Bob Beauprez
Bob Beauprez is a former dairy farmer, community banker and Member of Congress who has spent his entire life working to leave his native state of Colorado a little better than he found it. Currently he maintains a buffalo breeding ranch in the Colorado Mountains and remains very politically active.
Bob Beauprez was born and raised on a third generation family farm in Lafayette, Colorado. Bob’s grandfather emigrated from Belgium in 1907 and founded a general livestock farm specializing in draft horses. Bob’s father eventually took over the farm and developed a nationally renowned Hereford beef cattle breeding herd and transitioned to dairy cattle in the 1950′s. The daily regime of chores, field work and milkings taught Bob a disciplined work ethic that has served him well throughout his life.
After graduating from the University of Colorado in 1970, Bob went into partnership with his parents and brother, Mike, in the family farming operation. Bob managed the dairy herd, eventually marketing their cattle throughout the United States and placing their cattle on every continent except Australia. During that time, Bob pioneered the use of embryo transplant technology to increase the quality and marketability of the family herd. He also served eight years on the National Holstein Association Board of Directors including five years as Chairman of the Genetic Advancement Committee. Bob became an industry spokesperson and international judge of Holstein cattle.
The dairy herd was dispersed in 1990 and Bob managed the development of the real estate for his family, eventually becoming part of a fifteen-hundred unit residential golf course community. At the same time, Bob and his wife Claudia purchased controlling interest in a small community bank. As President, CEO and Chairman, Bob expanded the bank from one to thirteen locations and grew its assets from $4 million to more than $400 million in twelve years. Bob served as President of the Colorado Independent Bankers Association and was on the Board of the Independent Bankers of America.
While running the bank Bob was politically active as the chairman of the Boulder County Republican Party (1997-99), and later as Colorado State GOP Chairman (1999-2002). Bob retired from the bank to run for the new 7th Congressional District in 2002, winning the nation’s closest congressional election that year by 121 votes. In 2004 he was re-elected by over 30,000 votes. While in Congress Bob served on Ways and Means, Transportation, Veterans Affairs and Small Business Committees. He was also Vice-Chairman of the Highways and Infrastructure Subcommittee and a member of the Republican Leadership Whip Team. In 2006 Bob was the Republican nominee for Governor in Colorado.
In 2007 Bob founded a public policy e-magazine, A Line of Sight. As editor-in-chief, Bob has built a national distribution and more than 100 contributing authors to date for the e-mag he describes as "food for the conservative soul." His work has been featured in National Review, The Washington Times, Townhall.com, The Denver Post, and numerous other publications. Bob’s political commentary is regularly sought after by television networks, major newspapers, and radio stations throughout the U.S. as well as internationally. In 2009, Bob published his first book, A Return to Values: a Conservative looks at his Party that has been applauded for his bold "Agenda for America," a strategic plan to reclaim the nation’s greatness.
Bob married his high school sweetheart Claudia in 1970. They have three sons and one daughter as well as four grandchildren. Bob and Claudia returned to their agricultural roots in 2007 by purchasing a 1300 acre ranch in the Colorado Mountains near the Wyoming border at 8500 ft. just below the Continental Divide. There they maintain a 300 head buffalo breeding herd in partnership with their son Jim.
Latest Policy Articles
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
We're living in a time when freedom is again being assaulted. Not just by foreign threats, but by an increasingly tyrannical central government.
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
There's a word for taking something that someone else has earned – stealing….But, how different is it to deny someone the opportunity to earn what they otherwise might; to destroy or limit their chance to succeed? That is the plight of an entire generation of young Americans – and, it is just as wrong.
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
Biden shouldn't opine about economics or shotguns. And, just because Chris Matthews has a "thrill go up his leg" at the mere thought of Obama doesn't mean all is well. While the Obamaphiles were busy praising the President for leading America back to economic Milk-and-Honey, a vastly different sentiment was being heard in the heartland.
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
Americans historically have been the can-do people. Even in the darkest of times, Americans manage to see their glass as more than half full... But something is happening in America. Something unusual, foreign to whom we are as a people. Pessimism is creeping in; a sense of doubt.
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
A recently published report by Egypt's Rose El-Youssef magazine claims that six American Islamist activists that are connected to the Obama Administration as Muslim Brotherhood (MB) operatives who enjoy strong influence over U.S. policy.
By Bob Beauprez and Chris Jaarda
As the nation nears the so-called fiscal cliff, Republicans in Congress must be wary of the solutions being put forward for a “grand bargain” by President Obama and Democrats in Congress. Unsurprisingly, the President and the Congressional Democrats are using tempting but dishonest rhetoric – calling for "fairness," a “balanced approach,” and a “return to Clinton Era tax rates" to "protect the middle class."
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
Taking a page from President Kennedy's 1961 pledge to put a man on the moon before the end of the decade, Romney vows to achieve North American energy independence by 2020. The good news is that both the resources and the technology to safely harvest those resources currently exist to make the goal of energy independence an American reality in the same way our nation rose to President Kennedy's challenge
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
Whether the family budget is drained from government taxes, fees, penalties or failed policies doesn't make a lot of difference. Government under Barack Obama keeps costing families more and there is a whole lot less than there used to be to take care of necessities.
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
Joe Biden says Romney and Ryan's economic plan would "put y'all back in chains." Team Obama repeatedly calls Ryan's budget and Romney's vision "radical" and "extreme." But, is it?
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
Obama knows that his economic record is abysmal, and that Romney's private sector bona fides are outstanding. Thus, the attempt to tarnish the star.
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
The President's disdain for the private sector evolved not from personal experience – he never had any - but, by his assimilation of the ideology of his estranged father, his often absent mother, his Kenyan relatives, and his America-hating minister Jeremiah Wright. This becomes obvious in his books. There is no mention of Friedrich Hayek or Milton Friedman.
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
In 2008, young people voted for the candidate most like them; he liked to have a good time, didn't have much in the way of experience, but talked a really good game. He seemed more like a cool older brother than their grandfather.
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
The President wants us to believe that by raising taxes he can both grow the economy and slash the deficit. Whatever it was that Obama learned in Community Organizing 101, it apparently had nothing to do with basic economics.
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
We should celebrate that our economy is finally creating jobs, but also realize that due to this President's policies, we're still 10.4 million jobs short.
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
It isn't the first time on Capitol Hill that a paid hack starts singing a different tune once the money dries up, but this might be one for the record books given the magnitude of the case.
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
As a candidate for President, Obama pledged that good science would guide policy in his Administration, but his actions belie his words. He says he's for jobs and for economic recovery, yet he dithers on approval of the Keystone Pipeline.
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
The president, bending the laws of economics to his will, recently stated, "The math is the math. You can't lower (tax) rates and raise revenues." Is he right? Take a look at the success of Presidents Harding, Kennedy, Reagan and George W. Bush.
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
The collapse of the sub-prime mortgage loan market precipitated the current economic recession. Yet three years and $170 billion in taxpayer funded bailouts later, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, remain virtually unchanged except that the giant is even bigger and more costly to maintain.
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
Iran and its proxy Hezbollah have established narco-terrorist networks in Venezuela and throughout Latin America. Hezbollah operatives regularly enter the U.S. illegally, with active cells/supporters in at least 15 major cities within the United States. The radical Islamic Jihadist threat is no longer a Middle East problem. It is at our doorstep - and inside our borders.
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
In Part I of this series, Editor-in-Chief Bob Beauprez outlined the threat of a missile attack spawned by an alliance between Venezuela and Iran. In this month's installment, he looks more closely at the impact of such a missile attack, especially if the goal is to generate an electro-magnetic pulse that could wipe out our way of life as we know it.
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
Some say we shouldn't care if Iran has a nuclear weapon. Tehran's reach may be further than you think.
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
Obama got in the car business, the health care business, the energy business, and he's got the government holding most of the cards in banking, too. That's the change; the hope is that he gets fired by the voters in 2012.
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
Ronald Reagan reminded us that you get more of what gets incentivized, and less of what is penalized, and his economic policies proved it. So did the Kennedy and Bush tax cuts. But, Obama and the Democrats seem obsessed with defying history, as well as common-sense, by pillorying oil and gas with more taxes, regulations, and punishing rhetoric.
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
This is Paul Ryan's moment on behalf of those of us who believe in the American Dream. It defines the dramatically different visions for America held by today's GOP and the liberals, much like Ronald Reagan defined that difference in 1981.
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
If you are handed the keys to an economy already weak in the knees, why would you give it a big punch in the gut with an anti-job, anti-growth, anti-American energy policy? Look at the evidence.
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
The media has compared President Obama to President Reagan. Editor in Chief Bob Beauprez looks at this puzzling comparison and finds more contrast than comparison.
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
From his Hawaii vacation site, Barack Obama said his 2011 resolution was to "make sure our economy is growing, creating jobs and strengthening our middle class." If that's true, then he needs to make an immediate about-face with his domestic energy policy that is killing thousands of jobs and driving energy prices through the roof.
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
Historians will long point to the 2010 election as one of America's historic political watershed moments. The GOP captured about 65 House seats (some are yet to be called), reclaiming the majority control, and picked up six crucial Senate seats, as well. The Democrats' advantage of two governorships (26-24) evaporated on election night giving Republicans a dominating 29-19-1 majority of Governor Mansions leading into redistricting battles and the 2012 Presidential election. Nearly 700 state legislative seats previously held by Democrats flipped to Republican candidates, and 19 separate state legislative chambers shifted from Democrat majorities to GOP control.
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
Merle Haggard had a big country western hit with the song “Looking for to a Place to Fall Apart.” That might be the new theme song for Democrats during the home stretch of the 2010 elections.
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
In many ways, America is like a giant public company. It produces roughly a quarter of the world’s total economic output, and rewards its 300 million shareholders with a standard of living standard that is the envy of the planet. Large companies require skillful leaders, and the shareholders have high performance expectations of their executives. Leadership changes happen because of scheduled retirement, or when the shareholders become upset with the company’s performance. In 2008, America had a retiring President, but the shareholders of America had also grown weary of a prolonged war, an economy sliding backwards, and politicians who spent too much and listened too little. Of the applicants for the job of President, America decided on the relatively untested, fresh new face that promised “hope and change” – exactly what the shareholders in America thought they wanted.
By Bob Beauprez, Editor-in-Chief
Every generation of Americans has been able to positively affirm to the next that they had done what was required of them to protect and defend freedom. What a tragedy it would be if this was the first generation unable to make that affirmation.
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