Colorado Senate Candidate Is Part Obama, Part Reagan
By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers
We're hearing lots of buzz about another Republican who plans to challenge Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, named just this year to replace Ken Salazar, who was plucked from the Senate by President Obama to run the Interior Department. The word is that this potential candidate, Aurora City Councilman Ryan Frazier, is part Obama, part Reagan.
Frazier is an African-American, father of three, and board member of Engineers Without Borders, group that helps underdeveloped communities in Africa and South America. Friends say he has the focused passion for his ideas of an Obama. As a small-government, lower-taxes Republican who cofounded a charter school, he has the views of Reagan.
Brand new to the Senate race, Frazier is described as the challenger with a fiscally conservative moderate tone. But he's not well known, something his team tells us they are trying to change with a biographical video.
Look for Frazier and the other candidates to get lots of attention as the 2010 midterms near. Both the national Democratic and Republican parties have put Colorado on their best-bets-to-win lists and will very likely pour lots of money and celebrity endorsement in next year.
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Reagan was not for low-taxes or small government
Reagan increased taxes by making tax-paid government employees enforce church laws that ban abortion. When he did that, he "increased the size of government." His continual demand for costly weapons and Star Wars led him to leave the biggest national debt in U.S. history. He DE-REGULATED many industries, thus causing some of the financial crises we suffer today. He fired striking air controllers-- and air travel safety declined. As governor, he decreased the number of people who would have studied medicine, including cell research. He did that because, as regent of Land Grant Colleges, he made them begin CHARGING TUITION. Maybe unacknowledged Alzheimer's caused bad decisions, but it's wrong to preserve the myth that he was a genuine Pre-Goldwater conservative in the Republican Party. .
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