The Issues

RTD’s in a serious pickle-with current funding, Fastracks can NOT be finished in 2017 as promised to the voters. Period!  Fix #1- do what you can, then stop.  How will we make “whole” to those  voters who have paid taxes with expectation of lite-rail?  Fix#2-stretch project into future as money allows. Upside- better technology will provide better lines in future. Downside-will cost more and no one has a crystal ball when it would end- 2034? Unlikely.  Fix #3-Public Public Partnerships- Not now.  Funded developers aren’t standing in line to invest, remember we’re in a credit crisis.  Fix# 4-Increase sales tax.  Would require realistic cost that factors in “worst case scenario” and a definite end date.  Realistically, going to voters for more taxes would be a referendum on Fastracks.  In post election economy everything will change.   I say wait, look at combination of fixes before going to ballot box.

Ramey Johnson, Candidate RTD Board

 

The following issues have been of vital importance to Ramey over the course of her first term as State Representative:

Health Care
  • Fighting for affordable medical care
  • Stopping substandard nursing home care
  • Protecting dignity of older Coloradans
  • Demanded accountability at Fitzsimmons
  • Supporting Medical Savings Accounts (MSA)
  • Sponsored two senior health fairs
 

Transportation
  • Encourages multi-faceted use of highways and transit options
  • Respects each community's special needs and character
  • Sponsored three 6th Avenue summits dealing with increasing noise concerns impacting property values and quality of life
 
Resources Business & Economy
  • Supported water property rights
  • Voted for local control of water solutions
  • Recommends repairing existing reservoirs before building more
  • Working to develop clean and affordable energy options
  • Opposes duplicate governmental services/laws
  • Provide an educated workforce for the future
  • Help small business survive
  • Strengthened laws to prevent ID theft
  • Advocated for rights of trailer park residents
 

Ramey was prime sponsor of the following common sense bills, all signed into law by the Governor:
  • Hospitals must now notify the patient PRIOR to turning in their name to a collection agency that they have bad debt under their name. If your insurance company did not pay the bill, the patient should not be the last one to know that.
  • If a person frauduently reports abuse or neglect regarding at-risk adults to social services it is now a misdemenor, the same as fraudulent reporting of child abuse. 20% of the cases reported to social services regarding adult abuse are "family members creating problems for other family members."
  • If you elect to have your diagnosis/symptom on your prescriptive drug label, it will be there. Typically, seniors take 8-12 prescription meds per day and often don't know why they are taking them. Colorado is the first state in the nation to pass such legislation.
  • A study was created to explore the benefits of moving the Colorado Geological Survey to the Colorado School of Mines. This would remove it from TABOR restrictions, thereby opening up the ability to recieve more grant money.
  • Anyone using the title "nurse" must now have the education, licensure, and expertise of that title. People expect a certain amount of trust and confidentiality when they confide in a nurse.
  • Two bills close some of the loopholes in the child pornography laws.
  • Worker's compensation benefits have been strengthened and much of the red tape has been cut.
  • First year college students will now recieve disclosure of the availablity of the meningitis vacine. There is an 8% increase of meningitis incidents among freshman college students in communal living on college campuses.
  • The State Veteran's Home at Fitzsimmons will continue to provide quality care to veterans, and benefits will not decrease.
 
 

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