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Tim Long (Colorado)
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Tim Long (Colorado Center Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Colorado's 8th Congressional District. He lost as a write-in in the general election on November 8, 2022.
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Biography
Tim Long was born in Glendale, California. He earned a bachelor's degree from Concordia College at Moorhead in 1969 and a graduate degree from the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine in 1971. His career experience includes working as a healthcare executive. He has also worked in financial bond development; physician recruitment; continuing education; novel writing; professional technical writing; appraising healthcare facilities, organizations, and brick/mortar buildings; and international business. Long has been affiliated with the American Anthroposophy Association, Order of Indian Wars, the North Metro Fire Rescue District, and the Special Districts Association (SDA). He previously was affiliated with the American College of Healthcare Executives, University Club - Denver, the Visiting Nurse Association, and Little League.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Colorado's 8th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Colorado District 8
Yadira Caraveo defeated Barbara Kirkmeyer, Richard Ward, and Tim Long in the general election for U.S. House Colorado District 8 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Yadira Caraveo (D) | 48.4 | 114,377 |
 | Barbara Kirkmeyer (R)  | 47.7 | 112,745 | |
| Richard Ward (L) | 3.9 | 9,280 | ||
 | Tim Long (Colorado Center Party) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 99 | |
| Total votes: 236,501 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Matthew Payette (Independent)
- Steve Zorn (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Colorado District 8
Yadira Caraveo advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Colorado District 8 on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Yadira Caraveo | 100.0 | 38,837 |
| Total votes: 38,837 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Joshua Rodriguez (D)
- Chaz Tedesco (D)
- Johnny Humphrey (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Colorado District 8
Barbara Kirkmeyer defeated Jan Kulmann, Lori Saine, and Tyler Allcorn in the Republican primary for U.S. House Colorado District 8 on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Barbara Kirkmeyer | 39.0 | 22,724 |
 | Jan Kulmann | 23.0 | 13,398 | |
 | Lori Saine | 21.2 | 12,357 | |
 | Tyler Allcorn | 16.7 | 9,743 | |
| Total votes: 58,222 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Joshua Rodriguez (R)
- Jewels Gray (R)
- Ryan Gonzalez (R)
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Tim Long completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Long's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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CU Hospital Administration MBA (Hospital Administration undergrad BA - Concordia College, Moorhead, MN - Letterman; past H.A. Alumni President; Presenter). 45 years of healthcare experience, foreign & domestic, in career marked by fast-track advancement & executive management resolution of tough challenges. Frequently tapped to lead turnarounds, negotiate acquisitions, plan hospital mergers, steer strategic programs & create joint ventures. Recognized as professional manager, strategic planner in market assessments and financial feasibility studies, medical practice appraiser, hospital & physician practice administrator, operations analyst with top-flight problem-solving and decision-making. Conducts strategic planning for schools, churches, medical practices, hospitals & Urban Renewal Agency establishing pro forma budgets & business plans. Appointed to Northglenn Urban Renewal Authority Board serving 7 years receiving 2011 Dedicated Service Award from Northglenn City Council. Elected onto North Metro Fire Rescue District – Board Member-Treasurer (May 2012 to Present) – 7 fire stations covering 63 sq. miles (5 counties-2 cities) serving 150,000 residents, 165 personnel - $40M budget.
Visiting Nurse Service and Waldorf Charter School Boards - BOND/PPM-Writer. Married-Donna K. Newberg-Long, PhD-Principal & School Founder (3); 6 grown children; 2 grandchildren. International Traveler; Outdoorsman; one-time Little League Coach; Published Author-Western History (2 novels).
- I just don't talk about America's broken Healthcare "non-system" but have ready-solutions involving "Primary Care Physicians," instituting "Accountable Care Organizations" originally designed by CMS-Medicare. Problems reside in profiteering-Hospital "Corporate Systems" unwillingness to take full financial risk for patient care outcomes. Solutions come with primary care physicians (PCPs) collaborative joint ventures with small ICU-oriented, Outpatient Surgery, Dx Imaging, real-time I.T. data-analytics all located in acute-care & rehab facilities. PCPs clinically oversee acute care protocols referred from 1st response urgent care-low-cost Concierge PCPs provide oversight to Specialists & short-term-stay discharges to outpatient settings.
- Schools should teach students how to think, not what to think. We want a Nation of free-thinking human beings who can solve tomorrow's problems. Foundations in history to secure a broad foundation in academic subjects such as history from many perspectives, how to communicate ideas verbal & written as well as how to work in teams. Parents should be able to choose schools for their children based on their individual needs & beliefs. Parents' voice matters in preparing children for a successful future. One way does not fit all. What do our children need to meet the challenges of their future with flexibility, resilience, creativity, social sensitivity and moral courage? This motivates our "teaching-the-teachers" organization-GRADALIS.
- My 'Servant Leadership' has me serving on a Fire District Board northwest of Denver where "All Hands on Deck" emptied our 7 firehouses last December fighting the Marshall Fire. Only the best training, equipment, gear, quality leadership, state-of-the-art communications lest lives would've been lost, more property destroyed. To even consider "defunding" first responders (law enforcement officers also) does a disservice to us all. As an elected official I now understand what First Responders deal with every day racing into Harm's Way, towards danger in order to keep the rest of us safe. This motivates my unfailing support to maintain highest standards of professionalism managing District finances.
Instead of a 87,000 IRS investigators, how about caring for "worthy" immigrants (some of our greatest resources) at the Border, to be properly vetted and swiftly? Congress needs to fix the policies to work for good people, support legal immigration while managing the Border. I would call for management audits throughout all federal agencies especially in Washington, D. C. Partisan politics is pulling our country apart. Tearing at our community fabric. Highly partisan political leaders constantly spew divisiveness and put their party ahead of our country. Whether its race or religion, or some political tribal identity, we get divided up and pitted against one another. We no longer trust our politicians or the news media because they have failed to be honest with us. We’re tired of being whip-lashed from left to right, having to dodge the political pendulum as it swings wildly from side to side. Elite Politicians humiliate "Common Folk" demeaning "Unaffiliated Voters" as fence-sitters. We cling to the hope that someday a few leaders will actually try to reach a broad, middle consensus, and reject the “my way or the highway” dysfunctional thinking now prevalent in our U.S. Capitol. Enter the Colorado Center Party meeting most of us who live there in the centrist-moderate-middle, i.e., 47% of CD-8! The sensible center is the place where problem solving comes about. It's the political party everyone's been waiting for like 62% of America relates in a Gallup Poll.
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens). He was a great writer, using a paucity of words to express thoughts, e.g., "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug." He addressed the issues of his times with humor. If one can use something that sounds silly or ridiculous at first glance to make a serious point, it may move the needle to find the compromise and middle ground that all can walk away with. Many times active listening going hand-in-hand with patience and perseverance finds the way to finding as accurate a picture as possible. Humor often shows a "trust-borne" relationship if it can avoid the taint of ridicule. Collaborative leadership outweighs solitary decision-making. Unfortunately more often than not today media-driven rhetoric strives for more spots, a wider audience, by promoting not listening to those who think differently and feel differently (excluding them altogether). Allowing only one theory, only one form of analysis or interpretation when there may well be more than one right answer. Setting one ethical-moral value above all others as the only way to get out of a crisis is wrought with pitfalls. In the exchange of perceptions and beliefs people learn from each another. Sharing ideas about what exists and how to proceed invigorates discussion. Sharing Strengths, Weaknesses (room for improvement), Opportunities and Threats gets people to think where they are, where they might go and possibly divine a roadmap on how to travel there … a better way…the “Good Road.” It’s about ACTIVE LISTENING, not anxiously awaiting to TALK. In the exchange of perceptions and beliefs people learn from each another. Sharing ideas about what exists and how to proceed invigorates discussion. Resonating themes do occur. These can lead to compromise, a dialogue, a solution. "What would Mark Twain do in such a situation?" For me, it's being a likable problem-solver with the right words.
Many of the greatest writers who have delved into human nature, demonstrating the best of us as well as illustrating the worst of us. Human Nature and facts are pesky things that need speed, dash and accuracy many times in the translation of determining what is right, not "mostly" right as per Mark Twain's definition of choosing the right word I illustrated earlier in this text - the difference of "lightning" and the "lightning bug!" Animal Farm; Lord of the Flies; Lord of the Rings series; Good Will Hunting movie; Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges (Otto Scharmer); Narrowing of Curriculum in the Age of Accountability (my wife's D.U. doctoral thesis-Donna K. Newberg-Long, PhD); Understanding Deeper Developmental Needs-Holistic Approaches for Challenging Behaviors in Children (Adam Blanning, MD); Chief Left Hand biography (Margaret Coel-Boulder); John Adams biography (David McCullough); Talking to Strangers-What We Should Know About People We Don't Know (Malcolm Gladwell); The Federalist Papers (debates & notes open thoughts); sand, Ernest Hemingway's best books. The "Something Else" would be five elements of effective writing; (1) Purpose - stated clearly & directly in opening sentences; (2) Organization - paragraph topic sentences check for omission, needless repetition, breaks in chronology, problems in logical development; (3) Support - common error to make an assertion without supporting it - not what you think but why you think it, and why they should believe you-substantiate one's argument/s being more specific, detailed and relevant with one's evidence . . . which is why I would attend Congressional Committees taking copious notes; (4) Expression - word choice indicates one's point of view, both toward the material and to your reader/listener - genuine meaning & folks understand it - not too formal and not too much slang; (5) Correctness - no points for correct spelling as it's assumed! Make a serious single error & you lose credibility.
A newly minted Democrat or Republican Member of Congress is expected/required to: (a) Join a Party Caucus; (b) Become co-opted to get appointed to a committee/s; (c) Spend time daily on party phone banks calling party donors - not one's own constituents, but party hacks who have money; (d) pay back the money spent getting one elected - money being Party "gear-grease"; (e) memorize the party lines & partisanship-talking points; (f) participate in Party-Office perks once you have a vote in the "People's House, i.e., banquets, Lobbyist Soirees, special occasions, formals, etc. You have all seen these GALA photo ops. The Media thrives on showing its paparazzi photos. WHAT WILL I DO IN WASHINGTON, D.C.? The Colorado Center Party DOES NOT require me to be in a Party Caucus. What will I do instead? I will become a member of the little known "PROBLEM-SOLVING CAUCUS which is comprised of 58 members - 29 Democrats & 29 Republicans. Bipartisan discussions are said to take place to find middle, common ground that everyone tries to share. The Colorado Center Party is standing in the middle, working logically to find MODERATION, a middle position. These are the positions needed to best influence benefits and optimal outcomes for Coloradans & America . . . not baseball bats at ten paces. Not being on Committees leaves me at liberty to spend my time attending any Committee that I might choose - sitting in Visitors' galleries, taking notes. It's what I always do - research, constant note-taking. I will write it down. I remember it. A Master Negotiator is going to need facts, figures and stated opinions, even if they may use "terminal language" which does not readily invite any comeback. My aim is to be thee "Current Events: Legislator-Scholar, listening, watching colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives. I may even attend Senate Committee Visitors' Galleries. You will never catch me at Partisan Phone Banks - a waste of time. Always raising money? For what?
Recognized as professional manager, strategic planner, practice appraiser, hospital & physician practice administrator, healthcare-related business developer, strategic planner and operations analyst with top-flight planning, problem-solving and decision-making skills across system boundaries within the healthcare industry.
Healthcare niche-uniqueness in experienced ability to understand management plus produce market assessments with utilization/financial models–aligning construction budgeting & hospital operations. Knows financial development-construction projects–inception to completion–up-front market assessment, hospital service line models/utilization/size inclusive of physician recruitment, writing business plans, budgeting, deal-structuring, financing, smart-hospital spatial design plus optimal adjacencies, vision to start-up. ‘Knowhow’ includes International experience.
I am about Strategic Planning, establishing right choices, organizational goals, objectives, tasks & assignments all topped off being well-grounded in finance. Core responsibilities relate that I will not drown in Party Formulas, marching lockstep to Partisan Politics. The Colorado Center Party is about freedom for Independent Thinking. More than ever, we need "Man-in-the-Middle" Wisdom - striking a logical balance. This is the responsibility that will be delegated to me with an accountability back to those who I represent, those who delegated me as their representative. In this number I am counting the Independent-Unaffiliated Registered Voters along with both Moderate Democrats and Moderate Republicans. Unlike so much money spent on mailings and TV ads, both pro & con with regards to adversaries, my responsibility is to: (a) encourage sensible behavior in the thought processes that go into drafting & understanding legislative impulses, NOT making people afraid of danger; (b) not losing sight of the overall context of Unaffiliated voters demoralized by 2 major bickering Parties; (c) Openly & honestly listening to those who think & feel differently to see into their motivations & frame of reference; (c) Not allowing for only one theory-only one form of interpretation or analysis, but derive sidebar ideas that might also add pieces to a puzzle; (d) Make the conscious effort not to "personalize" someone with an opposing viewpoint, unless there is truly an "ethical-moral value" that might be at stake, e.g., every classroom in America deserves to have it own "Drag Queen" reading stories (Yikes!); (e) Not having the opinion that the only way out of a crisis is through a tight hierarchical individual/organization that has not sought other points of view. Elected officials learn, develop with a willingness to accommodate needed change if we can all find common ground more confidently through an issue, crisis or an audit of outmoded, bureaucratic processes.
He was a Likable Problem-Solver. He could remember punchlines to long-ago jokes. He could walk in the woods and understand what those with atavistic clairvoyance once had. He was fortunate to have had authentic MENTORS in medicine, healthcare management, things legal, and in how to write business plans with financial feasibilities. He loved western U.S. high plains history and historic places as well as seeing foreign places from the Gulf States through UK and Scandinavia.
Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. 2nd Grade.
My first job took place with the Midtown Hospital Association where after 2 years as a Research Associate, I became its Executive Director with a Board of 7 Hospital Administrators. We established 17 shared/joint venture service programs reducing hospital overhead costs for several support services, i.e., Print Shop, Credit Union, telephone & typewriter repair, Biomedical Equipment, Purchasing, Dispatch-Delivery service, on-call nursing pool, home health, etc. Remained in this job 5 years until I was recruited as an Associate Hospital Administrator at Saint Luke's Hospital (which we merged with Presbyterian Medical Center).
Carry the Wind (Terry Johnston). The character "Scratch" I have been told by my best friend, is much like me.
Virgil Flowers from John Sandford's books.
My Way (Sinatra). Unchained Melody (Righteous Brothers).
Finding a truly honest Hospital Administrator.
Sven and Oley meet a Finlander as they drag a deer the wrong way out of the woods. (Minnesota heritage).
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2022 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on September 26, 2022
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