Colorado’s main suer runs on Trump

By Tom Anthony | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice

According to Tucker Carlson interviewee Joe Kent, erstwhile Director of Counterterrorism, it was Netanyahu that induced the US to attack Iran. Of course Trump is taking the blame and that goes with being President, as executive decisions have their consequences. High gas prices aren’t popular with too many people (we’re excepting the ones who own oil wells) and so being anti-Trump has gotten somewhat easier on both sides of the aisle.

My dad was a doctor and started out a Republican (although, as a Catholic, he did support Kennedy and, we’ll have to include, partnered with Roy Romer in a ski resort venture). After me hearing years of ranting about “socialized medicine” he capitulated to the Democrats later in life to the point he waved anti-Trump banners in Boulder. 

Of course with the taxpayers on the hook for about $2 trillion annually in medical costs trickling into various medicine-related pockets and growing at nearly double digits, there may be some economic indicator as to why he shifted his point of view (Whatever the exact headcount, the giving leans hard left — doctors’ political donations have run roughly two-to-one Democrat in recent cycles, nearly $129 million to $62 million in 2020 per OpenSecrets, with Politico flagging the same shift again in 2024).

He interested me in biology and I did learn a bit about the mechanics of life so I’ve been able to save the taxpayers $17,786 per year for the past 8 years I’ve qualified for Medicare, as I’ve not used a penny of it or, for that matter, seen a doctor (since I still have medical choice, knock on wood) except maybe at King Soopers. My dad died ten years ago.

My methods are, of course, hush hush since, not being sanctioned by Big Pharma or the AMA, they are “quackery.” I’m not sure what to call “their methods” as, for instance, an old girlfriend I reconnected with told me she’d spent 18 months in the hospital (on Medicaid/Medicare) for diverticulitis treatment. Not once had anyone told her what to do to change her diet to be less harmful to her intestines which, after all, are the passageway of all the solids you imbibe, and so there MIGHT be a cause/effect relationship there.

Even our governor Polis seems alarmed at the double-digit doctor bill growth to the point he insisted on cutting some Medicaid spending.

On the other hand our aspiring governor Weiser has built his campaign on virtually one issue: Donald Trump, having used our taxes to sue that individual 66 times. 

No wonder there’s nothing left for the sick people. But as to policy, as a Democrat he has no choice but to pander to the medical industry, while Trump’s appointee RFK Jr has built the past 20 years of his life defending people against that industry’s corruption. 

Essentially, Weiser is a Republican hater willing to let Moffat County — seat of 81 percent Trump support — take the hit. When the Department of Energy ordered the coal-fired Craig Unit 1 to stay open, Weiser fought to let it retire on schedule, rather than defend a plant tied to 47 percent of the county’s GDP. He could have stood up for Moffat against the closure. He chose the state’s climate agenda instead — and new Colorado regulatory actions are pushing the same plant toward the same end.

So as long as you switch to Democrat you will be safe from him and his associate, Griswold, now trying to take over the job Weiser is vacating, who worked her hardest to keep Republicans from being able to vote for their preferred candidate calling her actions “protecting democracy.”  

The youngsters are watching the national debt numbers grow exponentially while the feds borrow a couple extra trillion a year to “keep costs in line” despite the wave of retiring baby boomers depending on someone’s grandchildren to pick up the slack both in productivity and health care. 

We can discuss  just why the birth rate has dropped to far below replacement but economics may have something to do with it; not to mention a political climate of reality disconnect which anyone with a bit of education can recognize as scary. The anti-Trump stumper, Weiser, has become Colorado’s main suer.

Tom Anthony was President of the Elyria Neighborhood Association during most of its 15 year fight to get I-70 buried. He incorporated CLEAN-IT, (Citizens Loving their Environment And Neighborhood Invincible Together) the organization which successfully sued the EPA to get the 6 acre radioactive concrete monolith removed from 1805 South Bannock Street in Denver, the only time in its history the EPA has reversed a completed Record of Decision. The City of Denver removed him from his home of 18 years in 2017 after falsely accusing him of breaking a zoning law, to wit, storing building materials out of doors in the Industrial Mixed Use zone.

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