Emergency management
The governor is our state’s commander-in-chief. Gov. Ritter is solely responsible for all facets of emergency management throughout Colorado, which includes DIA, oil refineries, interstate highway system, etc. All praises to him/her “on-high", Rocky Flats is closed. Owens continually showed his incompetence during multiple rock and mudslides on I-70 and Hwy. 6. He was ignorant of the fact, President Ike created our nation’s interstate highway system for the following reasons: (1) national security - to move troops and their equipment, (2) commerce, and (3) going to grandma’s house and the ski slopes. Owens allowed prolonged weeks of gridlock on these vital transportation arteries, simply because he was incompetent and he had successfully put the bipartisan legislative body in a mushroom state of mind. Astonishingly, the generals and admirals at Ft. Carson, NORAD, National Guard, and Space Command, never complained about this issue. In their defense though, they know Owens and Bush, both have a history of firing senior military officers that don’t agree with them and their reckless decisions.
The state gov’t should “trot-out” its emergency management plans, so they can be scrutinized by the citizenry and to train the public in general. Coloradoans are starting to reap what it has sown with regards to incompetent emergency managers. The ball started rolling when Butch Montoya (video-journalist) was appointed Denver Public Safety Manager. He was replaced with LaCabe (prosecutor/cop). Owens (draft-dodger) advertised the state emergency director’s position for public competition, lo and be hold, his GOP crony, inept George Epp (cop-draft dodger), was illegally politically appointed (violation of U.S.Senate appropriations/state constitution) to the position. Did I mention I applied for this job with my federal 10 point FEMA hiring preference?
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