Jeffco Pols - Recent Comments

Paul

hornshwangler — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:03:10 GMT

because he's the only true conservative in the bunch. And, he wants to return this country to it's founding constitutional form & principals. For me the age of the candidate is not an issue, it's the youthful ideas he espouses and his character.

Just another way of looking at it.

On the other hand — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:28:46 GMT

What you see as corruption could be that he was simply interested in helping a friend who has been a fellow citizen activist win an election so that he could bring representation on the city council to a group that has been absent for a while.

Personally, I don't know Mr Roybal that well but he doesn't look like anyone that's going to be in Dave's pocket. To me, he seems to be his own man.

Dave hasn't always been in a position to donate such sums to the political process but recent events have made it possible for him to be a little less frugal and I think it's honorable that he's willing to donate to the cause of making the local government system a little more accessible to someone who otherwise might not have the knowledge and the resources to have been elected on his own.

I'm a lot less interested in the effects of contributions from citizens like Dave Wiechman than I am with the contributions that other candidates get from contractors, developers and big business who have something to gain from the decisions handed down from this council.

I think everyone on the council is honestly interested in helping Lakewood to grow in a sustainable way but I'd like to see a few more sub groups develop on the council. I don't like to always see the majority vote with the Mayor. I like the Mayor and I think he represents us well but he should just be one opinion and I would like to see more dissenting opinions so that more decisions become a compromise or a blending of ideas which will help everyone in the city not just a wealthy few.

One of the things that Councilman Ed Peterson use to say was that he thought that the best decisions are often compromises where everyone gets a little of what he wants but not everything. I'd like to see more of that on our city council.

Except that they're not

JeffcoBlues — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:58:52 GMT

The Town Hall meeting got cancelled due to weather. Got an email and a phone call around 11:30 this morning.

Learning to harp

AverageVoter — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:49:48 GMT

With Lobato still up in the air, and the Jeffco Board of Education possibly contemplating a bond election in November, Andy Kerr choosing to be the lead plaintiff in overturning TABOR could be his political downfall. Even Ken Summers recognizes this. It will be hard for the Republican not to harp on this nugget.

Romney...

AverageVoter — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:39:58 GMT

...because all our problems can't be solved with a teleprompter.

Romney won the 2008 Jeffco GOP vote. There is no reason to believe it will be any different this time around.

Gingrich can be brilliant... or bizarre. It takes more than be a great debater to be an effective president. We learned that the hard way with Barack Obama. It is also not a good sign when the people who worked with, or under, you won't support you.

Paul may have some good ideas, but this country is never going to elect a 77 year old (Paul will be that on 8-20-12) to the presidency. Ronald Reagan left the presidency at age 77. If Paul were the nominee, there would be more focus on his running mate than on him.

Santorum is too much of an unknown to most of the country. He might be better suited for 2016, if Obama wins a second term.

Did anyone show up?

BlueFire — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:02:07 GMT

All I've heard from Lakewood is that he has pissed people off.

Harp?

Jeffco Pols — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:37:44 GMT

While we don't necessarily disagree about the impact of the Tabor lawsuit, do you honestly think that Ken Summer is able to harp about anything? He'll probably make more of a "polite nuisance" of the issue than harping.

Let the party and independent groups do the harping.

Summers Can Win SD 22

AverageVoter — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:49:33 GMT

Andy Kerr, being the lead plaintiff to overturn TABOR, is going to be harped on continuously by Ken Summers and it will resonate with the public. This will be a big issue!

To a lesser extent, the public is going to start to question why the Jeffco Public Schools is keeping Kerr on the payroll for half the year, while they are planning to lay off about 150+ full-time classroom teachers.