What are your top three priorities for the next legislative session?
Remove and prevent unconstitutional legislation and spending, which increase government power and erode individual liberty.
Stop taking taxpayer money and giving it away to their radical environmental “green industry” investors. Open up our oil and gas resources to free-market businesses to expand energy to citizens at an affordable price.
Fight for affordable healthcare. Government policies drive up costs and too often force people to choose between seeking medical care or affording food, utilities and housing.
The chamber may see split Democrat-Republican control next year. On what issues do you see common ground with the opposite party?
Fighting for affordable healthcare so people aren’t forced to choose between paying the hospital bill, or food, utilities and housing.
Decreasing energy costs so people don’t need to choose between keeping the lights on and eating.
Ensuring better educational outcomes by allowing options outside of failing school systems and putting educational decisions back in the hands of parents and local school boards.
What perspective or background would you bring to the chamber that is currently missing?
As a 30-year AF veteran with 20+ years in commercial aviation and various leadership roles, I know the chamber needs more real-world experience and leadership that focuses on reestablishing individual liberty and not on expanding government.
Government is too big and sucks too much of our money out of our economy while taking more of our freedoms and padding the pockets of special interests. We need servant leaders who will represent the taxpayers, focus on securing their rights, and return the power to the individual, instead of transferring it to government and industry.
What more can the state legislature do to ease housing costs across Colorado?
Stop inflationary spending that devalues income while increasing costs.
Stop removing money from the economy through irresponsible programs and taxation.
End unsustainable transition to “green” energy which will increase costs and do nothing for climate, while damaging the environment.
Stop punishing property owners by making it easier to evict criminal squatters while removing rent control policies that end up harming people who seek a place to live.
Do you support the current law on fentanyl possession and resources for treatment?
Fentanyl deaths increased 540% in three years. 1g can kill 500 people, creating the possibility of a mass-casualty event from possession of even a small amount. Putting a limiting qualifier just encourages gamesmanship and tying up expensive testing facilities.
Blake Garner and Michael Giallombardo have not returned the questionnaire.
How candidate order was determined: A lot drawing was held at the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office on Aug. 3 to determine the general election ballot order for major and minor party candidates. Colorado law (1-5-404, C.R.S.) requires that candidates are ordered on the ballot in three tiers: major party candidates followed by minor party candidates followed by unaffiliated candidates. Within each tier, the candidates are ordered by a lot drawing with the exception of the office of Governor and Lt. Governor, which are ordered by the last name of the gubernatorial candidate.
