October 11, 2012 06:41 PM UTC

Ray Scott, Absentee Representative

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• by: Konola

I’m sure nobody is surprised that I’ll be voting for Dan Robinson when I mail back my ballot. After all, I did work on his campaign before I was diagnosed with cancer and had to curtail some of my activities in order to beat that curmudgeon. But I’m not going to blog about what a great representative Dan will make, I’m going to tell you why I wouldn’t vote for Ray Scott, even if he were running unopposed.

I always found it curious that he was running for a second term. I heard him say, in a room full of people at a WSCA candidates forum, that he wanted one term. I think I’ve finally figured out why he decided a second term would be a good thing, and it has nothing to do with wanting to do a good job in Colorado’s House. It has everything to do with ego and greed.

I “liked” Ray Scott’s public page on Facebook because I’m a political junkie and I do things like that just so that I know what is going on. He posted pictures talking to crowds in Steamboat. He posted pictures talking to crowds in north eastern Colorado. He posted pictures of him at the race track in Aurora. There was a shortage of pictures of him anywhere near Grand Junction. He doesn’t live in Grand Junction anymore. He lives in that expensive apartment in Denver, where he also moved his business.

Everybody knows that for a business to succeed, the owner needs to be hands on, 24/7. Of course Ray Scott is spending more time in Denver than he is in Grand Junction. It is only natural. His business there is booming, while businesses here are floundering. Besides, that not-a-rat-hole apartment is a pretty nice place to be.

Ray Scott thinks he doesn’t need to be in Grand Junction for things like candidate debates. When I ran for office, I debated Steve King seven times. Ray Scott and Dan Robinson debated twice-at all of the other opportunities to speak to his actual constituents, Ray Scott was a no-show. Dan Robinson got to talk to an empty chair. Ray Scott is so arrogant that he thinks his popularity as a football jock in high school, which by the way wasn’t a Grand Junction high school, is an important factor in his electability. Seriously! I haven’t looked at his webpage lately, but it used to be one of the things he wanted you to know about him. That’s akin to a woman putting her attempts at being a beauty queen on a resume seeking the presidency of a company.

Ray Scott thinks it is enough to have people like Kevin McCarney and Marjorie Haun shilling for him in local newspapers. I’ve heard rumors about both McCarney and Marjorie Haun that would make your hair curl. Neither of them is a pillar of the community. Both are obnoxious loud mouths who have no problem with ignoring facts if it helps them advance their personal quests for power. They even attack fellow Republicans when it is useful personally to do so. Ask Garry and Barbara Brewer about that. In case you’ve forgotten, Barbara Brewer has been elected on more than one occasion to be our county assessor. From what I’ve seen she does her job well, and I had to opportunity to ask her a lot of questions when I met with her as a candidate. She really helped me understand how Mesa County’s property taxes work.

What I found particularly disgusting was Marjorie Haun’s attack on Dan Robinson for representing a family after their daughter was injured. The fact that there was an undocumented worker in the mix shouldn’t change the way that justice is served. If a kid is injured, the individual responsible for the injury needs to accept responsibility, and sometimes that means taking the individual and/or their insurance company to court. That is a right that all HUMANS should enjoy regardless of manmade borders. I’m sure Mitt Romney used lawyers in France after someone was killed in an accident where Mitt was one of the drivers. Would Marjorie Haun be so critical of Mitt in France?

But while I’m on the subject of undocumented workers, there is another rumor that I heard. I haven’t tried confirming this rumor, but my source has delivered good information to me in the past, and in this case he claims to have video evidence. Rumor has it that Ray Scott’s construction company regularly employed undocumented workers in order to keep his costs down and put more money into his pocket. I don’t know how a video could show anything other than people who look Latino, so I don’t think that is much evidence, but I think there is a reasonable probability that Scott did, in fact, hire undocumented workers for his construction projects. Which is worse? Getting justice for a kid or hiring undocumented workers instead of a Grand Junction resident?

Homework:

Marjorie Haun Smearing Dan Robinson in a Free Press Letter:

http://www.gjfreepress.com/art…