Vickie Tonkins has won another two years as leader of the El Paso County GOP. Hopefully, the next two years, as we move into the 2024 election cycle, will reflect Republican values and not partisan bickering. Kirk also hit on the Water Ordinance recently passed under a cloud of controversy and rumors of a monopoly. Humor will get us through the day and lighten the mood.
As a 17-year-old senior at Wm. J. Palmer High School, Kirk sold one of the first cartoons he ever drew to SKI Magazine.
Even though he tried, and tried and tried again, he never sold another cartoon to any magazine again—ever!
What’s worse: the ski cartoon was never published.
He tried his hand at editorial cartooning by securing an internship at the Boulder Daily Camera. His editorial cartoons have appeared in the Lamar Tri-State Daily News, the Pikes Peak Journal, the Cheyenne Edition, the Colorado Springs Sun and the Colorado Springs Independent.
Kirk submitted over a dozen concepts for comic strips. This involved drawing 24 to 42 daily and Sunday comic strips and mailing them off to newspaper syndications for their consideration.
Kirk draws over 15 original greeting cards annually for friends and family.
Kirk’s cartooning process has evolved from pen and ink drawings on Bristol board to an Apple Pencil and Procreate app on an iPad Pro. While there are no longer physical originals, this app provides the platform for diverse drawing styles. Kirk also dabbles in painting with watercolors and acrylic paints.
Kirk has supported his cartooning avocation through a variety of jobs and entrepreneurial ventures, including grocery stores, restaurants, pizzerias and his own sub shop, culminating—so far—in a 32 year career as a self-employed tilesetter. Some of his former sandwich customers at the USAFA became tile customers and some of his customers are now Maverick Observer.
Kirk Mueller, on behalf of the EPC GOP Republican Strategy Forum please accept our heartfelt appreciation for your clever depiction of our dear leader, Vickie Tonkins. We do elevate her abilities to the level crossing the Potomac for us. The addition of the selfie stick falsely suggests self-adulation, and the tricorn hat looks more like Mickey Mouse ears. I will allow you a re-do on that, because that type of insult is unbecoming. However, getting to the point of the message, I believe you are missing an important point.
i think the sentiment there implies the false assumption that we are now in a smaller pool. You have yet to realize our conservative values are shared by a majority in this county, but we are underrepresented. I believe you still hold to the idea that the Traditional Rinos in this town speak for the majority. Our doorknocking and one on one contact with the broad base of the voters has revealed El Paso County is still deep red, not Rino red. The Elite Traditionalists have hijacked the party and spoken for us for so long, many actually believe they do speak for the majority. Not so. Look at our undeniable numbers at Caucus and Assembly just a year ago. We swept the Precinct Leader and delegate positions. We soundly defeated the traditional GOP by margins of 60 percent to their 30, forcing them to petition on the ballot. We are the Full Pool. We speak for the people, the grassroots working stiffs. The America First, freedom-loving, constitutionalist Republicans are the majority.
Thank you for regarding us with your remarkable talent. The message needs work.
Candice Stutzriem
Republican Strategy Forum
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Kirk Mueller, on behalf of the EPC GOP Republican Strategy Forum please accept our heartfelt appreciation for your clever depiction of our dear leader, Vickie Tonkins. We do elevate her abilities to the level crossing the Potomac for us. The addition of the selfie stick falsely suggests self-adulation, and the tricorn hat looks more like Mickey Mouse ears. I will allow you a re-do on that, because that type of insult is unbecoming. However, getting to the point of the message, I believe you are missing an important point.
i think the sentiment there implies the false assumption that we are now in a smaller pool. You have yet to realize our conservative values are shared by a majority in this county, but we are underrepresented. I believe you still hold to the idea that the Traditional Rinos in this town speak for the majority. Our doorknocking and one on one contact with the broad base of the voters has revealed El Paso County is still deep red, not Rino red. The Elite Traditionalists have hijacked the party and spoken for us for so long, many actually believe they do speak for the majority. Not so. Look at our undeniable numbers at Caucus and Assembly just a year ago. We swept the Precinct Leader and delegate positions. We soundly defeated the traditional GOP by margins of 60 percent to their 30, forcing them to petition on the ballot. We are the Full Pool. We speak for the people, the grassroots working stiffs. The America First, freedom-loving, constitutionalist Republicans are the majority.
Thank you for regarding us with your remarkable talent. The message needs work.
Candice Stutzriem
Republican Strategy Forum