Fiscal Conservative.
- Government should not grow for the sake of growing.
- Careful watch of all spending needs to be the highest priority of all elected officials.
Education as a priority.
- Great schools with meaningful accountability of students and teachers will ultimately lead to high paying jobs.
- Meaningful & Responsible tracking of assessment tests (CSAP) to be used as tools to improve schools.
- An educated society has shown to attract businesses which will improve the economic future for Arvada and Colorado.
Protect our communities.
- If every citizen would watch after his or her own neighbors, neighbors make up a community and the collection of communities make up this great state.
Care of the environment.
- Renewable energy needs to be a priority and Colorado is leading the way in renewable energy electricity generation.
- Our colleges and government leaders’ enthusiasm, needs to reach out to companies and create an environment for growth in this field.
- Subsidies need not do all the work of attracting companies, quality of life and limited regulation are great incentives to locate to Colorado.
Today’s Economy.
- Housing and foreclosures are dominating the state economy.
- Education of future homeowners on how to stay on budget and saving for the future, will aid the entire state as these homeowners purchase replacement homes.
Self Reliance.
- A key to being a good citizen. President Kennedy had it right, “ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”
- Free enterprise system without mandates, leads to a higher quality of life for all.
Health care is not the same thing as health insurance.
- We have the finest health care in the world, the envy of the world.
- Government needs to end mandates to this health insurance industry that drive up insurance costs and allow buyers to purchase the coverage they want.
- Mandates take the choices away from you and your doctor, but above all, you need to be in charge of your health care decisions, not the government!
Internet Sexual Predators.
- Every effort must be made to keep the internet open and free to help us in our lives, yet safe from those who would use it to do harm.
- Sexual predator laws and tracking need to be in place to protect our children.
We are blessed in Colorado with such great scenic beauty.
- We should strive to ensure the maintenance of parks and open space for our children.
- Future growth must contain room for parks.
Protecting our borders and ensuring a valid citizen status is paramount.
- English as the state and national language.
- If you were to go look on the Colorado Secretary of State web site, there is a button to receive voter information in Spanish. As understanding English, speaking & reading, is required to be a citizen. Why do we need it in any other language?
- All government agencies need to unite in combating benefits for illegal aliens.