scanlan led a delegation of Summit County officials to Washington, D.C. to lobby for additional resources to combat bark beetle

title: Cragmor, Colorado
text: with tuberculosis. About ten years later, the Navajo patients were transferred elsewhere. Bungalows were built for patients and physicians of the Cragmor Sanatorium in an area named Cragmor Village. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places by 2013 for its historical significance during the sanatoria era and because it is threatened by plans for expansion of the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) campus. By the 1950s, coal was no longer mined in the area and land was developed for the construction of about 3,500 houses, which was completed in the early 1960s. Then, the initial instances

title: Colorado Amendment 64
text: won by just 2% favored by only 5,000 out of more than 200,000 ballots cast. Relying on the local option clause in the amendment, the city council then voted 5-4 not to permit retail shops in the city. Some council members expressed concern over the effect pot shops would have on existing businesses, as well as on local military bases. Current mayor John Suthers, elected in May 2015, supports the ban on pot shops; his opponent in the mayoral election supported recreational pot shops as a way to increase city tax collections. Suthers, a former Colorado Attorney General, has long

title: Helen Klanderud
text: committing to a clean energy future", the World Wildlife Fund awarded Aspen the 2005 Power Switch! Pioneer award. In June 2005, Klanderud represented Aspen at the "Sundance Summit: A Mayors Gathering on Climate Protection," held in Salt Lake City, which examined ways that cities could cut and offset carbon emissions. Aspen was the smallest municipality to be invited to the three-day summit, which included major U.S. cities like Seattle and Chicago. Three Colorado mayors were invited to the Sundance Summit on Climate Protection, including Klanderud, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, and Boulder Mayor Mark Ruzzin. Later that same month, Mayor Klanderud