Despite these seemingly optimistic figures, many people across Colorado still struggle with underemployment, looking for more hours and income to try to make ends meet. While I will champion policies that spur job growth throughout Colorado, as Governor I will never forget about rural Colorado and the Western Slope, whose priorities have too often have been forgotten in the halls of our State Capitol.
Creating a positive business environment that does not pick winners and losers, and works for businesses big and small, will be essential to restoring equitable growth that extends to all Coloradans in all corners of our great state.
As Governor, I will apply a strict cost-benefit analysis to any bill that crosses my desk, and will work actively with the legislature to promote common sense solutions that will create jobs and improve the lives of families across our state. The next four years are critical for implementing the Colorado Water Plan and closing the supply and demand gap by To achieve this we need to both improve conservation and build more storage to prepare for more variable precipitation.
Today, despite a growing population, Denverites use about the same amount of water we used 30 years ago. The real savings are coming from the cutting edge work in our agricultural community. Our continued investment in agricultural technology and best practices will pay outsized dividends in the areas of water conservation and efficient usage.
We have made good progress in conservation, but ultimately we are not going to reduce and save our way out of this problem. We also need to focus on storage and funding mechanisms. We need to build large storage projects and new reservoirs, but we also need to focus on dynamic and medium-sized projects that help us store water in innovative ways and balance environmental protection with our needs to build out storage. A key part of getting this storage on line is to improve the permitting process.
In many cases we will need to engage the federal government. We will coordinate to get the state agencies permitting process streamlined so that our steps in the process can be faster, unified, and orderly when we approach the federal government. Likewise, when we have multiple agencies with jurisdiction, I will support designating a lead agency to spearhead the process.
I support directing more financial resources to water projects, but do not believe this should come in the form of new taxes. A key part of this will be utilizing public private partnerships. Because of the finite nature of water and return potential we are on the cusp of recognizing more valuable ways that the public and private sector can work together. Local water companies and developers have the ability to raise capital and fund projects through capital markets at low rates, which will help spur development.
A key role for the state government is to help enhance creditworthiness and attract best terms for these borrowers who are developing water projects and infrastructure. On a state level, I will defend our rights, making sure we are getting every drop we are entitled to under our inter-state compacts. On an individual level, water rights are property rights.
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And he worked on The Williams Free Press , a fledgling conservative student newspaper. At the time, the mids, papers like the Free Press were popping up on liberal arts campuses to offer an alternative view and take swings at the liberal elite.
He campaigned for George H. Bush in and in nearby New Hampshire and served on the White House advance team, according to the student newspaper. In , the year he graduated, the elder Bush traveled to Williams to give the commencement speech. Stapleton took an early shot at elected office while at Williams, beating his suitemate Chris Murphy — now the Democratic U. Reinhardt asked his students to make political arguments and work out their own views as part of their classwork.
Stapleton was also known on campus for his skills as a squash player. The young Stapleton managed to eke out wins in ways that left spectators scratching their heads.
Off the court, he remembers Stapleton talking plenty about politics on campus and spending time at the White House in the waning days of the first Bush administration.
He recalls his phone ringing, Walker on the line. But he said they joked about their differences and shared some commonalities. Hershey described Stapleton as a generous friend who helped him finance a movie project after college.
Craig Stapleton, who is close with the Bushes, has been a businessman, foreign diplomat, baseball team investor — Texas Rangers, St. Louis Cardinals — and a member of corporate and governmental boards ranging from Abercrombie and Fitch to the Peace Corps. He was a friend and supporter of former Democratic U. He was also the namesake of the old Stapleton International Airport, which since the opening of Denver International Airport has been redeveloped into a new urbanist community of about 25, people.
Black Lives Matter organized a name-change campaign in that fizzled. Broader activism picked up last year, around the time Confederate monuments were toppling across the South following a deadly Unite the Right white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The conservative editorial board of The Gazette newspaper in Colorado Springs — which supports Stapleton and whose owner, Phil Anschutz, is a campaign contributor — ripped the Times and Post as smear merchants. Stapleton said he condemns racism and that it should be up to residents in the Stapleton community to decide what they do about its name.
He said he had been in talks with community leaders including Denver Mayor Michael Hancock about ways in which to unite communities and not focus on the past. In a recent conversation with Independent columnist Mike Littwin, Hancock confirmed that Stapleton had reached out to him, along with others. Photo by Phil Cherner. Walker Stapleton cites his business success as a reason to elect him governor. The focus on his business background in ordinary years would be a sound strategy for a state that has proven it likes its leaders, particularly its Republican politicians, to come with some private-sector seasoning.
After four years in two different jobs, he decided to go back to school. After Harvard, he headed to Colorado where he landed a job at Lamar Companies, a private real estate acquisitions firm with an office in Denver. The job lasted a year when Stapleton left Lamar to join what became the family business. Four years later, he was running for state treasurer. He was a fan of the Grateful Dead and jam bands, but always wore a suit. We knew he was related to the Bush family and that was sometimes a joke around the office.
Stapleton ran into the law during his time in San Francisco, pleading guilty to drunken driving after a June car accident. A hit-and-run charge was dropped, and he eventually did community service.
From there, he moved to Denver and worked for about year at Lamar Companies, a private real estate investment firm. As director of real estate acquisitions, he was tasked with finding shopping centers, office buildings and other commercial properties on the West Coast for potential purchase.
In , Stapleton worked as a consultant for Castle Keep Realty of Denver, a private real estate firm, according to corporate filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Those filings also say he was a founding principal of Convergence Capital Partners, a private real estate opportunity fund that made investments in Eastern Europe. Not long after he moved to Denver, he met Jenna Bertocchi , a magazine marketer, at a bar during a visit to New York City. The couple wed at the Bush property a year later, in , and nearly protesters showed up near the church before the service, demonstrating against the war in Iraq and then-President George W.
Bush, who attended the ceremony. By the time of his marriage, Stapleton had upped his business credentials by being named chief executive and chief financial officer of Sonoma West Holdings in His father, Craig Stapleton, a prominent Connecticut businessman and an ambassador during the George W. Bush administration, had joined the board of the former dehydrated fruit business in That experience spanned six years, including his stints on the West Coast and in Denver.
Walker Stapleton declined multiple interview requests for this story. Craig Stapleton did not return messages left with an assistant at his office. Walker Stapleton was settling into life in the Denver area as a new husband, new father and new CEO when he began flirting with a run for public office in It was 17 years earlier that he had told his college newspaper of his itch to one day get into politics. The something with a double-whammy political name had joined civic groups, charities, and social circles with financiers and Republican heavy-hitters looking for winnable new leaders.
The state GOP had some young rising stars on its bench, but its top-ticket candidates that election cycle ended up with serious flaws. Stapleton was more than just a young, interesting guy. He had the name, the resume, the connections needed to be a viable candidate.
The job appealed to him, he said, because of his education and experience in finance. It also offered a potential launching pad; two former governors, Roy Romer and Bill Owens, had both been state treasurers. No Republican had yet officially announced a bid to take on incumbent Treasurer Cary Kennedy, a well-respected Democrat who had shown a steady hand in protecting taxpayer money during the recession.
In April , Stapleton announced his candidacy, armed with a list of 30 big names and business people who supported him for the election. They included former U. Ament had consolidated Republican establishment support as well as Tea Party backing, and he crushed it at the state assembly.
But Stapleton — who sidestepped the assembly process by paying signature gatherers to help him petition directly onto the ballot — out-fundraised Ament and campaigned hard. Bush and other family members, along with high-finance figures from New York to Texas, and some of his former Harvard Business School classmates.
They also included heavy-hitters in Colorado. Pete Coors and John Elway chipped in. So did conservative Denver billionaire Phil Anschutz and Larry Mizel, a wealthy homebuilder and powerbroker. John Hickenlooper, was an early donor and is a close friend of Stapleton and his wife.
And he cast himself as a political outsider and job-creating businessman. Stapleton ended up narrowly beating Ament in the primary, aided by his hard work and money, impressing fellow Republicans along the way.
It turned out that was a wave year for Republicans. Statewide, Republicans turned out some , more voters than Democrats.
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