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As a lifelong (23 years) resident of Jefferson County, I am disappointed in who our county GOP has given blessing to run in HD23. I know this blog knows Edgar Johansson is a carpet bagger who moved to the district only days before the deadline to file for candidacy but now he's having a fundraiser hosted by Wayne Allard who was one of the most extreme Senators Colorado ever had. In step with the rest of the national GOPs unbridled duplicity, here are the reasons cited in the fundraiser invite to support Edgar Johnasson.
Here are some other great reasons to support Edgar:
- Having a true friend of the Aerospace industry in the State Legislature will bring much needed understanding and appreciation of just what we do for the economy of this state.
- Even though as an industry, we play mainly at the Federal level, the Colorado laws, regulations and taxation policies can have a real impact on our bottom line. With Edgar's knowledge, we can get a "head-ups" if anything is proposed that will affect our industry.
The message here is that if elected, carpetbagger and "true friend" of this so-called private industry-Johansson will not only use his position to force taxpayers to subsidize this industry, just like what happened in New Mexico, but he will also use his position to alert his cronies about anything the state may be doing that would effect their "bottom line". If that doesn't make you angry, I'll break it down a little more for you.
First, according to CNBC, Colorado is ranked as the third most friendly state for business beat only by Texas and Virginia. For many of the last several years, Colorado has seen about half a billion dollar budget cuts just from education. Business is doing as well as it can in Colorado. Any more "incentives" for business, which are really taxpayer subsidies, and we won't have a civilized society in this state. But that doesn't matter to the ultra-rich for which the aerospace industry is their patent playground. They have their wealth and their stated goal is their bottom line so they'll use their wealth to more purely concentrate their wealth, especially if that means buying a seat on the legislature by moving a Downtown Denver resident to the district at the last minute. <---- It's the American dream, right?
Wrong!
The principles on which this country is founded are fundamentally democratic. A crony of a special interest that is not in the greater interest of the people is an enemy of our state. Johansson very unethically moved to our district to try to seize a spot on the legislature where his rich buddies could use our money to pad their "bottom line".
And do you know that that is? It's socialism!
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