Bob Beauprez and Bill Ritter are taking voters as fools.
And they may be.
Review the candidates’ positions on several major issues.
In the Rocky’s summary of the candidates’ positions, voters can see how shallow and dishonest their positions are:
• Beauprez: To provide a “a modern, efficient, effective” health care system that allows Coloradans the right to choose their health plans by reducing the mandates in insurance plans – “ultimately reducing the percentage of Coloradans without health insurance.”
COMMENT: He’s right on the policy, but wrong on the politics. Republicans passed all the costly mandates that are making health care so expensive in Colorado. And a Dem General Assembly would not roll mandates back. Empty promise.
• Ritter: Create a universal state health care plan, similar to one in Massachusetts. He would provide “strong leadership” and bring together consumers, physicians, insurance companies, hospitals and other stakeholders to hammer out the plan to improve health care access, quality and affordability and to promote healthy lifestyle choices.
COMMENT: The MA plan died aborning, and the idea of “universal health insurance” is all about putting a Gigi Dennis in charge of our health care? Not for me. As for bringing people together. What a joke and promise to not do anything. Getting all the providers and workers and unions and employers to agree on anything regarding health care is like herding cats. And if a plan were developed, insurers would sic the FTC on the state and destroy whatever was put together. That’s the history of such efforts. Finally, there is no health care system. There are several health care markets, which is what works best.
Education
• Beauprez: Launch a “cutting- edge, privately funded state initiative that will engage and empower parents and communities to better prepare our little ones to start school with a fighting chance to learn, specifically focusing on literacy. We will shake up the education establishment by expanding the role of parents and providing more parental choice in the education of our children, whether it be public, private, charter or home schooling” and require the “vast majority of state education dollars go directly into the classroom.”
COMMENT: Blather.
• Ritter: Make education the state’s No. 1 priority by partnering with school districts, communities, educators and parents to set clear goals. “Getting more children into early childhood education, injecting renewed rigor and relevance into our K-12 system and keeping college affordable – all designed to provide Colorado companies with the best-educated workforce in the nation.”
COMMENT: A Sell out to the CEA.
Illegal immigration
• Beauprez: Create a high-tech database that employers can use to avoid hiring illegal workers and hold employers accountable. Ensure local law enforcement enforces immigration laws. Lead a coalition of Western governors to Washington, D.C., to “demand the federal government provide the resources necessary to secure the borders, and enact meaningful immigration reform including secure, biometric identification cards to verify the identity of those who cross our borders.”
COMMENT: A database like the one the state has created for welfare administration? Governors influence Congress? Gimme a break. He doesn’t really want to do anything.
• Ritter: “I will find responsible, achievable and practical solutions to the illegal-immigration crisis gripping our country and our state. Washington has failed to secure our borders, prosecute companies that knowingly hire undocumented workers and punish human smugglers and traffickers. As a state . . . we must force Congress and the President to live up to their responsibilities and reimburse the states for the enforcement and social-service tabs we are paying.”
COMMENT: Dishonest blather. If the feds won’t do anything, we can’t. Nice job of finger pointing.
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Seriously, What plans do you have come Nov. 7? You are way past skeptical; you may even be past cynical. Obviously, there is no reason to tell me who you are voting for, although I admit that I am curious. Do you even plan on voting for governor? Do you even plan on voting?
My current plan is to vote for Ritter, but if there is a chance to keep the Dems from controlling the entire gov, I’d vote for BB.
I want deadlock, because neither party is in a bipartisan, problem solving state of mind.
I consider myself a skeptic and arms length, pretty objective observer of horse races, while I have strong opinions on issues.
What this thread says, simply, is that so far both candidates are promising more than they can deliver and less than is needed to move the state forward. Both are highly partisan and are playing to their bases, hoping the unaffiliated vote for them.
Thus, on principle, I’d vote for Ritter. To maintain gridlock, BB, holding my nose.
The people who post on this site are partisans who are very interested in discussing horse races and personalities, not to mention calling names.
Issues seem unimportant to this crowd, which is ok, but instructive.
But I love arguing the issues. My perspective puts me more on the national stage rather than the local one. Issues like Super Slab I will leave to those that it will directly affect, or to those with knowledge, which I have none on this issue. I have given up on the local races. My past senator was John Andrews and Nancy Spence was my rep. Centennial wont change any time soon, and I dont have the mental or intestinal fortitude to really put up with the frustrations that would arise from a debate with people like that. I have had in depth conversations with Andrews and I cant do it again. it just blows my mind.
On sites like this, partisanship begets partisanship and I would say that the partisans of each side balance each other out. Then you have the people in the middle, which at times you are one (forgive me for saying so). Other sites that I frequent often have a heavy bent one way or another, even libertarian. People like the horserace, because the horserace is dominating the headlines, 6 mos from November people wont be talking about what is going on in a year and a half, ok some will, but me, brother, I will be in the trenches arguing for what I believe in and what I stand for. Sure you have got me pegged as a liberal dem, but I think outside the proverbial box on occasion and have even been known to make a few republican comments in my day.
In short, if it is issues you want, I’ve got them in spades and I am always happy to have a classical throwdown.
What we’re seeing here are classic knee jerk reactions to posts about Iraq, gay marriage, abortion and Bush.
A few of us like to debate those issues and look at what’s happening and coming. Others just play the old blame game and are still hung up on whether Bush lied or the earth was created 6,000 years ago.
What’s good about a forum like this is that those of us who are more issue oriented are shown how partisan a lot of people are regardless of the issues. And the partisans are shown how issue-oriented some of us are.
We drive each other nuts, because the issue people are more focused on what can and should be done, while the partisans think it’s all about party and candidate loyalty rather than loyalty to community and country. I’m a ticket splitter, and some people can’t handle that just as I have a problem with people who vote the party ticket, regardless.
This definitely is a year when I’ll split my ticket, while two years ago I voted straight GOP.