What are your top three priorities for the next legislative session?
Reduce crime, support law enforcement, and empower citizens to build positive relationships with law enforcement to improve the safety of their communities.
Reduce the cost of living by supporting domestic energy production, agriculture, and the free market.
Protect parental rights, especially in educational choice and healthcare.
The chamber may see split Democrat-Republican control next year. On what issues do you see common ground with the opposite party?
Reducing crime, lowering the cost of living, and ensuring students in Colorado get a world class education that focuses on academics such as reading, writing, science, math, and American history.
What perspective or background would you bring to the chamber that is currently missing?
With 22 combined years of experience working with our communities on a daily basis, I understand how well-meaning but short-sighted laws often create unintended problems. I look forward to bringing real world experience to the legislature. Whether it’s a discussion about mental health, affordability, community safety, the business environment, homelessness, supporting victims of crime, or a whole host of other issues, my diverse experiences will enable me to lend a practical, real-world perspective to legislative discussions and ensure that solutions actually fix problems without creating dozens of new ones.
What more can the state legislature do to ease housing costs across Colorado?
Without any balance, the state has aggressively pursued tax-and-regulate policies that severely erode the housing industry’s ability to meet current demand. I’ve met with dozens of citizens who work in the housing sector, and their biggest complaint is the massive increase in regulatory burden imposed by short-sighted legislation such as SB21-173, HB22-1362, and many others. Reducing regulation, taxes, and fees will enable the free market to improve housing supply, and streamline the ability of consumers to actually access that housing.
Do you support the current law on fentanyl possession and resources for treatment?
As a former police officer, sergeant, and lieutenant who has responded to dozens of overdose deaths, the current law regarding fentanyl is effectively worthless. Full of loopholes, it enables international criminals to victimize vulnerable members of our communities without consequences. I have personally seen that resources for mental health, substance abuse, and developmentally disabled individuals are sorely lacking. Worse, these limited resources often don’t trickle down to the people who need them.
What are your top three priorities for the next legislative session?
Continue strengthening the whole of Colorado education. Creating a thriving economy by supporting business, technology, and infrastructure. Protecting families and their ability to make personal decisions.
The chamber may see split Democrat-Republican control next year. On what issues do you see common ground with the opposite party?
I believe the two parties can work together the most on infrastructure and water issues. In addition, I can work across party lines on oil/ natural gas and agriculture issues.
What perspective or background would you bring to the chamber that is currently missing?
I bring with me 40+ years of living Colorado experience and history. I bring the history of my great-great-grandparents who founded this state. My personal experience in agriculture, education, and as a caregiver to aging grandparents and parents. My most important experience is that I know what it is like to work three jobs and still not meet monthly ends. I will carry these experiences, history, and empathy into the State House.
What more can the state legislature do to ease housing costs across Colorado?
One major thing we can do is ensure a living wage for all Colorado workers.
Do you support the current law on fentanyl possession and resources for treatment?
What are your top three priorities for the next legislative session?
1. Restore 2nd Amendment rights
2. Work to reduce and eliminate taxes wherever possible
3. Reduce the size and scope of state government
The chamber may see split Democrat-Republican control next year. On what issues do you see common ground with the opposite party?
What perspective or background would you bring to the chamber that is currently missing?
What more can the state legislature do to ease housing costs across Colorado?
Do you support the current law on fentanyl possession and resources for treatment?
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.
