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Letter to the Editor:
B. J. Nikkel is not the advocate for taxpayers and children that she claims to be. First of all, you don’t file to sue the Larimer County Sheriff’s office for $10 million putting the screws to the county taxpayers on the expectation that your son’s arrest charges will be reduced. Secondly, you don’t brag about the awards you have received for pointing out deficiencies in social programs that you have worked consistently to de-fund. Third, you don’t vote to cut taxes for the very wealthy at the expense of funding educational programs that would help disadvantaged and disabled children. And fourth, you don’t undermine families’ private reproductive choices by working to pass a “personhood” amendment that would give legal rights to the 150- cell zygote that has yet to implant in the womb.
Karen Stockley is the advocate we need in the state house.
Karen will be work to improve the quality of education, increasing performance while managing the bottom line. And she will work to keep Colorado a beautiful place to live. Karen will fight to protect the things that we love about living in Colorado. Vote for Karen Stockley District 49.
Susan Altenhofen
Fort Collins, Colorado
You're right, Susan. Those cops who shoot at unarmed teenagers at a party and the prosecutors who bully people into pleading guilty to lesser charge by threatening them with more serious charges to cover their hind-ends all have our best interests at heart, and we should all support that behavior. I can only assume by your post that you will be supporting the retention of Gilmore and Blair, and that selfish people like Timothy Masters are out try to "put the screws to the taxpayers".
You cannot point to a single action that B.J. Nikkel has done to try and "defund" these services–it is not all about money anyway. Simply because we expect these departments to run efficiently does not mean they should be allowed to commit abuses. B.J. has done a great job to shed light on defficiencies of HHS, and of abuses at the Platte Valley Youth Detention Facility. Your implication that these abuses are acceptable unless we give them more money are inexcusable.
Karen Stockley has her hand out to the state for more education money. What has she done to raise revenue from the Thompson School District itself–the consituency that should be paying TSD? Nothing. She has been in a position as a board member to do something about, and has done nothing. I have no patience for school district officials who complain about infringements on local control, and constantly have their hands out to the state and feds for more money.
Which Karen Stockley should we believe? The Stockley who sent me an email stating that she would have supported the "Dirty Dozen" tax increases this year, or the Stockley who stated at the Estes Park debate that she would have opposed them?
Which Karen Stockley should we believe? The Stockley who states that she is a Second Amendment supporter, or the Stockley who received an F rating from the NRA and was labeled as an "Enemy of the Second Amendment" and "Actively works against firearm rights" by the Firearms Coalition?
Karen Stockley has revealed herself to be nothing but a left-wing liar who will say anything to try and get elected. Certainly not what America needs, not what Colorado needs, and definitely not the kind of person the 49th HD needs representing them.
BJ Nikkel has too much baggage from two very serious incidents that occurred in her family, both of which make her an unfit candidate. Her filing of a $10 million dollar lawsuit against Larimer County taxpayers is a red flag that she is not the fiscal conservative you had hoped. She filed this lawsuit as the result of her son being arrested for attempted murder. So in effect she was putting the screws the the Larimer County taxpayers for her own selfish gain. What was she thinking? And to compare this incident to repaying the Tim Masters debt that we owe him for his illegal incarceration is not anywhere near the same thing.
And to bring up the gun issue is pretty poor in light of Ms. Nikkel's involvement in another incident, this time a tragedy.
This same son's friend was killed by a gunshot wound at the Nikkel's home. So Nikkel is hardly the poster girl that the NRA is looking for to affirm gun rights. If anything, this tragedy begs the question of teenagers having unsupervised access to loaded weapons..
Your attempts to brush off a legitimate attempt by Rep. Nikkel to reign in overzealous prosecution in a case where officers unjustifiably opened fire on unarmed teenagers and needed to provide cover is disgusting. The comparison to the Timothy Masters case is completely appropriate as both involved prosecutorial and law enforcement misconduct. Your implied approval of such misconduct in the case against Rep. Nikkel’s son, if based upon principle, must also indicate an approval on your part of such misconduct on the parts of Gilmore in Blair. Otherwise, you are merely exhibiting the hypocracy well exhibited by the left and by the candidate you are supporting. Your attempts to describe a citizen’s legitimate attempt to hold law enforcement accountable as “putting the screws to the taxpayers” is shameful politicking at best.
Rep. Nikkel’s credentials for upholding the rights of citizens to defend themselves are solid. Your attempt to take a tragic situation and use it for a cheap political shot is disgusting, especially in light of Stockley’s blatant hypocracy and lies about her supposed support for rights enumerated under the Second Amendment, which have been thoroughly exposed.