| SMALL GOVERNMENT | BIG GOVERNMENT
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| COSTS | COSTS |
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| Elimatate Polis fees put into effect to bypass TABOR and grow governement | Voted YES on 503 pieces of legislation costing you millions $$$$$ in 2022 alone. |
| Will lower inflation by reducing regulatory costs in housing and energy | Supports printing more money. |
| Will make energy and water abundant and cheap | Will increase energy costs by suppresssing energy production |
| Building codes to enhance innovation, improve lives, and lower prices | Coersive building codes that raise costs and prevent innovation. |
| Voted no on HB1362 | Voted yes on HB-1362 for more building codes statewide |
| Supports a free market to be the best innovator. Tesla Anyone? | Wants to nationalize transportation sector beginning with electric charging stations. DMV Anyone? |
| Free market to create more housing | Supports Government Regulation |
| Supports Nuclear Energy | Supports dirty and expensive solar from China |
| Supports regulation that benefits consumers | Encourages Regulatory Capture |
| Limited Government reduces Inflation | Supports increased inflation with increased government spending. |
| Supports independent builders, not costly and inefficient government bureacracy. | Voted Yes on SB22-232 to create a new bureacracy, the Colorado workforce housing trust authority. Initial cost $1 million. |
| Respects TABOR and your right to keep your money. | Runs around TABOR. Voted Yes on HB22-1025 to increases revenue from income, sales and use, other taxes, each of which are subject to TABOR. |
| Pro immigration but not pro benefits for non-citizens | Voted yes on HB22-1289 to gives Medicaid to illegal aliens |
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| CRIME | CRIME |
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| Preserve Civil Society with Law Enforcement | Selective Enforcement |
| Gives Illegal Campers a Choice: Treatment, Jail, or No Camping | Gives Illegal Campers a pass |
| Supports Police Especially in Minority High Crime Neighborhoods | Disempowers Police |
| Arrest Criminals Before they become Repeat Offenders | Supports Comfort of Criminals and Supported the End of Cash Bail |
| Insure that criminals are off the street | Decriminalize lawbreakers. |
| Protects the rights of victims and the law abiding | Has created a protected class for drug abusers, untreated mentally ill people and repeat offenders |
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| EDUCATION |
| A student’s education is directed by Parents | Empowers powerful union leaders. |
| Empowers Teachers | Empowers Bureaucracy |
| Supports Parents Bill of Rights | Opposes Parents Bill of Rights |
| Supports school choice/vouchers | Supports school choice only for the rich and opposes charters |
| School money follows the student. | School money follows the unions and bureaucrats. |
| Respects students diverse educational needs with school choice | Disregard student’s diverse educational needs by limiting choice. |
| Supports history curriculum that empowers students. | Worn out, disempowering history lessons |
| Supports parents solutions for preschool education. | Voted for for HB 22-1295, to create cotly new preschool bureaaacracy ($300 million in first year.) |
| MENTAL ILLNESS |
| Compassion and Consequences | No Consequences = No Compassion |
| Shelter First, Housing Earned | “Housing first” = Enabling + Higher Cost |
| Colo-Psych, statewide mental health recovery treatment to care for ill and drug addicted campers | Enables mental illness and drug addiction while wasting millions allowing people to die. |
| Inform on Matters of Health | Mandate matter of health |
| Excessive red tape blocks urgent treatment | State Dominance ensures slow Access |
| Realist about connection between drug use, alchol abuse and mental illness | Denies realtiy of drug/alcohol abuse as driver of mental illness |
| Support police to cope with mentally ill criminals | Fire police and create new, inefficient bureaucracy of mental health workers. |
| Recriminalzie possession of Class 1/2 drugs especially fentanyl | Supports open borders and has contributed by supporting bad policies to the fentanyl epidemic. |
| Support mental health with strong families and communities. | Support mental health bureaucracy that destroys family and community |
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| GOVERNMENT |
| Shrink size of government and get rid of career statists. | Voted YES on 503 pieces of costly legislation in 6 months! |
| Supports free and fair elections. | Supports pizza to bribe students votes, unmonitored drop boxes and Jena Griswold |
| Ciizens are Free to Choose | Mandates, clousures, masks, compulsory vaccines |
| Supports | Opposes |
| Voted YES on ~ 50,000 pages of laws |
| Supports increasing the number of legal immigrants. | Tolerates sex trafficking and fentanyl imports with support for open borders |
| Supports Freedom, Rights and Duties | Supports Dependence on the worlds Most Authoriarian Regime, the CCP |
| For Effective Government | For Gargantuan, Inefficient Government Bloat |
| Government by the People | Government by Unelected Bureaucrats |
| People keep the lion’s share of their earnings | People give more of their earnings to fund the power and growth of government |
| Katie supports recycling and innovation. Bureacracy ALWAYS creates waste and defeaats the intended consequences. Prosperous countries are the cleanest countries. | Judy’s current goal is to reach one million electric vehicles (EVs) by 2040. |
| Homeowners choose to implrement energy saving technology | Government by Unelected Bureaucrats |
| Will boost Colorado’s economy by reducing spending and supporting Colorado business. | Spending while destroying Colorado business will bankrupt Colorado |
| Understands the wisdom of the Second Amendment; mental illness and crime cause gun violence | Wants more guns for the IRS, and to take yours away. Voted yes on HB22-1086. |
| Supports election integrity according to Jimmy Carter’s recommendations. Katie is not fooled by bills’ misleading titles. | Voted for SB22-153 that mandates electronic voting equipment and prohibits hand counting system. Also prohibits county clerrks from backing up election server drives |
| The Harvard-based Electoral Integrity Project, shows that US elections rate “lower than any other long-established democracies and affluent societies.” | Claims that the 2020 elections were secure. |
| Saving waterr is important. More bureacracy will not help. | HB 22-1151 mandates a turf replacement program. |
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| ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT |
| Practical Environmentalist | Impractical Environmentalist |
| Supports evidence based, market solutions to climate change. | Supports massive bureacrracy to combat climate change. |
| Supports Clean Solar Panels manufactured in US | Supports Coal-Made Solar Panels from China |
| Katie supports recycling and innovation. Bureacracy ALWAYS creates waste and defeaats the intended consequences. In aaddition, this will hurt business and further slow the economy. | Voted yes on HB22-1355to create a wasteful new bureacracy. The “producer responsibility recycling program” intended to recycle waste. What it will create for sure is waste of tax dollars and waste of innovaton. |
| Supports research on Climate | Deluded in thinking “The Science” is settled |
| Informed by climate scientists like Steve Koonin, PhD, Obama’s climate advisor. | Informed of climate by teenager, Greta Thunberg |
| Undertstands the cost of electric vehicles | Thinks electric cars don’t produce CO2 |
| Understands that 2.8% of electricity from Solar | Thinks solar can replace natural gas by 2023. |
| Supports engineers and entrepreneurs to solve Climate change | Believes community activists who don’t understand Newton’s law of motion can solve climate change |
| Climate Change is Real. Climate Catastrophe is a power grab. | Climate change is a Catastrophe that only government and their corporate cronies can fix (while enriching themselves) |
| Supports private sector solutions. TESLA anyone? | Government Solutions: DMV anyone? |
| Encourages Safe and Clean Nuclear Power | Discourage Nuclear Power |
| Climate Education Reduces Fear | Using Climate Fear to Create More Government |
| Fires due primarily to forest mismanagement | Blames fires on climate change |
| Encourages logging industry to thin overgrown forests to prevent fires. | Low Priority: Fire Prevention |
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| HEALTH CARE |
| Yes to health and no to government bureacracy. | Big government Medicine = Poor Health |
| Make Health Care Affordable | Increase Medical Costs |
| Innovation makes quality health care safe, effective, and affordable | “Regulatory capture” make health care unsafe, ineffective, and unaffordable |
| Supports mental health with strong families and communities. | Supports mental health bureaucracy that destroys family and community |
| Like oxygen, health care is human need. You know when to inhale and what health care you need better than the government. | The government knows better than your doctor how to heal you. In the US, the government spends more per person on health care than any other country, and still they manage to screw it up. |
| DISCONNECT HEALTH CARE FROM EMPLOYMENT STATUS | DISCONNECT HEALTH CARE FROM EMPLOYMENT STATUS |
| Enrich Big Pharma at Expense of People’s Health |
| Supports Excellent Healthcare | Because of government mandates, healthcare in the US is the MOST EXPENSIVE IN THE WORLD. More government spending would add to this already staggering cost. |
| PHILOSOPHY |
| Both candidates want the best for Coloradans. Katie can actually deliver. |
| Effective Altruism | Ineffective Altruism |
| Considers consequences of every intension | Good Intentions |
| Puts people first. | Puts good intentions first, enabling unintended consequences of ineffective political ruling class and the corporate donors that support them. |
| Puts You In Charge | Puts Government in Charge |
| Believes in You | Believes in Big Government |