Here is still yet another google alert that is obviously touting up former Garfield County Commissioner Tresi Houpt. There have been, over the past few days, dozens of selectively keyworded links pumped out onto the web on this story.
Houpt was soundly voted out of office in 2010 to the tune of a number of reasons why discussed around the county. The strongest point, which also seems to be the problem facing Republican incumbent John Martin in his race to re-up as a GarCo commissioner this fall, is that the folks just are not impressed at all with the way Houpt made the issues more about her ideology instead of a well-rounded leadership of the folks needs.
This article off NPR is a great example of what simply will never fly in the Red State that Colorado is. Extreme liberal agendas that do not balance out all needs and use power held as a literal weapon will never garner the voters respect. The same way that a conservative who has grown to care more for capital cronyism in the good 'ol boys and girls club will likely be voted down the road this fall in favor of a trusted and balanced democrat.
You lost the election Tresi and your continued pushing of articles and interviews like this are hurting your cause rather than helping. More important, you're hurting the balanced needs of the folks throughout Garfield County. It's about compromise and facts, not hype and blame with the agenda to abolish.
"Even conservatives love her. Vote Sonja Linman (D-Garfield County)".
Example of one of the dozens of "Tresi Alerts" over the past few days out on the web. Credit goes to Google:
| "Garfield County in Colorado Has Encountered Shale Gas Health ... By Duane Nichols As she started to campaign to be a Garfield County commissioner, she came down from her home on a ski mountain to meet people in ranches, rural neighborhoods with the big blue skies and clear starry nights. She couldn't believe what she ... Frack Check WV" Elizabeth Shogren: "Living in the middle of a natural gas boom can be pretty unsettling. The area around the town of Silt, Colo., used to be the kind of sleepy rural place where the tweet of birds was the most you would hear. Now it's hard to make out the birds because of the rumbling of natural gas drilling rigs. The land here is steep cliffs and valleys. But bare splotches of earth called well pads are all over the place...... ........Nearly a decade ago, Garfield County in Colorado started trying to tackle that question, and was chugging ahead of the whole country in pursuit of scientific truth. Local politician Tresi Houpt was the engine pushing that effort. It pains her that people are still asking the questions that revved her up when she first learned about her county's gas boom while campaigning to be county commissioner. "There's a great frustration," she says. "I'm hearing the same stories that I heard nine years ago." Houpt is a Sally Field type, with bangs and all. She speaks softly and deliberately, and wears pressed Carhartt work pants and cowboy boots. As she started to campaign to be a Garfield County commissioner, she came down from her home on a ski mountain to meet people in ranches, rural neighborhoods with the big blue skies and clear starry nights. She couldn't believe what she saw: drill rigs right outside homes, armadas of diesel-spewing trucks, fumes wafting from equipment called compressors and condensate tanks..... .......In May of last year, the commissioners gathered for a meeting and voted to end a contract with the Colorado School of Public Health. Tresi Houpt, who had lost her re-election and wasn't part of the vote, saw her years of work unraveling......" (Read the article in it's entirety? Click title) "Unapologetic pursuit and tracking of patterns within the news others make since 2010." |
3 comments:
Sure wish Tresi would find a job to occupy her time. Just let go. Please do it soon.
No matter how much she might like to believe it of herself, Tresi Houpt is not Garfield County's "Norma Rae". Never was. The folks let her know that in 2010. In all her time in office Tresi never really lived up to what she promised. She's a radical liberal and was elected because of that. Maybe if she had then core liberals such as myself would have kept her in office.
Say YES to Tresi moving off the media waves and YES to Sonja Linman in November 2012.
I've never had a personal problem with Tresi. I just don't think she is what we need whether elected or not. Propaganda like this hurts more than it helps. We need a balance and we need future thinking. She's never been focused on either one really. No matter how enviro she looks.
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