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Does anyone have a decent bio of Walker Stapleton? How long has he lived in Colorado? Any specifics about his business career and how he became wealthy? For someone in statewide office, he seems little known.
Stapleton moved to Colorado not long before his first run for Treasurer.
He's an investment banker with an MBA from Harvard He was born in CT, (son of diplomat Craig Roberts Stapleton),then went to school in London and at Harvard, moved to Cali and worked as an investment banker. He moved to CO in 2003. He did a lot of investing in mining and minerals. Hence the gold buggery. If you search for
Walker Stapleton + Sonomawest Holdings (his own investment company, which he moonlighted for WHILE HE WAS TREASURER of CO!!!)😱
or
his name plus Cerberus Capital (money laundering scandal), Janus, Brightline Capital, Calais Resources, Anglogols, Ashanti (last 3 are all gold mining / mineral companies) Carlyle Strategic partners
you'll come up with all kinds of strange money+ politics skullduggery.
Walker was also an integral part of the Bush Crime Family. As an investment banker who specialized in minerals, Walker may have helped advise his cousin Neil Bush who ripped off Coloradans with the Silverado fraud.
Stapleton also "worked" for US Term Limits, aka "Term Limits America"which advertised itself as the largest grass roots organization in America. TLA collected almost 300 grand in 2016, and spent (drumroll) $5000. What happened to the rest? Who knows? But it was Walker's hobbyhorse for a while.
Plus there's the 1999 DUI, in which two people were injured, Walker tried to leave the scene of the accident, and only ever served one night in jail. And the family Klan connection, his spotty work attendance, and so much more.
Stapleton is a walking scandal monkey.
Tx, mama. How is this not generally known? He has lived here only 14 years, had an iffy business career, and is now the Republican frontrunner for governor? This just seems too weird.
But it is typical Republican MO.
Oh, Walker, be proud.