Name: Aaron J. Hobbs
Seat you are seeking: Boulder County Commissioner, District 2
Age: 32
Family: Single
Occupation: VP of GR Construction
Hometown: Longmont, CO
Your Web site: www.aaronhobbs.com
Favorite local place to hang out: Since I am a doctoral student, right now it is my home!...
What do you like most about living here?: Snow, the mountains, the people, lack of hurricanes...
Interests & hobbies: Playing guitar, reading fantasy and thriller fiction, and absorbing knowledge
Favorite TV show: Right now it is a tossup between House and Bones on Fox, but I will always remain a Buffy fan!
Favorite Web site: Tie between MySpace and ALL the news sites I visit, although technically I spend a large amount of my time in the online library for my school.
People who inspired you (and how): This list is huge, way too big for the space allowed:
My mother, who passed away after fighting a long illness, but refused to just give up and let it takeover her life. Many of my teachers and parents of my friends who encouraged me to try to look forward and remain positive while my mother was facing her difficulties and then after I went to live with an adopted family, especially when things got real rough. My shipmates in the US Navy who understood why I was there and called me brother, regardless of where we came from or where we were going.
How you have contributed to the community: Many Boulder county residents and visitors shop in buildings my company helped build. I also volunteered for special Olympics for a couple of summer games.
What are the biggest issues facing your constituency now: As with America and the entire world, we are seeing the failing economies worsen our woes and heighten our fears. The leaders of the current administration in Boulder County are seemingly ignorant of the fear that the people they represent are feeling. The current commissioners decide to pass laws and regulations that create an aversion to development within the county, they pass rules that make businesses look elsewhere to take up residence, and they fail to encourage the tourism that our many little shops and restaurants rely upon. Instead of relaxing business rules and planning requirements to encourage businesses to come here, they increase the strangling and force those businesses to seek opportunity elsewhere and as those companies stay away from our community so do the residents that they would bring under their employ, the tax dollars they could generate, and the increase in profitability for almost all of the county's businesses.