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Dan “Kilo” Sallis Libertarian Party
Residence: Ken Caryl
Profession: CEO at Cynch
Education: CU Denver
Experience: Businessperson, never held public office
What are your top three priorities, if elected?
Limited government with reduced spending
Healthcare Freedom with reduced costs through deregulation & tort reform
Criminal Justice Reform through decriminalizing victimless crimes & reducing the prison population to about 25% of where it is today.
What specific actions would you support to address concerns about the rising cost of living, oil prices, high interest rates and the toll of high inflation in recent years?
Inflation is a tax created by Washington’s deficit spending and the Fed printing money to cover it. The fix is cutting spending and balancing the budget so the dollar stops losing value. On top of that, deregulation across all levels of government — plus tort reform to attack high drug prices and auto-insurance costs — lowers what families actually pay.
Should Congress play a stronger oversight role regarding the Trump administration, and if so, which matters deserve more scrutiny and why?
No
The Trump administration has pushed to open more public land to oil and gas leasing. Should more federal land in Colorado be made available for extraction, and how would you use your position to influence or instruct federal public land agencies in this decision-making process?
Yes, more public land should be made available for extraction. Energy independence is a top national security priority. I would much rather extract the energy we have here at home in a clean and ethical way than to send American soldiers overseas to die in wars over energy that we have right here in Colorado.
As the Trump administration pursues an immigration crackdown, what specific actions should Congress take legislatively to direct the nation’s immigration policy?
America benefits from immigration, and our broken system is the product of decades of bipartisan mismanagement. I support securing the border while dramatically expanding legal pathways so people can come here to work, not sneak in. Specifically: streamline and speed up legal immigration, expand work-visa programs, and create a sensible guest-worker system so labor demand is met legally. I oppose costly E-Verify mandates that turn small businesses into immigration enforcers. When legal immigration is realistic, illegal crossings fall, the border becomes manageable, and immigrants do what they’ve always done here — work, build businesses, and strengthen the economy.
Lawrence Kyle Clark, Brittany Pettersen, Tim Bennett, Joe Krzeczkowski and Susan Hall did not return the questionnaire.
