For Immediate Release
Kaarl Hoopes
Colorado HD 32 Candidate
(303) 808-5885
(303) 990-9932
kaarlhoopes@gmail.com
4/9/2010
County delegates vote overwhelming for HD-32 candidate Kaarl Hoopes. Hoopes receives 87% of delegate vote at Saturday’s Adams County Assembly.
Colorado House District-32 candidate Kaarl Hoopes received overwhelming support from his district delegates at the Adams County Assembly last Saturday beating his only competitor Al Jacobson. Since Jacobson did not get the required 30% of the delegates to make it onto the primary ballot in August, Hoopes is guaranteed to be the Republican candidate to challenge the current HD-32 representative Edward Casso.
“For the last four years, Rep. Casso has voted consistently to raise fees and increase regulations, which has increased the cost of doing business in Colorado. This hurts employers and employees during the worse economic recession since the 1930s,” Hoopes said. “We need to get our fiscal house in order and HD-32 needs a change.”
Rep. Casso’s tax-raising record is so bad that the Colorado Union of Taxpayers (CUT) gave him a 3.13% rating in 2009, the second lowest among 65 House legislators. Hoopes in contrast signed the CUT pledge to oppose any tax increases, limit government spending, and to honor and uphold the spirit as well as the letter of TABOR.
Hoopes has received the following endorsements:
Former U.S. Senator and C.U. President Hank Brown
Former U.S. Senator and current C.C.U. President Bill Armstrong
Former State Senate President and Founder of the Independence Institute John Andrews
Former State Representative Eric Prinzler
Former Colorado Union of Taypayers President Penn Pfiffner
Former State Representative Pat Miller
HD-32 Opponent Jeff Gerdes
“Kaarl Hoopes will make a real difference in the Colorado General Assembly.”
- Former U.S. Senator and C.U. President Hank Brown
“In a year when citizens have had it with a state government out of touch and out of control, Kaarl Hoopes is exactly the kind of common-sense conservative we need in the Colorado House.”
- Former State Senate President and Found of the Independence Institute
“We need elected officials who will do what they say. Kaarl Hoopes will stand by any promise he makes, especially on the controversial issues. We need his vote on every pro-life issue.”
- Former State Representative Pat Miller
4/1/2010
Former Senator and CU President Hank Brown endorses Kaarl Hoopes
Brown believes Hoopes will make a real difference in General Assembly
Kaarl Hoopes is thrilled to have the support of a man the Wall Street Journal called, “the best college president you've never heard of” for his campaign to become HD-32’s next representative. Hank Brown has a long history of public involvement in Colorado starting with the Colorado State Senate, then as a Congressman for the CD-4, then U.S. Senator, and finally as college presidents for the University of Northern Colorado and Colorado University. Brown gave his endorsement to Hoopes shortly after the two met together at the end of March.
“You will make a real difference in the Colorado General Assembly,” Brown stated in Hoopes’ handwritten endorsement letter.
Hoopes admires Brown as a statesman who most recently received wide acclaim for stabilizing CU after becoming the university’s president in 2005. At the time, the public institution was rocked by a sex scandal in the athletic department and the national attention generated from the ranting and fraudulent scholarship of one of its professors: Ward Churchill. The National Western Stock Show later gave Hank the prestigious Citizen of the West award, an honor the Denver Post wrote was, “a well-deserved honor.” Hoopes aspires to follow in Brown’s impressive, public-service footsteps as he runs against HD-32 incumbent Edward Casso this November.
Hoopes describes himself as a “conservative Republican candidate.” He believes Colorado’s economic recovery is being hampered by the excessive regulatory policies and fee increases implemented by the current Democrat- controlled administration and legislature. Hoopes believes in free market solutions and supports policies to limit the size of government. On education, he plans to advance school choice policies and better partnerships between the business and education communities. Hoopes believes in keeping taxes low for citizens and businesses, and strongly rejects increasing fees as a tactic to circumvent the Tax Payer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) without a vote of the people.
In regards to healthcare, Hoopes believes we can preserve our world-class healthcare system while improving access and reducing costs by encouraging free market solutions. He wants to see Colorado develop a full range of energy resources, such as wind, solar, and geothermal, but at the same time abolish the excessive regulations and fees that have hampered oil development and eliminated thousands of Colorado jobs and millions in tax revenue.
Hoopes moved to Colorado from Alaska 25 years ago and currently lives with his wife Karen in Thornton. He also has two grown children. Hoopes owns a small business and works as a Network Administrator providing networking services to IBM, where he is responsible for over a 1000 servers, which handle billions of dollars of critical inter-bank transfers.