Colorado House District 54 Race Between Ray Scott and Bob Hislop

1. Self preservation is part of it and I don’t mind saying it. I am a small business owner and I have taken a pounding during this recession. I’ve laid off employees, sold off equipment and watched our income plummet 30%. All I have worked 20 years for is in jeopardy if this economy and government at all levels does not get back to conservative values. I also felt I could no longer be a complainer without backing it up. I have grown children that are struggling and grandchildren that deserve better than what will be left for them 20 years from now. If in some small way I can help I am willing.

2. I have a unique background in many industries that will allow me to view problems from boots on the ground to the board room. I have worked for major corporations such as Conoco and Williams Energy. I am a small business owner in the energy, construction and logistics industries. I understand business is not personal it is about gross margin. I understand government cannot create one job. I understand that each piece of legislation impacts something or someone and must be limited. I understand that to succeed we need free enterprise to lead the way not government programs. I understand the best social program ever created is called a job. I understand we are creating a new generation of helpless because we are helping them be helpless.

3. I am a true conservative. Social, fiscal, pro-life, 2nd amendment and 10th amendment. I understand we are in real trouble not just fiscally but socially in many ways we have lost our moral compass. The progressive movement has and will continue to filter into government if we do not stand together and push back. I have no interest in making friends in Denver we are in trouble and the madness is being perpetuated by a lack of conservatives standing on their principles.

4. I will out work my opponent and make voters understand there is a difference between a conservative and a republican. We have many with an R behind their name that have lost their way.

5. I just read a list of values, 374 of them to be exact. When you go through a list that long you start to realize everyone will have a different set they will apply. The most important that stood out to me were family, faith and dependability. Duty also seems to fit how I feel these days. I feel we all have a duty to get this right or pay a dear price.

6. I feel my parents were the most influential. I lost my father to cancer when I was 18 but in the short time we had his values were amazing to me. My father in law also taught me generosity. He gave without ever expecting a thing in return. My mother of course taught me discipline and determination.

7. Faith is something I really think we learn over time. We are not born with it we take it for granted until we realize something greater than we are is controlling our lives. Family is more powerful than any force of nature it can make or break you if you do not have a family to hold onto. None of us have the market cornered on virtue, we have all made mistakes but must try everyday to let our principles guide us.

8. I don’t know that I would call it “ugly”, more like encouraging. People have been awakened to real politics and what happens behind the scenes. I know as a new candidate I have been enlightened to the system and how it really works. I am also amazed at how just a few can control the outcome of any election. People’s eyes have been opened in the last two years and I believe it is just the beginning.

9. There were some hints early that I had a hidden criminal record. I have never been in the witness protection program so I don’t know how it could be hidden. Other than that zero.

10. It is not the first website I have seen against someone entering politics and I’m sure it won’t be the last. The information is from the candidate’s own actions and words.

RAY SCOTT
Republican Candidate
for Colorado District 54

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Grand Junction, CO 81505