President Obama in Grand Junction, CO

Air Force One-Mt. Garfield in the background.

President Obama greeting local officials

On August 16, The President visited Grand Junction.  It was an amazing day for our community.  He was here last summer during the campaing.  A Presidential visit is a pretty exciting thing and not something that happens very often, particularly in the western side of Colorado.  Grand Junction is very conservative yet the response to his visit  was  positive and respectful.  He was well received as a Candidate but with all the arguments going on over the health care plan, I was afraid that things might be less amicable this time. 

I was so impressed by the job done by all of our Law Enforcement Agencies.   They did a tremendous job assisting The Secret Service to keep the President  safe and to see that everything would go according to schedule.  Jim and I work closely with several  of those agencies and on a daily basis the many Deputies from the Sherrif”s Office ensure my safety in the Courtroom.  They are true professionals.  My good friend Lisa (Deputy)  had an official picture taken with the President.  Pretty exciting.

The people of Grand Junction represented our city well and were respectful of each others opinions.  We did not experience the crazy and threatening antics that have taken place in other cities.  Each side expresed their views civily. 

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