Thirty-five years ago this week: Gloria Gonzales Roemer, director of finance and awareness of the Denver County Republican Party, announced that she would ask for the appointment of the GOP to overthrow the Democrat representative of the United States, Pat Schroeder, for the election of the 1st Congress district.
Roemer told Colorado Statesman that it was his strong experience in the business and his intimate knowledge of the city of Denver which was vital to ensure the prominence of Denver in the world economy.
“Small businesses are the backbone of Denver’s economy,” said Roemer. “The government must provide an atmosphere in which it can prosper. Job creation helps not only the economy, but it maintains families together. ”
Roemer said that she had also been pushed to ask for elections due to her deep concern rooted for the Hispanic community, including the school abandonment rate, the number of commercial and house seizures, an increasing tide of gang violence and the lack of funding for social programs.
“A good example is the Headstart program, for which Denver has received the lowest funding from any urban area,” said Roemer. “Someone has to take Denver’s concerns in Washington and find a solution to our current economic and social programs. I will do exactly that. “
Schroeder, elected for the first time in 1973, served his fourth term in the American house.
In other news, “what the world needs is to develop an environmental ethics,” said Governor Roy Romer at the Event of the Writers’ Panel of the American Society of Newspaper to discuss the question: “Environmental protection is more discussion than action”.
“We operated with an ethics of the border – a based on the taming of the earth,” said Romer. “Now we have to change and focus on developing the planet management.”
Romer was joined by Jean Michael Cousteau, vice-president of the Cousteau Society, and the former Gaylord senator Nelson, D-WI, who was one of the main organizers of the first day of the earth in 1970.
To support better management of the planet, Romer called for the packaging of products in “environmentally friendly” materials, solar cars, fluorescent lighting and the construction of econetic houses.
“There may be a balance between economic and environmental concerns,” said Romer. “But, as in the case of Rocky Flats nuclear plants near Boulder – the environment must come first. The rocky apartments should never have been built so close to Denver in the first place.”
While being deeply favorable to environmental protection policies, Romer also warned that the legislatures should rush with caution when they settle on the development of regulations to ensure that they were both reasonable and enforceable.
“We have to be careful to establish regulations that create criminals,” said Romer.
Nelson said he couldn’t agree with Romer and because the concern of the environment was a political problem, she had to be approached in the political arena. Nelson pleaded for a new school program from kindergarten to high school to teach children the environment
“The governed must understand what is going on to the planet,” said Nelson. “If people destroy something that is done by man, they are known as Vandals. But when they destroy something irreplaceable that is done by God, we call them developers.”
“There is a critical need to restructure all levels of society,” said Cousteau. “We must guarantee a pension system for everyone so that they do not feel that they must have 10 or 12 children in order to survive it to take care of them in their old age.”
Rachael Wright is the author of several novels, including the twins of Strathnaver, with diplomas in political science and history of Colorado Mesa University, and is a writer contributing to Colorado politics, Colorado Springs Gazette and the Gazette de Denver.