October 11, 2012
8 ADAMS COUNTY ELECTION GUIDE
Congressional Representative District 6
QUESTIONS 1) Please use three words to describe your leadership style: 2) Describe the skills and experience that make you the best candidate for the job: 3) Please list your top three priorities if elected: 4) As a congressman, how would you stimulate job growth and economic development? 5) How would you handle the growing discrepancy concerning marijuana, between federal law, and state amendments, including Amendment 64 (recreational marijuana) on the upcoming general ballot?
Terms The winner of the House congressional race will serve a two-year term.
MIKE COFFMAN
JOE MIKLOSI
Party: Republican (Incumbent) Address: 14044 East Hampden Place, Aurora, CO. (5950 S Willow Dr., Ste. 305 Greenwood Village, CO ) Background: A former small business owner and Marine Corps combat veteran who resigned from office to serve in Iraq. He is married to Cynthia Coffman. Contact: 303-791-6453 www.coffmanforcongress.com
Party: Democratic Address: Joe Miklosi for Congress PO Box 3975 Greenwood Village, CO 80155 Background: Joe Miklosi has served as a Colorado state representative for four years, and he is also an executive at the non-profit humanitarian relief organization Project C.U.R.E. in Centennial. Contact: www.joemiklosi.com
1) Honest, hardworking and bipartisan. 2) As a former small business owner, I know what it takes to balance a budget, meet a payroll and to create jobs. As a Marine Corps combat veteran, the only veteran in Colorado’s congressional delegation, I understand the needs of those who serve our nation in uniform and of veterans who have served. 3) My three priorities are to help fix our economy and create jobs, to get the deficits and the debt under control and to protect the programs that seniors depend on and have earned. 4) I strongly believe that it will be small businesses that will create the jobs that are so desperately needed and the best way to do that is to remove the impediments to growth, including unnecessary government regulations. That’s why I supported the Red Tape Reduction and Small Business Act, and am working across the aisle to promote credit availability to small businesses. 5) I am opposed to legalizing marijuana but I am willing to look at making some conforming changes to federal laws based on whatever direction the voters decide.
1) Accessible; Compassionate; Pragmatic. 2) I’m committed to finding bipartisan sensible solutions like those we have worked on in the Colorado state legislature. Along with other state legislators, I cut my take-home pay by 2 percent, and I worked on an audit committee that found more than $70 million in savings for state government to help balance the budget. I want to take that same approach to Washington. 3) My top priorities are: creating good paying jobs in Colorado, protecting Medicare and Social Security, and protecting women’s health freedoms. 4) There are many things we can do. In Congress I would push “Buy American” legislation that gives American companies the first crack at federal contracts and ensures jobs stay here instead of being shipped overseas. I would also work to make Colorado the renewable energy capital of the world in hopes of doubling the 72,000 renewable energy jobs in our state. 5) I support strong guidelines for dispensing medical marijuana to patients who need it, like veterans and those who are extremely ill. However, before going any further, I feel we must work in congress to ensure that federal and state laws are consistent.
KATHY POLHEMUS Party: Unaffiliated Address: 5190 University Blvd. C18 207, Greenwood Village, CO 80121 Background: A longtime participant in District 6 on the staff of Cherry Creek Schools and Arapahoe Advocates for Children. Executive director of Dress for Success Denver. Contact: 303-789-7899, Polhemusforcongress.com 1) Inclusive. Principled. Decisive. 2) While having a broad understanding of the issues facing the country and extensive demonstrated leadership skills, I do not have to adhere to party ideologies, pander to party donors, or further the agendas of special interests. 3) Replacing bitter partisan politics with respectful reason; confronting and working to resolve our unsustainable fiscal situation; and focusing on improving education at all levels. 4) As a federal congressman I would look to get government out of the way of state and local efforts to encourage job growth and development. 5) As with alcohol, marijuana is best regulated at the local level. Eventually, the courts will sort out the complicated situations created by Colorado’s easily amendable constitution.
PATRICK PROVOST Party: Libertarian Address: 14092 E. Tufts Dr. #617 Aurora, CO 80015 Background: I am a five-year Army veteran disgusted with the way the government is being ran. I am a goal-oriented man who is driven and passionate about this country. Contact: Cell 303-901-6069 www.facebook.com/pages/Patrick-Provost-Libertarian-for-CongressCD6-2012/284225881594703 1) Decisive, Loyal, Passionate. 2) I operate well under stress. I pride myself in being honest and forthright. I am not a politician; I am an American. 3) To push for an accountability and transparency act. To help develop and implement a balanced and fair budget while still maintaining our obligations to the elderly, our military and those that genuinely need assistance. My third priority is to begin audits of all federal bureaucracies for fraud and waste, including the Federal Reserve. 4) The key to economic growth and job creation is the elimination of government interference. A free market system is the best way to create a solid economic foundation upon which growth can be achieved. 5) As a Libertarian I am against any government interference into the lives of the individual citizen in so far as the action does not inflict undo harm upon other citizens. I believe that marijuana is a relatively harmless drug. The majority of the crime involved with marijuana is linked to its trading on the black market. If it is brought to the open market it can be better controlled andregulated.