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Jeff Ravage
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Jeff Ravage (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Colorado State Senate to represent District 4. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Ravage completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Jeff Ravage was born in Anderson, Indiana. He earned a bachelor's degree from Montana State University in 1986. His career experience includes working as a watershed coordinator.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Colorado State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for Colorado State Senate District 4
Mark Baisley defeated Jeff Ravage in the general election for Colorado State Senate District 4 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Mark Baisley (R) | 60.8 | 55,595 |
Jeff Ravage (D)  | 39.2 | 35,789 | ||
| Total votes: 91,384 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Lori Boydston (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Colorado State Senate District 4
Jeff Ravage advanced from the Democratic primary for Colorado State Senate District 4 on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Jeff Ravage | 100.0 | 13,899 | |
| Total votes: 13,899 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Colorado State Senate District 4
Mark Baisley advanced from the Republican primary for Colorado State Senate District 4 on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mark Baisley | 100.0 | 27,038 |
| Total votes: 27,038 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jeff Ravage completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Ravage's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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My job is that of a forestry practitioner, that means I actively work in logging, conservation and ecological research. I am a lover of nature and all its facets, including, and above all, people. I have spent over a decade in the forests and the fields of the new Senate District 4, and know many of people personally. I believe in democracy, truth and fairness, no matter how underrated those things are these days.
- 1) Wildfire, insects and disease are about to eliminate up to 75% of our western forests by 2100. That's good-bye to the logging industry, much of the Ag industry and the recreation industry. Our current budget to address this issue is 100 to 1000 times smaller than the problem. That was not a typo, we need billions, not millions or we're just emptying the ocean with a dixie cup.
- 2) Our economy is thriving, but the public sector is denied the ability to share in this wealth. The continued upward distribution of wealth is an environmental issue because it ties the hands of the government and holds the people hostage while ice caps melt and rivers dry up.
- 3) The continued stranglehold exerted by the fossil fuels industry is slowing adaptation to new energies. We're still subsidizing fracking and oil extraction, while throwing hurdles in front of solar, wind and geothermal technologies. Our current energy scenario pollutes our land, rivers and sky.
The environment, Education, Infrastructure and the sustainability of our way of life. Social and Economic justice are environmental justice, and being wholly human-constructs, requires the will and effort of the people to actualize. So our ability to communicate with each other is primary.
Albert Einstein, He forever changed how we view the world, the universe, everything but ourselves. He demonstrated the ability of a single mind to create a fantastic future. He also demonstrated that the world will resist changing to it if they don't have to. Which is why we need to start every day with optimism and perseverance. Because we still have a Newtonian society, awaiting the news that everything is relative and we are made of star matter. We are all made of stars. And Dr. Einstein did that everyday of his life without the need of fame or fortune.
"The Green Evolution"
Fairness, Patience, and the ability to listen before speaking.
Patience, Passion, Productivity
To carry out the duties they were sworn in for.
A world that is still capable of supporting life.
Watergate would be the most important event. Sure we landed on the moon, and it was a major coup, but Nixon reminded us all that the most powerful country in the world was ruled by those who preferred 13th century power to modern freedom. And it wasn't something hidden, America's sins were worn on the sleeves of an entire class of men. Those in power.
I washed pots at the Washakie cafeteria at the University of Wyoming. I stayed there for almost 4 years. I was able to meet an endless variety of foreign students, many in the Sciences and Literature, stuck in the back of the kitchen washing pots because they weren't white. I dodged almost every chance to "advance" because I learned as much, if not more in the pot room than in the school room. This is where I learned that a mind is the most powerful thing on the planet.
Partners. Often, the governor is seen as the policy setter and the legislature as the body with the means to enact that policy. But it should be a shared vision, where sometimes the Governor sets the table, and other times where he takes the back seat and enforces (executes) the vision of the people (legislature). Kind of like a good marriage where sometimes one leads on the dance floor, and then they can switch. Rigid power structures always function less efficiently than partnerships.
Climate change. Our State has a lot invested on the outdoors, From the skiers who flock to the slopes that may, by the end of the century, no ;onger hold snowpack. To the fields that could soon dry up like the Colorado River basin has already begun to. Our forest might well burn down and the released sediment pollute every basin and reservoir. Currently, there is an entire major political party who's policy it is to deny and ignore what is happening. It is certain they will do nothing to help mitigate global warming, so the worst possible outcomes should be expected. It we continue to avoid until 2032, there won't be a lot we can do to alter out hurtling trajectory.
It is an existential crisis.
It is an existential crisis.
The legislature is supposed to be of the people. That being said, some awareness of how it works would be useful. Civics classes, debate, Extempore speaking are all things we have let fall by the wayside that would be very helpful for those interested in lawmaking. It's not about power or status. The Senate is a job and working in policy and research are desirable predicates for success in that job.
Of course. Very few people can write an effective bill on their own. And then you'll need help getting time and space for your bill. It is an inherently team sport.
It should be performed by uninterested artificially intelligent robots.
Just kidding- had to make sure you hadn't fallen asleep yet.
Yes compromise is the essence of consensus. But we exist in an age where one political party refuses to compromise, holding out for the other to concede just a little bit more. So policy has been drifting past right to rightwing. And the Democrats keep conceding more and more, we just feel we have to be so damn reasonable. Finally we could end up denying not just climate change, but reality itself. And then extinction will claim us. So today, we need compromise from the right, they need to acknowledge reality. And then we can work together to fix our issues.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 20, 2022
Current members of the Colorado State Senate
Leadership
Senate President:James Coleman
Majority Leader:Robert Rodriguez
Minority Leader:Cleave Simpson
Senators
District 1
Byron Pelton (R)
District 2
Lisa Frizell (R)
District 3
Nick Hinrichsen (D)
District 4
Mark Baisley (R)
District 5
Marc Catlin (R)
District 6
Cleave Simpson (R)
District 7
Janice Rich (R)
District 8
Dylan Roberts (D)
District 9
District 10
Larry Liston (R)
District 11
Thomas Exum (D)
District 12
Marc Snyder (D)
District 13
Scott Bright (R)
District 14
Cathy Kipp (D)
District 15
Janice Marchman (D)
District 16
Chris Kolker (D)
District 17
Katie Wallace (D)
District 18
Judy Amabile (D)
District 19
District 20
Lisa Cutter (D)
District 21
Dafna Jenet (D)
District 22
Jessie Danielson (D)
District 23
District 24
Kyle Mullica (D)
District 25
Faith Winter (D)
District 26
Jeff Bridges (D)
District 27
Tom Sullivan (D)
District 28
Mike Weissman (D)
District 29
Iman Jodeh (D)
District 30
John Carson (R)
District 31
Matt Ball (D)
District 32
Robert Rodriguez (D)
District 33
James Coleman (D)
District 34
Julie Gonzales (D)
District 35
Rod Pelton (R)
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