NFIB Endorses 42 Candidates for the Legislature

Date: October 10, 2014

DENVER, Colo., Oct. 10, 2014—The largest and leading association of small-business owners in Colorado today announced its endorsements for the Legislature, warning that a return of the current crowd would continue an anti-Main Street hostility that would be highly detrimental to the state’s economy.
“The current leadership and governing philosophy in the Colorado General Assembly has to go,” said Tony Gagliardi, Colorado state director for the National Federation of Independent Business. “Laws making it easier to sue small-business owners, proposals for a carbon tax and greater local control over oil and gas production are just a few of the examples of the open hostility our current Legislature has toward Main Street, mom-and-pop enterprises. We took extra care this year in our endorsement process to make sure the people we endorsed have a fundamental understanding that small businesses are not smaller versions of bigger businesses. They have different difficulties in remaining solvent.”
Incumbents who had an 70-percent, pro-small-business voting record during the last session of the Legislature were automatically endorsed for re-election. Challengers and open-seat candidates were endorsed based on responses to a questionnaire and interviews. The endorsements were made by NFIB’s SAFE (Save America’s Free Enterprise) Trust, the association’s political action committee. NFIB has more than 350,000 dues-paying members nationwide, including more than 7,000 in Colorado. Brief, single-pages of bulleted information on the power of the small-business vote, what a small business is and the distinctions it has from a big business can be found here.
The endorsed candidates for the Colorado General Assembly are:
(* denotes incumbent)
State Senate
Senate District 1–Jerry Sonnenberg
Senate District 2–Kevin Grantham* 
Senate District 5–Don Suppes
Senate District 6–Ellen Roberts
Senate District 7–Ray Scott
Senate District 9–Kent Lambert*
Senate District 11–Bernie Herpin*
Senate District 13–John Cooke
Senate District 15–Kevin Lundberg* 
Senate District 16–Tim Neville
Senate District 19–Laura Woods
Senate District 22–Tony Sanchez
State House
House District 3–Candice Benge
House District 14–Daniel Nordberg*
House District 16–Janak Joshi*
House District 17–Kit Roupe
House District 19–Paul Lundeen
House District 21–Lois Landgraf*
House District 22–Justin Everett* 
House District 26–Chuck McConnell
House District 27–Libby Szabo*  
House District 28–Stacia Kuhn
House District 29–Susan Kochevar
House District 33–Marijo Tinlin
House District 36–Richard Bowman
House District 37–Jack Tate
House District 38–Kathleen Conti*
House District 39–Polly Lawrence*
House District 43–K. Van Winkle
House District 45–Patrick Neville
House District 47–Clarice Navarro*
House District 48–Steve Humphrey* 
House District 49–Perry Buck*
House District 50–Isaia Aricayos
House District 51–Brian Delgrosso*
House District 56–Kevin Priola*
House District 57–Bob Rankin*
House District 58–Don Coram*
House District 60–Jim Wilson*
House District 63–Lori Saine*
House District 64–Tim Dore*
House District 65–Jon Becker
 
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For more than 70 years, the National Federation of Independent Business has been the Voice of Small Business, taking the message from Main Street to the halls of Congress and all 50 state legislatures. NFIB annually surveys its members on state and federal issues vital to their survival as America’s economic engine and biggest creator of jobs. NFIB’s educational mission is to remind policymakers that small businesses are not smaller versions of bigger businesses; they have very different challenges and priorities.
National Federation of Independent Business/Colorado
1580 Logan St. Suite 520
Denver, CO 80203
303-325-6243

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