What: Meeting with Congressman Jeff Hurd about devastating effects of proposed budget cuts
Who: CD-3 Residents harmed by proposed budget cuts
Where: Congressman Hurd’s Office at 743 Horizon Court, Suite 112, Grand Junction, CO
When: 10:00 a.m. on Friday, May 30, 2025
For More Information: Contact Holly Speaks, 970-901-2450, cpcginger@gmail.com
At 10:00 am on Friday, May 30, 2025, constituents of CD-3 Congressman Jeff Hurd will visit Mr. Hurd’s Grand Junction office to share their personal stories about the devastating impacts that proposed budget cuts will have on themselves and loved ones. Concerned constituents have repeatedly reached out to Jeff Hurd to schedule meetings, but all requests for meetings have been ignored by Hurd and his staff. Hurd’s constituents have responded with a postcard writing campaign. On Friday, they will deliver postcards telling stories about how people from all over Congressman’s Hurd’s Congressional District will be harmed by the budget cuts.
This gathering is organized by multiple CD-3 Indivisible groups. Indivisible (indivisible.org) states the following:
Republicans in Congress are on a mission to strip working families of $1.5 trillion in Medicaid, SNAP, and other essential programs—all to pay for more than $4.5 trillion in tax breaks for the super-rich.
Here’s just some of the terrible things in the bill:
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- Massive cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that would leave 15 million people without healthcare
- Denying food assistance to more than 11 million people
- Attacks on the trans community by banning gender affirming care from being covered by Medicaid or as an essential health benefit for ACA insurance plans
- Decimated access to reproductive healthcare by defunding Planned Parenthood and banning ACA plans from covering abortion care
- Higher costs of home utility bills because of cuts to clean energy investments
- Skyrocketing costs of college by eliminating student loan programs and slashing Pell Grant funding
Since Anne didn’t bother to report on the Hurd encounter, I decided to look it up myself
Jeff wasnt there. The Sentinel reports that Hurd’s
staff claimed they were not informed that a meeting with Hurd had been scheduled and yet…Anne’s post says this:
“This gathering was organized by multiple CD3 Indivisble groups.”
Anne says this was an opportunity to meet with Hurd…how can this be if there was no outreach? Did his staff lie?
If you guys hope to take the country back and save democracy, you might want to get more squared away.
Badhat, I am trying to figure out what you want or maybe what you need. I read comments some weeks ago that Hurd did not show up, though I don’t believe they were from Anne.
It seems that Anne, as the only poster, creates the content she chooses. There could be many reasons, but they are her reasons. She does not report to constituents, voters, shareholders, viewers, or commissions. Some events from Indivisible, the Democratic Socialists, and other groups plan meetings. Sometimes they cancel, or pivot to a food drive. I don’t know, I am not a member of any. If you had interest in an Indivisible event, then reach out to them.
I am happy to discuss issues with you or anyone. And you are right, maybe I should have just stopped commenting months ago. ‘ Don’t announce, just bounce’ they say.
So what… if we want to save democracy and get the country back, we need to get squared away? Does that include me, who does not even agree with these groups missions? Hmmm, where have I heard these warnings from before?
I like to follow up
That is my nature. I read something in one place and look for another source to see what they have to say. That’s how I found out that Hurd’s staff said they didn’t know about a meeting and yet Anne said this would be an opportunity to meet with Hurd. It’s a very, very small thing but it goes to credibility.
Just like Anne announced that Hurd had voted against not deporting children if they are sick. (I think that’s pretty accurate). What really happened was the Jayampal had wanted some language added to something a committee was discussing and the committee voted against it because the law for that was already in place. It’s typical gotcha politics and the headline is far from the truth…but that doesn’t matter because the headline stands in some people’s minds and that’s the business Anne is in…if it reflects badly on a republican.
The story in the most recent case is that Hurd didn’t show up. BillW reported that.
After reading your comment about the outbreak of measles being attributable to the un-vaxed, I did a dive into whether that was true. I learned a lot of things. One is that there have been nearly one thousand measles outbreaks in the last ten years and that the only people who are truly immune are those who have had the measels. This seems like a bold claim which I’ll continue to investigate.
The truth always seems to lie way below the headline.
As for the groups you mentioned…I have come to believe they are chiefly interested in keeping people riled up until the midterms, so they’ll vote the Republicans out…and then what? Unspecified at this time but it will be much better.
“don’t announce, just bounce”
Very clever mostly because no one really cares either way.
PS…I didn’t mean that no one cares about you. It’s just true that we in the comment sections aren’t important.
I actually, enjoy reading what you write (except for the “way more knowledgeable than you”
stuff)
🙂
Well, she writes to her base, which does not require follow-up. But I do need to remind you that Trump is a convicted felon and sex offender.
I get it, Badhat. Like many, you don’t like to be talked down to. As an engineer, I am more thick skinned with colleagues, and I don’t temper myself enough with others. I don’t intend to do that to you, but I came off that way regarding your Soviet and now Putin defense. And also on the economic ruin caused by Trump’s tariffs, taxation, and debt policies. In this regard, Musk was the best man brought to any government in a century. At least he took a shot at chipping away at the deep state.
I am encouraged. It seems that it might be easier to bring a MAGA back to the center than it will be to bring a Democratic Socialist back to the center. Democrats might take the House in the midterm, but it won’t be from these far-left fringe groups. And it looks like even a Trump train wreck will not prevent the Republicans from keeping the Presidency. I just hope it is not JD Vance. I kind of like Condoleeza Rice for president. I wonder if she would return my email?
Keep the faith, keep watching Rogan, and fact check the far right as much as you do the far left.
I don’t watch Rogan only because I don’t want to pay for the privilege.
Every time I start a project and explain it to my husband, he tells me why it won’t work. He was in R and D for years and tells me that was his role. I have learned to ignore him and go ahead anyway. Are you surprised?
I don’t love Putin but I am trying to learn enough to understand. Conventional warfare is out of the question these days, so maybe there’s a better way.
But it’s really hard to have empathy for Islam.
And as far as the Trump train wreck…remains to be seen. He has a lot of good people around him who realize this may be their last chance and don’t want to fail.
Mr. Hurd was a no-show. As if Hurd’s vote, to take Medicaid and SNAP food funds away from hundreds of thousands of Coloradans, was no big thing. We never learned why this cruel action was needed.
I was just joking. Don’t be so defensive.
You have bought the rhetoric about the bill but ACA was about a whole lot more than taxing tanning beds and providing space for nursing mothers.
It was about the government telling us what type of insurance we had to have. They kinda hid that. And dont forget about getting to keep your doctor if you like your doctor. Obama got the lie of the year award for that one…from a very friendly press.
harry, nothing in the ACA mandated having to change doctors. What Obama said was true at the time he said it. The insurance companies made changes that resulted in customers having to change doctors, but conservative media announced that Obama lied, and the guillible fools like you swallowed it without questioning it.
No surprise at all here.
“PolitiFact named President Obama’s statement, “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it,” as the “Lie of the Year” for 2013, citing that it was impossible to keep and significantly damaged his credibility. This claim was made as millions of Americans received cancellation letters for their health plans due to the Affordable Care Act’s regulations.”
You should have read the rest of the quote. “This stands in stark contrast to its October 9, 2008 statement that Obama’s “description of his plan is accurate, and we rate his statement True.” At the time he said it, there was nothing in the ACA that would have mandated having to change doctors.
So now you’re picking nits.
Unsurprising.
But to be fair, something you aren’t familiar with, Obama probably didn’t read the bill so he could know what was in it.
After ACA passed, Kathleen Sibelius went to work implementing it. No one really knew what that would entail, but it resulted in ballooning the Medicaid rolls. Oooops!
Now the dems are screaming about cuts to Medicaid, not aware of how the program has grow out of control, for the reasons I mention above.
The price of medical care has never been addressed and the ACA certainly made it higher. No one has come up with a good solution to this.
Congress and the president don’t worry about the details. They think in soundbites and we swallow them. They leave the details to the bureaucrats and never look back.
This system really sucks and there’s no end in sight. We just keep slouching towards bethlehem.
I hope Hurd will hear what the concerns of the community are and will vote for us. the CO delegation must oppose this harmful legislation which includes a provision to defund the judiciary from placing injunctions against the executive.
Thanks for the heads up. I (we) will be there. I can’t believe Rep. Hurd will show up.
So many commenters have spoken against the MAGA/DOGE attack on our nation. Rep. Hurd is one of their foot soldiers.
Let us speak to Mr. Hurd…if he makes it to his office!
He won’t if he’s smart. He really doesn’t have to romance voters like you if CD3 remains republican.
He also knows, just like the last time, you won’t be there to really discuss the bill. You’ll have your “indivisible” talking points and will shout him down if he tries to explain you may be misinformed.
He doesn’t come close to looking like a fighter.
Glad you mentioned “convicted felon and sex abuser” this time.
Hurd already voted for the bill, but you can yell at him like the last time. I wonder if he’ll actually show up. Even if he doesn’t it’ll make a great press release.
Poor Jeff.
It’s not just a “budget bill” – it also gives trump the ability to eliminate the judiciary, delay or cancel elections, ignore SCOTUS rulings. A complete rewrite of laws, Constitution diluted or destroyed.
Yes, this. At least one GOP house member admitted he didn’t know about this because he hadn’t read the whole bill. SMH.
“You have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it”
Nancy Pelosi…
regarding ACA
Nice whataboutism. Those damn sneaky Dems hiding provisions in the ACA, like a tax on tanning beds and making workplaces provide space for nursing mothers. What were they thinking, they could have been hiding provisions to consolidate executive power.
PS. I forgot another whopper…”if you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance”
But in reality the government demanded that you to have a certian kind of insurance with certian coverage and all of a sudden expensive insurance became unaffordable to people who didnt have benefits with their jobs. It also cost employers. So some states (coerced by the feds) had to set up exchanges for affordable approved insurance. Who paid for that…the tanning bed tax?
It’s been a while since I’ve thought about any.of this, but from what I remember, some of the costs got rolled into Medicaid.
Suffice it to say, we have a lot of problems in this country which will never be solved. I don’t know what will help the situation, but demonizing Jeff Hurd and lionizing your side certainly won’t.