Inside pundits
and party officials believe that you have to have political “experience” to be effective in elected office. They
never clarify what that means in detail. Experience is usually described as having held office before, or being connected
in the party apparatus. They never talk about the fact for example how Doug Lamborn (or other “career” politicians)
have never held a job that has had a budget, employees, paid taxes, or had to work within or around regulations, say, like
I have. That is not relevant if they have been a good party soldier.
I am the first to agree that experience is better than
a degree any day. But what we have to look at is the results of that experience - not just the length of service. As the Republican
and Democratic parties argue how independents are a “risk” for chairmanships and key roles in the government,
they never point to results. Here are the results of the “experienced” and “career” politicians I
have observed:
·
Social Security is going bankrupt and being used to offset the real budget
shortfall the federal government is running. No urgency here.
· Energy “policy” has been ignored - so now because of the “experienced” members of congress’
inaction, we now enjoy another crisis created by them, who now say they are the right people to fix it. Really?
·
The inner city and minority communities are worse off than ever because
of the programs of “career” politicians. It is criminal in my opinion to have spent trillions and the problem
is worse. When will a new approach be tried by this group of “experienced” social engineers?
·
The public education in this country has been hijacked by unions and special
interests with the help of “experienced” politicians. The department of education funds need to be sent back to
the states where they belong. I don’t want to cut education, because my experience tells me it is the answer to poverty,
I just want the people closest to the community to have the funds they need to provide a quality education. Not a one size
fits all approach. But I don’t have the experience to know this I guess.
·
The federal “budget” is a disgrace. The economic ignorance
is embarrassing because politicians like Doug Lamborn have never had to run a business within a budget. A budget is a foreign
concept to most “career” politicians.
· Border Security is being ignored while our “career” politicians allow border agents to be assaulted and
thrown in jail for shooting criminals in the arse. The fed sides with corrupt Mexican officials over our own American soldiers.
And they act powerless? They are the US Congress in charge of securing our border; make it your issue dangit!
·
Our military is the greatest most stabilizing institution in the world
allowing for free trade to be conducted between the nations of the world, and yet our democratic “career” politicians
continue to despise it and cut its funding whenever they can to divert funds that create jobs to put into failed social programs
that suck the hope out of; New Orleans, LA, Detroit, and other inner cities that resemble third world nations. Never mind
they are the defenders of all freedom loving nations in the world. Without them we have nothing.
I could go on forever here. So
I ask; if this is what the “experienced” and “career” politicians results are, what is the risk in
sending some fresh new blood to congress? We need to focus on results not intentions. The road to hell is paved with good
intentions as they say so when will it be time to try a new approach?
We also need people in congress that are willing to passionately
work to change the way it operates. Lobbyists, fund raising, selection of committee chairs, length of time in office and in
DC, and the transfer of power back to the states where it belongs for most issues need to be addressed and changed. If you
agree I say:
Give Congress a Hand; Rich Hand!
This is my
attempt to be clever with a slogan for my upcoming 60 day blitz to Election Day November 4th. I know there are
so many clever citizens out there that could come up with a better play on words for the campaign.
I would like to challenge all
of you to take a shot at it. Also notice the new video on the sidebar created by my wonderful daughter Emily!! She has 2 more
videos to come. One on issues, the other on how simple it is to write-in Rich Hand!!
One of my blog posts has been picked up by
the website Tenth Amendment Center. I am in the company of Ron Paul and other citizens concerned about the federal governments over reaching policies like unfunded
mandates. I hope you check it out.
The League of Woman Voters will be posting my positions in the next few weeks on their site. I am
all over the political sites which are driving a lot of traffic to my site. I am confident I can break 100 votes this year!
Doug Lamborn the
republican incumbent has agreed to debate me in September; only kidding Mom!! He doesn’t have the guts and many would
consider that foolish politics. But it just shows you what you get in the current system; gutless tools. Sorry Doug if you
consider that a personal attack, I call it the truth. Two different ways to look at the same thing. I know you see everything
from the lobbyist view but I see it from a citizen view.
Keep coming back as I add some audio (radio) commercials and hopefully start getting
some speaking gigs. I will be walking School District 38 with Kelly Mobley who is working to maintain the integrity of the
schools there by getting support for a mill levy increase that is much needed because the federal government gives back so
little of the billions we send to the Department of Education in DC! See my position on getting that money back…
More news to come.
Looking forward to some creative slogans!!
From now until
Election Day I will be starting to focus more on my cause of becoming the next representative in Colorado’s congressional
district 5. The primary is done, and as expected incumbent Doug Lamborn cruised to an easy victory in the 3 way race. He could
have been beaten by either of the 2 other candidates in my opinion in a 2 way race. Both Jeff Crank and Bentley Rayburn are
good men and would have made much better leaders over Doug Lamborn. They split the vote because they are both such strong
candidates. My only issue with either was their party status. I believe we need to work from the outside in because the parties
have proven they can’t fix it from the inside out.
Doug Lamborn has a voting record that most in this district would support but being
a leader in my opinion is bigger than that. He is content waiting in line for his place in a congressional system that favors
length of service over skill, has money and lobbyists at its core, and is an assault on every American that lives in a district
where they have had the guts to elect new representatives.
We need a leader that is willing to fight to change the rules of congress so they
favor all Americans right to fair representation in congress. We need to change the system so good principled Americans want
to run for office. And we need a representative that will stop taking their direction from the lobbyists in Washington DC.
Mr Lamborn has been running commercials here stating how he has stood up to Nancy Pelosi and is willing to fight against her
liberal policies. Well I take exception to that. From what he has done here by avoiding debates in the primary, and basically
hiding behind an ad campaign, shows there is no way he is fighting Nancy Pelosi and liberals because he doesn’t even
have the guts to stand up in front of his constituents to debate his candidacy with two “friendly” foes. Nancy
Pelosi would eat this guy for lunch in a debate.
We need someone that knows that the system is broken and will fight to change the
rules in the House. Doug will not even debate in an election cycle, do you believe he will stand up and challenge the Republican
leadership to make the changes we need to get fair representation in congress?
I am running unaffiliated which is the largest
voting block; and growing in Colorado. I will fight for changing rules that will help clean up congress so we can all feel
better about the people we send to congress. The two parties have made this mess, and now they say they have the solutions
to fix it?? Well I don’t know about you, but I think they need some help from us.
Please join me by going to my website
and recommending it to other constituents in Colorado District 5. Thank you in advance…
