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July 11, 2023 12:03 PM UTC
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Having gone to the same meetings Claudette Konola did, as I drove, I agree with the level of concern. Rowland is pursuing a change in the way meetings proceed and appears to be looking for a way to increase the intervention level of the board of health, perhaps to interfere with the day-to-day health department flows, how grants and federal/state monies are handled. She did this with Craig Meis (both county commissioners during Rowland's first 8 years), when they redefined "to mitigate the effects of oil and gas development," and gave the initial $1.6M, slated for the Federal Mineral Lease District for distribution, instead, gave it to CMU for a "nonconventional energy center" (fracked gas center/meeting area) that was a feather in Tim Foster's hat as one of his first major expansion projects. CMU was gifted millions in the end. David Ludlum was on the FMLD board and later got a really good job at CMU as Claudette mentioned.
Rowland has a personal illegitimate, possibly county-wide harmful plan for the health department. It will come in the form of vaccine access, vaccine information, birth control access and how the health department follows the women who utilize the health department's varied programs, access to personal health status and programs vacated.
The population served will start dropping within 6 months of Kuhr's firing due to lack of trust. Programs will loose money or money will be diverted to questionable misinformation. Staff will leave. This firing chaos will reverberate in the economy for at least 2 years. Then Rowland needs to be voted out. She is no Republican and certainly not a conservative. She spends taxpayer money like she has a right too. The health board's interference, and specifically Rowland's, will be a sorry time for Mesa County health.
Rowland is a menace. She’s built a base in the Pentecostal Victory Life Church in Mesa County and is in an apparent pissing match with Kuhr over his dealings with a Health Department staffer who’s a BFF of Rowland.
So state and federal money went to CMU. So what? It wasn’t illegal. If calling Colorado Mesa University Colorado Methane U rocks your boat, why not?
I’m keeping an eye on Rowland. She appears determined to have Kuhr fired and seems oblivious to the high-dollar lawsuit he’ll file for wrongful termination.
From my long experenice in Mesa County politics, I’d much rather have Kuhr’s side than Rowland’s.
Tim Foster seldom loses. Very seldom.
It is the manner in which those monies were acquired is/was/ and will continue to be an issue. Others know this subject better than I, but the absence of shared governance has created a culture of "good ol' boy" favoritism and exclusion that is anathema to fairness and justice.
Jeff Kuhr is lucky to have Tim Foster on his side. There are few Republicans 'round here who have both the clout and the resolve to challenge "the Ice Queen."
Mesa County Republican men ceded political power to their women long ago. The list of powerful women with an agenda and an attitude that run the show over here is long. They seem to be of a type (with only a couple of exceptions).
That Mr. Foster and other stalwart Republicans have stepped up.to oppose Janet and her "Big Jesus Army of Forced Morality" is indicative of the current plight of the Mesa County Republican party…
No one is in charge.
Part of being a good community health department is to get people into the outdoors. Thus, the Mesa County Health Department runs a trails and trail maintenance program. I wonder what Rowland's take is on that? Maybe it's too DEI?