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Jeff Hurd is a strong supporter of banning Members of Congress from trading stocks to ensure career politicians don’t put their own personal gain ahead of the hard-working people they are supposed to be representing. When Jeff Hurd’s mother was diagnosed with cancer, he had to drive her to Denver as well as go out of state for her treatment. He will make expanding health care access for rural Colorado a top priority.

In Congress Jeff Hurd secured $40 million in federal funding for the Shoshone Water Rights Preservation Project which will stop the diversion of our water, help our farmers and will strengthen our local economy.

Jeff Hurd is a Colorado native, a husband, a father of five, and an attorney committed to serving his community and improving life in rural Colorado. He works with, and for, critical service providers in the state—including electric cooperatives, counties, school districts, fire districts, and broadband providers.

Jeff Hurd:

• Colorado Newsline: Rep. Hurd emphasizes need for consistent, predictable energy policies at Denver roundtable
• The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: Hurd joins Colorado Dems in urging authorization of Small Business Development Center funding
• Colorado Public Radio: Shutdowns should not be used as policy leverage, Rep. Jeff Hurd says
• The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: Federal money secured for Shoshone water rights purchase
• The Pueblo Chieftain: CO-3 House Rep. Jeff Hurd backs bill to keep SNAP funded through government shutdown
• Colorado Public Radio: Colorado Rep. Jeff Hurd signs on to letter urging House leadership ‘to preserve’ Medicaid
• Colorado Public Radio: Hurd working ‘behind the scenes’ to unfreeze funds for critical water rights purchase
• Colorado Newsline: Rep. Hurd introduces bipartisan bill to extend health care subsidies for two years

Dwayne Romero:

• The Aspen Times: Suit claims sexual harassment, age discrimination against Aspen-area company
  • “The Romero Group did not have a human resources department to which Yochem could report his allegations, so he took them to Dwayne Romero but he ‘was deliberately indifferent to it,’ the suit alleges. In the wake of Yochem’s meeting with Romero, he then became the target of a campaign waged by his higher-ups to remove him by ‘creating a false paper trail regarding anything they thought that could be used to get rid of (Yochem),’ the suit alleges. After he was fired, The Romero Group replaced Yochem with a younger, less qualified property manager, the suit contends.”
• Aspen Public Radio: Aspen council may change policy on conflicts of interest
  • “The mayor of Aspen is considering asking his colleagues to tweak a city rule that would minimize conflicts of interest among elected officials. Right now, the city’s rules around ethics only address employees. They’re not allowed under law to work for anyone in the private sector for six months after leaving their job if the move puts them in a situation where they do or appear to have a conflict of interest. The rule doesn’t apply to elected leaders. If it applied to that group, former councilman Dwayne Romero would not be able to work for his current employer, Mark Hunt. Hunt is a developer. One of Romero’s last actions before leaving office was approving Hunt’s controversial Base 2 lodge project. … Meanwhile, an Aspen resident filed a lawsuit against the city related to Romero’s role in the Base 2 decision. That suit is now being handled by the city’s insurance company.”
• The Aspen Times: Romero-Hunt alliance passes city muster
  • “One of Dwayne Romero’s last actions as an Aspen city councilman was voting in favor of the Base2 Lodge on June 1. Less than three months later, on Aug. 24, Romero sat beside Base2 developer Mark Hunt at a City Council meeting concerning the project, which is in the hands of Aspen voters after a citizen referendum forced the issue to a vote. Romero’s newfound business alliance with Hunt has some tongues wagging that there was a conflict of interest because he previously sat on the very council that approved Base2. … Had Romero been a state lawmaker in a similar situation, the Colorado Constitution would have precluded him from joining forces with Hunt for two years. The constitution “further restricts members of the General Assembly and statewide elected officials from serving as lobbyists for two years after leaving office,” reads the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission’s handbook for 2013-15.”
• The Denver Post: Editorial: Colorado needs full-time leaders
  • “That leads us to Dwayne Romero, Gov. John Hickenlooper’s choice to lead the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade. If that sounds like an important position, that’s because it is. And Romero will earn $146,040 for the expertise he brings. Or he would have earned that much — except that, over the next six months, he’ll be moonlighting with his old firm. That means he works only a four day week for the state. On weekends, he heads up to Aspen — yeah, Aspen — to work on his old job at an investment firm. OK, he’s taking a 20 percent pay cut for his four-day workweek. But he’s also presumably taking a 20 percent time cut. Can we afford that? In this economy, where jobs are scarce, it would seem we need a full-time economic development director. But Romero says not to worry, the state already has ‘a chief economic development officer’ in Hickenlooper.”