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TRANSPORTATION! Someone needs to educate him concerning metro area priorities. Perhaps someone could send him the MISs and EISs that are in progress, along with the current DRCOG TIP.
You’re boring the shit out of us, Bob. Do something wacky.
My favorite show starts again tonight, so I’d like to be the first to suggest a dance-off between Bill and his wife and Bob and Claudia. Who do you think will win, and what will they dance to?
That should be wacky enough to make this race finally interesting.
Don’t forget, we have the “dancing candidate” running against them…….
How about “Who’s Cheatin’ Who” by Alan Jackson
Where the hell is he on energy??? I can only guess — because of the absence of a position — that it will be the continuing policy of the Colorado Republican Party to encourage extraction of fossil resources at all costs — and continue to fight any thoughtful legislation that might bring solar resources from the San Luis Valley and wind resources from the eastern plains into a outlet near you — and biofuels from all over the state into your neighborhood pump. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Anyone who has been watching the Ritter energy ads on TV now knows there is a clear choice if your concern is where we are headed with an energy policy in this state…and anyone who thinks you can decouple 21st century water policy in this state from 21st century energy policy is spending a lot of time under a rock.
lets continue to be dependant on oil from the mid-east and base all of our foreign policy and national defense priorities on keeping a flow of oil from the mid-east; making sure that the 7 (or is it now fewer) sisters maintain profits; that Halliburton still makes money; that the Saud family stays in control of Saudi Arabia; and that American blood and money is used to ensure high profit margins for the friends of the Bushes. I am sure that BWB supports this proposition.
Forget providing income and economic gain to the eastern plains (where it is desperatley needed) through development of bio-fuels and wind energy; solar energy from the San Luis Valley; etc.
look at western colorado: we are trying to purge our reliance on foreign oil by rapidly producing OIL (not renewables) DOMESTICALLY, regardless of the impacts. frankly, the next governor must be able to deal with the feds and mitigate the impacts of this development that is occuring right now.
while renewables are important, salvaging the west slope from energy development is the more pressing issue. unfortunately, ritter doesnt say much about that, and ends up simply being not as bad as BB. oh well.
by 20% ould save more crude oil than is under all of the western slope. A couple other problems with the oil shale issue: the energy it’s going to take to A) freeze, then B) boil the oil from the shale far exceeds the energy in the recovered oil. There is also talk among the REA community that the Generation and Transmission Association (Tri-State G&T) doesn’t presently have the capacity to provide the needed increases in power the companies need to accomplish this. So their response? They’re proposing two coal plants in Kansas to meet the demand and then building a large transmission line from SW Kansas back into the Front Range at a cost (over a period of time) somewhere in the $8 billion range. I hear there are a lot of their REA’s that aren’t particulary thrilled about obligating themselves to these debt obligations to provide for the industrial load growth of a handful of oil and gas companies – who as we’ve seen before on the western slope tend to “come and go”. Don’t get me wrong — I am not a “stop the drilling at all costs” person — but let’s look at what we’re doing with our resources as a life-cycle issue and decide whether or not we’re just dumber than a box of rocks about how we’re extracting them…and ultimately who is really bearing the burden of it’s extraction. We have a track record in this state (and the nation) of privatizing the profits and socializing the costs when it’s convenient (and profitable) for the powers that be.
where did you come from, SURC? yorue right on with most of your comments.
I come from a long line of Republicans … who actually CARE about rural Colorado 🙂
I must echo cctiger’s comments. You are well researched, rational, and above all a free thinker. Both sides of the aisle need more people like you.
I think I speak for a growing number of Republicans when I say that we’ve had it — had it being called a RINO because we don’t mindlessly graze the meadow of rhetoric while Rome burns; and REALLY sick and tired of thinking that it’s “our way or the highway”. There are GREAT people on both sides of the aisle and we’re not going to solve our problems at hand with the same thinking that created them. Beer’s on me if you can find me!
i mean, extremism provides leadership! we cant be seen talking to anyone on the other side of the aisle!!! america needs more wingnuts.
That’s dangerous new ground for a member of Congress, don’t you think?
While he’s off on the accountability tangent, will somebody please ask him about the DeLay money?
http://www.dccc.org/…
Glad to hear BWB expects the voters to hold him accountable. Governor Ritter it is, then.
Has anyone seen this sophmoric article written by the Beauprez camp? In case BWB hasn’t been keeping track of the next Governor of Colorado — he has visited EVERY county in this state over the past year and a half. He is also the ONLY one talking about renewable energy development — which can reinvigorate many of the struggling economies in rural Colorado. In case the good congressman hasn’t figured this out — the “Denver Duo” has been busy talking about how he would connect the production of the renewable energy —- to the freaking demand on the Front Range. (a/k/a/ “Denver”). It’s simple economics Mr. Banker — you need a producer and you need a consumer to consummate a transaction — Rural Colorado (producer) Urban Colorado (consumer). Am I clear enough????
‘Denver Duo’ to Leave City Limits
Ritter-O’Brien expected to educate Western Colorado about dire needs of Denver
September 8 , 2006
GRAND JUNCTION, CO – The Democrat “Denver Duo”–gubernatorial candidates Bill Ritter and Barbara O’Brien–are expected to temporarily, and trepiditiously, leave the City and County of Denver today.
Ritter and O’Brien are scheduled to depart their Downtown Denver offices and attend the fall meeting of Club 20 in Grand Junction today and tomorrow, where the Denver Duo will have the opportunity to educate Western Slope voters about the many concerns and challenges facing the City and County of Denver.
Ritter served as Denver’s District Attorney for over a decade, where he became intimately familiar with the needs of Colorado’s capital city.
The Denver Duo were welcomed to the Western Slope by Beauprez running mate, Mesa County Commissioner Janet Rowland.
“We’re pleased they would take time out of what must be very fast-paced, big city schedules to come visit the rest of Colorado,” said Rowland.
“I hope someone warned them that the Light Rail doesn’t run all the way to Grand Junction,” said Mesa County Commissioner and Beauprez running mate Janet Rowland. “I’d hate to have them lost in LoDo when they could be parading around the Western Slope in rural outfits.”
Wasn’t Beauprez on the wrong side of an issue regarding west slope water recently? I thought the initiative that he backed would have allowed Denver and Front Range communities to, in effect, condemn west slope water and bring it to our side of the mountain.
that the Colorado Rural Electric Association has just put money into the Beauprez coffers and NOT Ritter’s. Apparently they are more interested in “business as usual” and keeping Wyoming and Kansas coal plants in business than developing the wind and solar resources that we have right here in our back yard. The coal and gas industry has had plenty of political cover for the past 8 years and apparently they are quite concerned that a “Governor Ritter” might actually make them look at business models they’d rather not engage in –like meeting the legislative intents of Amendment 37.
CREA is contributing to one candidate and not the other? Is that really right? Where are you getting your information? Given that their membership has both R’s and D’s in it — and that most of the counties in rural Colorado were very close on the Amendment 37 vote — this just smells.
This is only the tip of the iceberg (or what would be the tip of the iceberg if global warming hadn’t melted it! HA!) As Paul Harvey says, “stand by….for news”.
Wasn’t it CREA that just “donated” $100,000 to that guy in Virgina that claimed to be the State Climatologist (until the VA Governor ordered him to stop using the title last week)who is “producing” a report that proves that human activity and coal plants are not the cause of global warming?
That was the Intermountain Rural Electric Association (IREA) The board of directors approved the $100,000 “gift” to this guy back in February and just “forgot” to tell our coop membership base. The story was in the Denver papers last month. Word within our membership is that our CEO Lewandowski has been making the circuit in Colorado trying to get other REA’s to pony up more money.
ref A was a way for money to be raised for water projects in Colorado. one side said it was to ensure that coloradoans use the water instead of having water we have a right to go on down the river to las vegas and california. the other side pointed out that the money “created” by ref A was not earmarked to any water project, and therefore feared another, bigger intermountain transfer (west slopers were predominantly on this side). another race where this came up was salazar-walcher. to many in rural areas water takes precedence over political affiliation.
BB claims that he was trying to get the Ref A money specifically earmarked instead of having a big gray area and that is why he was for it: so he could fight for the proper wording. ritter is using it as the one way to set himself apart from BB on water.
otherwise, they agree on everything!!! neither have innovative water use ideas (water banking, fallowing, or leaving some of the conserved water for the environment as in-stream flows instead of providing for more growth). they just preach water conservation endlessly, which is a safe political position but nothing truly helpful in the long run as far as Colorado’s health is concerned (both economic and environmental).
in this state concerning water is that it is always trumped by our water laws. Nothing innovative is likely to happen until someone wants to address this — and even if they (the legislature or the governor) did so it would likely result in years of litigation. Fallowing, in-stream flows for conservation, banking, etc. are all GREAT and NECESSARY solutions – just unlikely to happen on any large scale given the legal realities we face and the money that can be made by those holding senior water rights to do something else with them. If we as a state would establish a 21st century water conservation fund to acquire those rights with SUFFICIENT money to pull off a long-range plan then we might just turn this ship around — but then, that would mean raising someone’s taxes — and god forbid if we did that. Let’s “stay the course”.
BWB supported Ref A.
There were some billboards and radio ads reminding people of BWB’s stand on Ref A, running in Grand Junction at the time of Club 20 debate.
I was seriously giggling audibly when I first read that little news snippit. It reads like a bad article from the Onion. Oh man, beastiality’s zingers are priceless too. Way to go BWB, you have surely sunk the ship that is the Denver Duo.
They post things like this on their website and then want us to take them seriously about their ability to lead this state?
This attempt to the divide the state is mind boggling. It is also tiring. I admit, I am an urbanite, or rather a suburbanite, but I dont see how trying to negate where one lives will work in this day and age. The rhetoric is old. They need some new lines.
Rural Colorado needs Urban Colorado as a market — whether it’s food or energy. Let’s get real and put an end to these third grade attempts at trying to divide the very people that need to be united.
Rowland on the shoulder and discreetly tell her she’s running for Lieutenant Governor of Colorado and not 6th grade class president.
It’s the Republican way. You’re either with ’em or you’re against ’em. You either share their religious beliefs or you’re a satan lover. You either support the war in Iraq or you’re a terrorist sympathizer. You’re either a good ol’ boy or you’re a city slicker.
It works for them; that’s why they do it.
I think that that line of thinking is beginning to fail. People are fed up with being one or the other, and that will be shown in the polls come november. I think a lot of people will self identify this election as disaffected republicans mostly, but also democrats to a certain degree, who are tired of being framed by an issue. For example, I think a lot of people, especially now, were pro fighting in afghanistan, but not so keen on Iraq. Numerous polls show that people are religious in this country, but they are beginning, baby steps beginning, to get over gay marriage in the form of civil unions. It takes time but this hard push to the right is beginning to bring people back to the center.
I agree with you completely. I think voters are beginning to see that not all issues are black and white and there’s plenty of gray area to consider. I stand firmly in the middle because with many issues I see value to *some* of what both sides believe.
Did I miss something here? Isn’t this a copy of what Ritter pledged a year ago? Is Congressman Beauprez signing on to Mr. Ritter’s pledge?
is here:
http://coloradopols….
Pretty vapid campaign so far, don’t you think?