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It is sad to see Sen. Josh Penry indulge his campaign contributors from the gas and oil industry by taking such cheap, partisan potshots at Garfield County Commissioner Tresi Houpt during her Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission conformation hearings. With respect, that sort of thing doesn’t help the situation in any way, and, frankly, I expected better from him.
I respect Penry’s willingness to challenge his base when it came to the De Beque waste pit issue and the oil shale commercial leasing mandate. I also understand the political dynamics that preclude him from feeling celebratory just now. But, really, “industry enemy number one”?
Penry should rethink his participation in this political posturing, apologize to Commissioner Houpt and help us write some good, workable rules. We made some real progress during the COGCC stakeholder meetings and there are reasonable voices in the industry who are ready to work it out.
Sadly, those voices do not hold sway in Colorado. Please do not fall prey to the influence that says misinformation and hyperbole are the way to go. Colorado citizens deserve protection from the world’s wealthiest and most powerful industry, not a bunch of political infighting and overheated rhetoric. The monster drilling mud spills on the Roan Plateau add to a long list of evidence that new rules are needed badly and soon.
Take a step back, then, and think about a different approach. Cooperation instead of condemnation, respect instead of attack. Penry’s constituents are counting on him to do the right thing. Making those comments about Tresi Houpt wasn’t the right thing.
DUKE COX
Interim Director
Western Colorado Congress
Grand Junction
7 Responses to “Penry should rethink comments on Commissioner Houpt”
Posted March 20th, 2008 at 1:49 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
“Cooperation instead of condemnation”?
Isn’t that the same as “do as we say and we’ll all get along”?
Or “Resistance is futile earthling”?
interim director? That the same as “until somebody qualified comes along”?
We’ll start “respecting” as soon as the drivel driven lackies you support stop attacking OUR values and attempting to destroy our country and way of life.
Ya know Duke, the two greatest problems this Nation faces is ignorance and stupidity.
Ignorance can be cured through education. Not the type of “education” present in the local government indoctrination and brainwashing centers, but earned education through the persons own efforts of discovering the facts.
Stupidity is the refusal to educate yourself, or relying on what somebody tells you to think.
In essence, stupidity cannot be cured.
Posted March 20th, 2008 at 5:36 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Many of us happen to believe that Mr. Penry is RIGHT ON!
You know, I learned along time ago that if an environmental group is in favor of something then it must be bad for America and the local community and if an environmental group is opposed to something then it must be good.
They have yet to prove me wrong!
Posted March 20th, 2008 at 6:25 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Ditto!
Posted March 21st, 2008 at 8:19 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
“rexall” says: You know, I learned along time ago that if an environmental group is in favor of something then it must be bad for America and the local community and if an environmental group is opposed to something then it must be good.
They have yet to prove me wrong!
Generalizations and blanket statements such as this are so off base it’s humorous. I thought that maybe you were a real thinker, rexall. Apparently not. If Penry had a (D) behind his name, would you still say “right on”?
Making environmentalism a political issue is misguided, at least.
Posted March 21st, 2008 at 9:04 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
If Penry had a(D) behind his name he would not have said what he said now would he?
Environmentalism IS a political issue.
Posted March 21st, 2008 at 9:16 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
But Roland,
“environmentalism” IS a political issue.
There is no HUMAN CAUSED “globular warming”.
Unless you are ready to ’splain why the “ice caps” on Mars are getting smaller without our help.
Or why “greenhouse gases” are going to cause the barren deserts the nutjobs keep portraying on TV as the end result of those gases.
Or why, a few days ago, the nice folks by Rifle were complaining about an over abundance of Ozone, when there is a shortage of Ozone over Antartica?
Which would also put you in the position of trying to explain why it’s only greenhouse gases in the Northern Hemisphere that causes the hole in the Ozone Layer, but our homegrown Ozone can’t find it’s way down there to fill it back up.
Or perhaps why we keep being told the Earth is going to burn up next week if we don’t do something now, when the highest temperature year in the last century was in the 1930s, BEFORE the massive increase in the use of them evil hydrocarbons.
Or, maybe even, why algore is making so much money off unproven whacky theories that keep getting disproven by reality….
I do still have some carbon credits for sale…
Cheap too, Special today only price $25000 per unit…
Posted June 12th, 2008 at 5:29 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
While I respect Commissioner Houpt’s defense of protecting certain drill spots, it is my belief that she should not be in any position that “affects a 23-billion dollar” industry.
Given her behavior as a Garfield County Commissioner she has dealt unfair and unjust blows to business owners in the county effectively closing their doors because a real estate agent moved in after the fact and complained about a 25 year old business. The worst part, is she ignored a district court judge, first-hand testimony from five people, and mounts of evidence. Larry McCown, another Garfield County Commissioner, called the evidence presented to the overwhelming. Yet given this overwhelming evidence they refused to listen to it and shut down a 25 year old excavation company in Carbondale, Colorado.
A grass roots petition website has been created with a petition of over 150 people and growing. Over 50 people have left comments on how outrageous their behavior was along with all of the transcripts and documents in the case.
If this is an indicator to her behavior, it would not surprise me if after she gets comfortable and “makes a name for herself” she will be susceptible to bending to special interest groups.
Tresi Houpt does not have the best wishes of Garfield County in mind, nor its economy. She is up for reelection this November in the Garfield County Board of Commissioners and already petition drives are being created as well as full campaigns to make sure she no longer represents Garfield County.
For more information, visit http://www.stopGARCOinjustice.com to read more of her atrocities in Garfield County, Colorado. Efforts are underway to collect letters from their supporters and email-blast them off to a media database of over 4,000 names that include national, state, and local news papers, radio stations, governors offices, mayors offices, and corruption investigation groups.
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