Would he be a good leader for CSU? An effective fund-raiser? A bridge builder? Progress Now is here to remind us how "effective" he was in the Senate:
"Allard has been completely ineffective as a Senator and that is the last thing CSU needs in a time of dire fiscal needs."
In 2006, Time magazine ranked Allard as one the country's five worst senators. (Time, April 14, 2007) The magazine went so far as to dub Allard as "The Invisible Man" and reported that he "almost never plays a role in major legislation." Time concluded that Allard is one of our country's "least influential senators."
The Denver Post concurred with Time, noting that Allard "squanders any influence he might have with a narrow agenda." (DP, 4/22/2006)
In his first five years in the Senate, one of Allard's top priorities was banning interstate cockfighting. Since then he has ignored the important issues and instead make his top priority interfering in other people's privacy by pushing to amend the U.S. Constitution to discriminate against gay and lesbian couples. He is also a notable denier of man's influence on climate change.
Since Allard entered office the amount of money Colorado gets backs on every dollar of federal taxes we pay, has consistently dropped, leaving our state at the bottom tier of all fifty states according to the Tax Foundation.
"Allard was even recently criticized in the media for not returning constituents' letters--months before he left office," Huttner added.
And his other nickname is Dullard.
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