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OPINION: Scott Tipton States His Case |
Scott Tipton | 3/16/10
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With the Colorado Caucuses happening tonight, I wanted to take this opportunity to share with you a little about myself and my reasons for running for Congress.
My name is Scott Tipton and I am a candidate for Congress in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District. I am a small business owner and a lifelong Coloradan. I was raised in Cortez, CO, and graduated from Ft. Lewis College in Durango. After college I returned to Cortez and opened a small business with my brother. Western Colorado has been my home all my life; I met and married my wife here, we raised our two daughters here, I built my business here, and I have been incredibly privileged to be the State Representative out of Colorado's 58th district for the last few years. As the owner of a small business and a local employer, I understand what it means to balance a budget, meet a payroll and how to create jobs in the private sector.
Over the past year I became increasingly concerned and frustrated with Washington’s reckless spending as I watched the effect its policies were having on the lives and livelihoods of friends and neighbors. While unemployment skyrocketed in cities across the country, Washington passed a “stimulus” bill of nearly $1 trillion in spending on liberal pet projects and wasteful government programs. After borrowing $1.4 trillion in 2009 alone and tripling the national debt, Washington, Pelosi and Salazar are back in 2010 demanding more from hardworking and overburdened taxpayers.
 As nationwide unemployment continued to linger at 10 percent or higher, Washington worked to pass a government-takeover of healthcare that would impose new taxes and fees on every individual, family, and business across Colorado already struggling amidst the recession.
Somewhere in between all of the backroom deals, kickbacks, and vote-buying our elected officials lost sight of the American people. The real economic hardship experienced by ordinary Americans became just another series of anecdotes recited by politicians to justify the unprecedented expansion of government taking place. The weekly unemployment figures, the foreclosure rate, and every dip in the Dow were eagerly touted to underscore the crisis for which no answer existed but a giant liberal spending spree courtesy of the American taxpayer.
The American people deserve better than the duplicitous and self-serving behavior of the Democrats in Washington. As we struggle to recover from the deepest recession in a generation and millions of people are searching for work, the last thing our elected officials should be doing is taking more and more money that could have gone to productive use in the private sector to cover their spending profligacy. It’s time to remind John Salazar and the Democrats that they work for us, not the other way around. It’s time to bring some common sense and fiscal responsibility back to Washington.
We are at a fork in the road: we can continue down the current path toward increasingly higher taxes, bigger government, and limited freedom of John Salazar and the Democrats, or we can choose now to take a different route forward and take back our Country. I’m running for Congress because I believe a path based on our traditional American values – individual liberty and responsibility, limited government, and family values – offers us the opportunity to build a strong and prosperous America for the 21st century.
My campaign is priding itself on running a solutions-oriented campaign; we’ve had enough of the finger-pointing coming out of Washington. What we need is real answers to real problems – creating jobs in the 3rd District, balancing the federal budget and providing real solutions for healthcare that empower individuals and families, not government bureaucrats.
Please attend your local caucus tomorrow evening, March 16th, at 7:00 pm and pledge to be a delegate to your County Convention and stand up and speak on my behalf. You can find more information on my positions on the issues and my common sense ideas for moving forward as well as information on the caucuses and how to get involved here. Please feel free to print this email and read it at your local caucus.
Thank you for your time, support and vote. |
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