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Colorado governor Polis’ days in La Jolla canyons
Why Kamala might not run for Calif. governor
![“[Kennedy] helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and will help make America healthy again by shaking up HHS and FDA,” Jared Polis wrote in a November 14 post on his X account.](https://media.sandiegoreader.com/img/photos/2024/11/26/RADAR_Jared_Polis_on_X_t670.jpg?b3f6a5d7692ccc373d56e40cf708e3fa67d9af9d)
“[Kennedy] helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and will help make America healthy again by shaking up HHS and FDA,” Jared Polis wrote in a November 14 post on his X account.
Jared backs Bobby Jr.
Onetime La Jolla denizen Jared Polis, now governor of Colorado, is under fire from some fellow Democrats for praising the nomination by Donald Trump of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the department of Health and Human Services. “[Kennedy] helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and will help make America healthy again by shaking up HHS and FDA,” Polis wrote in a November 14 post on his X account.
Jared Polis learned to love nature in La Jolla.
“I hope he leans into personal choice on vaccines rather than bans (which I think are terrible, just like mandates) but what I’m most optimistic about is taking on big pharma and the corporate ag oligopoly to improve our health. Before you mock him or disagree, I want to share with you some quotes that if he follows through show why I’m excited: ‘In some categories, there are entire departments, like the nutrition department at the FDA that are — that have to go, that are not doing their job, they’re not protecting our kids,’ YES!
“The entire nutrition regime is dominated by big corporate ag rather than human health and they do more harm than good ‘We’ve got to get off of pesticide-intensive agriculture.’ YES! We have tried unsuccessfully to better protect people and pollinators from harmful pesticides here in Colorado and we need all the help we can get to take on big chemical companies and improve human health and the environment! For our pollinators and our people! He will face strong special interest opposition on these, but I look forward to partnering with him to truly make America healthy again and I hope that we can finally make progress on these important issues.”
The head of the Colorado Democratic Party, Shad Murib, fired back: “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been credibly accused of sexual assault and consistently undermines trust in science using his personal beliefs and conspiracy theories as evidence.”
Polis responded to the pushback in a subsequent post: “Science must remain THE cornerstone of our nation’s health policy and the science-backed decision to get vaccinated improves public health and safety. But if as a country we follow the science we would also be far more concerned about the impact of pesticides on public health, ag policy on nutrition, and the lack of access to prescription drugs due to drug high prices. This is why I am for a major shake-up in institutions like the FDA that have been barriers to lowering drug costs and promoting healthy food choices. Lest there by any doubt, I am vaccinated as is my family. I will hold any HHS Secretary to the same high standard of protecting and improving public health.”
An October 1, 2018 Colorado Independent profile describes Polis’s political coming of age in San Diego. “At that time of his life, Jared played almost daily in an urban canyon near his family’s home in the uppercrust San Diego community of La Jolla, and one day some neighbors came by to inform his parents that developers sought to build condominiums in the canyon.”
According to his mother Susan Schutz: “Jared stood up and said, ‘Have you ever been in the canyon? There’s no snakes, there’s no garbage.’ He said, ‘I walk in it and play in it every day after school. It’s a beautiful place to be.’ He spoke for about 10 minutes, and the council later surprised everyone by siding with Jared. The local newspaper quoted the mayor saying it was ‘that young man’s’ speech that made the difference.’”
Polis, a La Jolla Country Day alumnus who went on to Princeton, changed his last name from Schutz to Polis in 2000 during his race for a seat on the Colorado State Board of Education about a year after an alleged 1999 shoving of a staffer emerged. “Polis’ documented assault on his female employee is grossly unacceptable and reveals his true character,” said Republican Colorado GOP Chairman Jeff Hays, as cited in a September 25, 2018 Complete Colorado piece. Colorado House Minority Leader Patrick Neville, a Republican, added, “I hope women take a look at this. I don’t think he should be throwing stones in glass houses.”
Toni vs Kamala?
San Diego-based California state Senate Democrat Toni Atkins, who wants to get elected governor in 2026, replacing termed-out Gavin Newsom, may find herself facing off against defeated presidential candidate Kamala Harris, per a round of post-election speculation. But Harris may not jump into the race, and that could be the least of Atkins’s troubles. “Dan Morain, Ms. Harris’s biographer and author of Kamala’s Way: An American Life, said if Ms Harris were to run for California governor, she would likely win by over 2 million votes,” reports Telegraph.com in a November 20 dispatch.
Can Toni Atkins do to Harris what Trump did to Harris?
“But he added that such a move would be ‘complicated on a personal level’ as she is close friends with Eleni Kounalakis, California’s lieutenant governor who is also expected to run. ‘I would be surprised if [Harris] tried to elbow her friend, Lady Kounalakis, aside. I would be surprised, I would not be shocked.’ Being governor of California is a pretty cool job, a lot of clout, especially in an era when you know Trump is going to be president...[it’s a] perch from which she could make political points, and [run [for president] in 28 or 32].’”
According to the story “A recent poll found nearly half of voters would be very or somewhat likely to support Ms. Harris, 60, if she runs to replace Gavin Newsom in her home state.” Atkins has continued to fatten her gubernatorial campaign fund, pulling $5000 from Cox Communications senior vice president Sam Attisha on October 29, and the same from the United Food & Commercial Workers Union Local 135 PAC the day before.
— Matt Potter
The Reader offers $25 for news tips published in this column. Call our voice mail at 619-235-3000, ext. 440, or sandiegoreader.com/staff/matt-potter/contact/.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Colorado governor Polis’ days in La Jolla canyons
Why Kamala might not run for Calif. governor
Colorado governor Polis’ days in La Jolla canyons
Why Kamala might not run for Calif. governor
“[Kennedy] helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and will help make America healthy again by shaking up HHS and FDA,” Jared Polis wrote in a November 14 post on his X account.
Jared backs Bobby Jr.
Onetime La Jolla denizen Jared Polis, now governor of Colorado, is under fire from some fellow Democrats for praising the nomination by Donald Trump of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the department of Health and Human Services. “[Kennedy] helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and will help make America healthy again by shaking up HHS and FDA,” Polis wrote in a November 14 post on his X account.
Jared Polis learned to love nature in La Jolla.
“I hope he leans into personal choice on vaccines rather than bans (which I think are terrible, just like mandates) but what I’m most optimistic about is taking on big pharma and the corporate ag oligopoly to improve our health. Before you mock him or disagree, I want to share with you some quotes that if he follows through show why I’m excited: ‘In some categories, there are entire departments, like the nutrition department at the FDA that are — that have to go, that are not doing their job, they’re not protecting our kids,’ YES!
“The entire nutrition regime is dominated by big corporate ag rather than human health and they do more harm than good ‘We’ve got to get off of pesticide-intensive agriculture.’ YES! We have tried unsuccessfully to better protect people and pollinators from harmful pesticides here in Colorado and we need all the help we can get to take on big chemical companies and improve human health and the environment! For our pollinators and our people! He will face strong special interest opposition on these, but I look forward to partnering with him to truly make America healthy again and I hope that we can finally make progress on these important issues.”
The head of the Colorado Democratic Party, Shad Murib, fired back: “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been credibly accused of sexual assault and consistently undermines trust in science using his personal beliefs and conspiracy theories as evidence.”
Polis responded to the pushback in a subsequent post: “Science must remain THE cornerstone of our nation’s health policy and the science-backed decision to get vaccinated improves public health and safety. But if as a country we follow the science we would also be far more concerned about the impact of pesticides on public health, ag policy on nutrition, and the lack of access to prescription drugs due to drug high prices. This is why I am for a major shake-up in institutions like the FDA that have been barriers to lowering drug costs and promoting healthy food choices. Lest there by any doubt, I am vaccinated as is my family. I will hold any HHS Secretary to the same high standard of protecting and improving public health.”
An October 1, 2018 Colorado Independent profile describes Polis’s political coming of age in San Diego. “At that time of his life, Jared played almost daily in an urban canyon near his family’s home in the uppercrust San Diego community of La Jolla, and one day some neighbors came by to inform his parents that developers sought to build condominiums in the canyon.”
According to his mother Susan Schutz: “Jared stood up and said, ‘Have you ever been in the canyon? There’s no snakes, there’s no garbage.’ He said, ‘I walk in it and play in it every day after school. It’s a beautiful place to be.’ He spoke for about 10 minutes, and the council later surprised everyone by siding with Jared. The local newspaper quoted the mayor saying it was ‘that young man’s’ speech that made the difference.’”
Polis, a La Jolla Country Day alumnus who went on to Princeton, changed his last name from Schutz to Polis in 2000 during his race for a seat on the Colorado State Board of Education about a year after an alleged 1999 shoving of a staffer emerged. “Polis’ documented assault on his female employee is grossly unacceptable and reveals his true character,” said Republican Colorado GOP Chairman Jeff Hays, as cited in a September 25, 2018 Complete Colorado piece. Colorado House Minority Leader Patrick Neville, a Republican, added, “I hope women take a look at this. I don’t think he should be throwing stones in glass houses.”
Toni vs Kamala?
San Diego-based California state Senate Democrat Toni Atkins, who wants to get elected governor in 2026, replacing termed-out Gavin Newsom, may find herself facing off against defeated presidential candidate Kamala Harris, per a round of post-election speculation. But Harris may not jump into the race, and that could be the least of Atkins’s troubles. “Dan Morain, Ms. Harris’s biographer and author of Kamala’s Way: An American Life, said if Ms Harris were to run for California governor, she would likely win by over 2 million votes,” reports Telegraph.com in a November 20 dispatch.
Can Toni Atkins do to Harris what Trump did to Harris?
“But he added that such a move would be ‘complicated on a personal level’ as she is close friends with Eleni Kounalakis, California’s lieutenant governor who is also expected to run. ‘I would be surprised if [Harris] tried to elbow her friend, Lady Kounalakis, aside. I would be surprised, I would not be shocked.’ Being governor of California is a pretty cool job, a lot of clout, especially in an era when you know Trump is going to be president...[it’s a] perch from which she could make political points, and [run [for president] in 28 or 32].’”
According to the story “A recent poll found nearly half of voters would be very or somewhat likely to support Ms. Harris, 60, if she runs to replace Gavin Newsom in her home state.” Atkins has continued to fatten her gubernatorial campaign fund, pulling $5000 from Cox Communications senior vice president Sam Attisha on October 29, and the same from the United Food & Commercial Workers Union Local 135 PAC the day before.
— Matt Potter
The Reader offers $25 for news tips published in this column. Call our voice mail at 619-235-3000, ext. 440, or sandiegoreader.com/staff/matt-potter/contact/.
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