He is not as polished or cerebral as Jared Polis, Mark Udall or Michael Bennet.
What gets mistaken and labeled as 'indecisive' is really the strong character trait of listening well.
If you really sit down and look hard at Scott Tipton and his politics, you will not find anything hard right or extreme. There are so many issues that he walks with actually very moderate steps.
One of the reasons he is so strongly supported by unaffiliated conservatives on the Western Slope is because of his tenacity.
Scott Tipton goes the distance.
"We have a chance in Washington to do something responsible — pass a balanced budget amendment and force Congress to live within its means.
In the coming months, as part of the debt limit agreement reached in August, the House will vote on a balanced budget amendment. This Constitutional amendment would legally require Congress to do what American families do every day, and only spend as much as it takes in.
Amending the Constitution is not something to be taken lightly, and passage requires broad, bipartisan agreement: a two-thirds majority of the House and Senate, meaning 290 representatives and 67 senators.
Once the Amendment is passed by Congress, it would be sent to all 50 states for ratification. Currently, 49 states have some form of a balanced budget requirement in place.
The balanced budget amendment is not a radical idea, but a common sense solution that nearly passed 15 years ago. It failed in the Senate by a single vote...."
(Scott Tipton)
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"Truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident."
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Tipton's doing an excellent job.
Not easy at all to be the first one in the door at the time the Aspen and west I-70 corridor is being rattled to its very core by the little guys.
Not easy at all to be dealing with that elitist, entitlement snobbery that's hurt fair political process from Aspen to Junction for dozens of years at the same time you're dealing with a nation in the worst economic times ever.
Tipton needs to understand something McInnis forgot. It's the home folks that you need to listen to and get into their mindset if you want to insure a win. Tipton has a hard race coming up because of the very fact that he's a threat now.
He's doing a great job and that makes him the target. Politics is a contact sport, it's not the time to fall back on only old tried and true ways to win. Scott Tipton has a lot of support out here, he just needs to round it up.
Well said Sumfu.
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