A Tip on Ryan

DCCC runs billboard ad targeting rep.

Monday, April 9, 2012 | 1:34 p.m.

The DCCC "is running an anti Rep. Scott Tipton (R) ad on a big billboard flying over North Avenue in Grand Junction." The billboard "targets Tipton's recent yes vote" on House Budget Cmte chairPaul Ryan's budget plan.

Tipton mgr. Mike Fortney responded in an email, saying that Pres. Obama's health care plan "severs the doctor patient relationship that is important to many seniors. ... If Democrats have it their way, an unaccountable, unelected board of Washington D.C. bureaucrats would be put in charge of making health care decisions for our country's seniors" (Sherry, Denver Post, 4/5).

No Secret Money Pot?!

On April 4, Tipton "held a roundtable discussion about jobs with about 15 people at the Durango Public Library. ... Throughout the discussion, Tipton... touted the 'Capital Access on Main Street Act,' a bill he is co-sponsoring... that would make it easier for community banks to loan money to small businesses."

Tipton: "Dodd Frank requires that banks give loans to people who can demonstrate the ability to repay the loan, which sounds sensible and is sensible. But they are looking at a one-year window. ... CAMS would allow banks, particularly community banks, to look at someone's ability to repay the loan over the course of seven years. We have to let banks be banks."

Tipton "said local businesses often were encumbered by onerous and inept regulations."

In a meeting with the ed board of The Durango Herald on April 4, Tipton "reiterated his opposition to government's zealous intervention in business, said Congress should lower and flatten tax rates, and decried the growth of the national debt." Tipton: "We cannot overstate the impact of the national debt. We've deluded ourselves that there's a secret pot of money out there – no, it's called debt" (Olivarius-Mcallister, Durango Herald, 4/4).