Cañon City

Everybody loves the parachute.

About 400 kids with hearing loss from schools as far away as Canyon City have converged on this football field in Aurora for the event.

All the sports here are adapted for kids with physical disabilities, and there are sign language interpreters everywhere.

Um, my favorite event is the, um, parachute.

Cheese, and we got— It was one of those fluke, how did this happen? But we were in CSP that day, and that's where the execution takes place.

When people say Canyon City, that's the territorial penitentiary.

That's the old penitentiary.

And we did the radio shows there, but we went to CSP to see all of this stuff.

It's diminished what the actual experience was supposed to be in the first place, and now you can recreationally go do DMT all you want.

You can-- There's a place in Canyon City you can actually go to and, and take the DMT experience.

Hmm.

For, for me, it's all about intent if you're going to take some sort of psychedelic.

local towns have riverwalks.

So we go into Buena Vista and Canyon City and do these river walks right near the town.

And it's just been fantastic.

How about you? That is awesome, man.

So that's part of my experience and perspective that I bring, uh, into this endeavor.

Um, of course, living in Canyon City, so still out in rural Colorado, living in Fremont County, and, um, I'm a husband and a father and a grandfather of five.

Um, and I have representation experience, uh, with the, the people of Canyon City and Fremont County going back to, uh, days on city council and the state senate and now as a commissioner.

So I have, uh, certainly experience as far as representing folks and as well as in the private sector.

So I guess to answer your question, my, my rural upbringing and, uh, small business background, certainly coupled with that local and, and state government experience, I, I think suits me to, um, being the chief steward of the dollars that are entrusted to the state treasury on behalf of all of the taxpayers of Colorado, those hardworking folks.

taxpayer.Tell us about a specific decision you made in your current job or a past one that you would make differently today.

What did you change because of it?

You know, that, that's an interesting, interesting question because [laughs] I, I, you know, you, you look back on your career and you think, "Okay, where is that one thing that, uh, that one seminal moment where you're looking at this changed?" And, and I gotta be honest, when I'm looking at my, uh, my career as a representative of the people of Canyon City, of the people of Senate District 2 at the time, and now the people of Fremont County, you know, there's no specific vote that I look back on and go, "Oh, I regret that," you know? [laughs] "I wish I'd have done something different." I don't have one of those moments.