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Glenwood Springs, CO Colorado

I find the land swap between the base of Mountain Sopris and the Sutey Ranch to be very questionable. I am not sure of the basic reason for the swap, however I’m able to shed light upon the Sutey family, who were the original owners of the ranch. In my opinion, the Sutey family displayed the highest, honest morals of any family in this area. They were exceptionally good friends of my father and mother – Steve and Ann Krizmanich of Glenwood Springs.

Mr. and Mrs. Sutey originally came from northern Croatia to escape an extremely hard life dominated by a wealthy privilege class. Frank Sutey Sr. and my grandmother were from the village of Plemenitas. Kathryn Sutey was from Delnice. It was then Austria-Hungary as Yugoslavia did not exist.

Frank constantly displayed sympathy for the working guy. Before homesteading on Castle Creek, the family lived in Crested Butte where Frank worked at hard, back-breaking labor in the mines. Difficulty arose due to his efforts related to the creation of a miner’s union – therefore the family left Castle Creek and Created Butte. They traveled down Schofield Canyon in a wagon which turned over.



Perhaps Leslie Wexner is a good honest man, but he is the same cut as Kenneth Lay or Rupert Murdoch – he has to achieve a tremendous amount of moral development and understanding before he rises to the level of Frank Sutey.

If this land swap is just another land grab, the Sutey family would absolutely not support such a deal -especially if it makes fat cats fatter. I received my moral compass from Mr. Sutey, my father and the good old timers of Crested Butte and Glenwood. Their values were very different from that of many of the newcomers.



The Suteys were good, kind, honest people. I was blessed to have known them. Our country would be much better if there were more people like them. They are true models for a moral society.

Joe Krizmanich

Glenwood Springs

After reading through most of this bill and reviewing the more controversial section several times, I arrived at the following conclusions.

Sec. 122 of H.R. 3200 does not create a government mandated “major medical” insurance plan. The maximum out-of-pocket expense for an individual would be $5,000 and for a family $10,000 (year one) and would increase or decrease depending on the Consumer Price Index. This maximum expense is not a deductible. It is the maximum amount of “cost-sharing” payable be the individual or family in the applicable year. The insurer would pay approximately 70% and the insured approximately 30% of covered medical expenses until the insured had paid their respective maximum. The insurer would then pay 100% of the remaining expenses. Cost-sharing for Preventative or Wellness services would not be allowed.

H.R. 3200 will eliminate non-coverage due to preexisting conditions, eliminate annual or lifetime limits on covered items and services and guarantee issues and renewal of coverage except for non-payment or premiums.

Sec. 123 – Advance Care Planning Consultation of Subtitle C – Miscellaneous Improvements, pages 425 through 443, does not force, encourage or promote euthanasia.

H.R. 3200 as written is not a finished product and the Senate has yet to introduce its version of health care reform. A compromise bill that will require time and perseverance to read. The complete text is available at thomas.loc.gov.

Henry Nordsiek

Glenwood Springs

Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) wrote “Rules for Radicals,” and was a Chicago community organizer greatly influencing Obama. Obama learned very quickly that America’s white middle class was his ticket to the White house. David Axelrod, Obama’s campaign manager quickly stigmatized the white middle class as materialistic, decadent, imperialistic, degenerate, war mongering and corrupt. And that’s where he started to build power for “change” from the white middle class majority. Axelrod postured Obama as the new age unifier who was above liberals and conservatives. He became the “anointed one.” Obama could do no wrong.

At the time it didn’t matter to the voter that Obama was closely associated with such low life’s as Bill Ayers/Bernardine Dohrn (radical Weather Underground), Tony Rezko (convicted real estate scammer and Obama campaign contributor), Reverend Wright (black liberation theologies), and last but not least, racist, Louis Farrakhan (and the Black Muslims).

America chose not to see Obama’s evil associations, America elected a very radical President. Lying appears to be his way of life.

As a former resident of Chicagoland it’s business as usual. But at the national level it just doesn’t work. You can’t believe anything that crosses Obama’s lips. In his first six months unemployment has skyrocketed, tax receipts are down 55%, the stimulus package is a failure, we have the highest deficit in history, Cap/Trade is a scam on the public, he believes in wealth redistribution over economic growth and job creation, he favors Islamic countries over democratic Israel, he funds corrupt ACORN an organization now in charge of census, he’s anti-gun and pro-abortion, he’s taken over banks, the auto industry and now is attempting to control the health care system, he bows to the Saudi King, belittles our country, is against building nuclear plants and drilling and on and on and on.

America has awakened, check out the town hall meetings. 2010 will be here soon. Vote the incumbents out.

At least with President George Bush we felt safe and we knew whose side he was on.

Stan Rachesky

Glenwood Springs

According to the educated elite, including the main stream press, we blue collar citizens in fly over country are too simple minded to understand the 1,118 page health care bill. I submit a simple plan in less than 350 words that I doubt they would understand.

No. 1 – Tort reform! Cap or eliminate malpractice lawsuits. Former presidential candidate John Edwards became a multi-millionaire suing doctors and hospitals.

No. 2 – Allow insurance companies to cross state lines with coverage to create competition and give policyholders the ability to keep their coverage when they change jobs or location. It works for car insurance.

No. 3 – Require all people treated in emergency rooms to have Social Security numbers. The current administration wants to ration health care to people over 75, then I believe it should be limited to citizens unless they have the cash to pay for treatment.

I submit this plan would cut 50-70 percent off medical cost and free up more time for doctors to practice medicine.

Ken Kriz

Glenwood Springs


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