HEADLINES

CACI Completes Four Days Interviewing 49 New Legislative Candidate; Three More Interviews Scheduled for Tuesday

CB-PAC Update

CACI Members Urged to Contribute $50 to CACI’s Small-Donor Committee

2010 Legislative Session Report Features CACI Members’ Impact at the State Capitol

CACI Recognizes Longtime Members

Two CACI Members Honored at the Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” Awards

CACI Member Colorado Container Selected as Winner of NFIB’s Colorado “Small Business Champion of the Year”

Dan Pilcher

CACI Senior Vice President

& Chief Operating Officer

E-Mail: dpilcher@COchamber.com

Phone: 303.866.9600

www.COchamber.com

Friday, July 2, 2010

CACI Completes Four Days Interviewing 49 New Legislative Candidate; Three More Interviews Scheduled for Tuesday

On four days over the past two weeks, the CACI lobbying team and a large number of CACI members have conducted interviews with 49 new legislative candidates.  On this coming Tuesday, July 6^th, three more candidates are scheduled for interviews:

·         9:00 a.m.          Luke Korkowski (R), HD-61
·         9:30 a.m.          John Odom (R), SD-20
·         10:00 a.m.        Jennifer Coken (D), HD-4

 

Based on discussions of the candidates with those CACI members, who are participating in the interviews because they have contributed to CACI’s political action committee, the CACI lobbying team will develop a list of recommended candidates for the CACI Executive Committee and CACI Board of Directors for CACI’s endorsement and financial support from the Colorado Business Political Action Committee (CB-PAC).

CACI members can participate in the interviews next Tuesday by contributing $500 to CB-PAC.  Individuals, companies and PACs can contribute up to $500 during the two-year, 2009-2010 election cycle to a political action committee such as CB-PAC.  CACI members who wish to contribute to CB-PAC should contact Denise Reeves, CACI Vice President of Events and Programs, at 303.866.9622 or via e-mail at dreeves@COchamber.com 

Here is the list of candidates interviewed this past Monday and Tuesday:

Here is the list of candidates interviewed the week before:

To locate the legislative districts, click on:

http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/CGA-LegislativeCouncil/CLC/1200536136267

CACI is working hard this summer and fall to create a pro-business legislature next year with the endorsement and financial support of pro-business legislative candidates, both incumbents and new, who will listen to employers’ concerns.

CB-PAC Update

In addition to the 33 companies--and one individual--listed in the last two issues of Capitol Report that have given to the Colorado Business Political Action Committee (CB-PAC), the following have also recently contributed:

·         Genentech, Inc.

·         The Howes Group

CACI thanks the contributors to CB-PAC for their support, which is critical to CACI’s financial support of pro-business legislative candidates whom it will endorse this summer for election in November.

CACI Members Urged to Contribute $50 to CACI’s Small-Donor Committee

Under Colorado’s campaign finance laws, an individual can contribute $50 per calendar year to a small-donor committee.  CACI’s small-donor committee contribution can be an important factor in the financial support of pro-business legislative candidates in key, competitive races.  During the 2008 election campaign, the CACI Prosperity Fund supported six legislative candidates in tightly contested races.

Any individual can contribute to CACI’s small-donor committee.  Please mail personal checks for $50 made out to The Colorado Prosperity Fund to the CACI Office to the attention of Dan Pilcher.

2010 Legislative Session Report Features CACI Members’ Impact at the State Capitol

In addition to the detailed summary of CACI legislative positions and impact that was published immediately following the session, CACI has just published a report highlighting the impact made by CACI members on key legislation.  Please watch for this in your mail view it at on the CACI Web site:

www.COchamber.com

You may download the file, print it out and e-mail it to others.  The active involvement and support of CACI members through the CACI policy councils and through communications to legislators, as well as testimony before committees, is critical to CACI’s lobbying successes.  We thank you for your dedication to CACI and your support of our mission.

CACI Recognizes Longtime Members

CACI has become recognized and respected as The Voice of Business in Colorado because of years of commitment and support from its members.  Because of this dedication, CACI capitalizes on its established power and influence t the Colorado State Capitol to shape public policies that support the Colorado economy.  CACI thanks these long-standing members whose memberships renewed in June:

·         54 years--Boulder Chamber of Commerce

·         30 years--Tri-State Generation and Transmission

·         25 years--The Chamber Serving the Broomfield Area

·         24 years--The Western Sugar Cooperative

·         23 years--Anschutz Corporation and Holy Cross Energy

·         20 years--CPS Distributors, Inc.; Boeing Company; Colorado Legislative Services, LLC

·         19 years--State Farm Insurance

·         15 years--Hunt, Spillman & Associates, PC; National Western Stock Show; Cook Chevrolet Olds, Inc.,; Elward Construction

·         14 years--Wind River Environmental Group

·         7 years--Greenberg Traurig, LLP; Sentry Fire & Safety, Inc.

·         6 years--Colorado State Bank and Trust, Intrado

·         5 years--PCL Construction Enterprises

Two CACI Members Honored at the Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” Awards

Ernst & Young honored six local businesspeople as winners of the 24^th Annual Rocky Mountain Entrepreneur of the Year awards at a June 24th event. Two of those winners are members of CACI:

Jack McClurg, HealthTrans (Health-Care Category)

Jack McClurg is a founding member of HealthTrans, LLC, and serves as the Chief Executive Officer. HealthTrans is a health-care services administrator that provides tools and services for employers and health plans to more efficiently manage pharmacy and medical benefits programs. HealthTrans also supports the community as by providing complimentary flu-shot vaccinations, donating to food banks, and giving free health care to under-privileged families. By making customers a priority, Jack and his team have revolutionized the pharmacy-benefit management industry.  For more on HealthTrans, click on:

https://www.healthtrans.com/Pages/Welcome.aspx

Kevin Reddy, Noodles & Company (Hospitality Category)

Kevin is CEO and Chairman of the Board for Noodles & Company, a classic causal restaurant success story.  Since joining Noodles and Company in 2005, Kevin has helped propel the Broomfield-based, fast-causal chain to one of nation’s fastest-growing restaurant concepts. Kevin’s “play to win” philosophy is firmly entrenched in the Noodles & Company corporate culture. Since he believes success is achievable regardless of the economic climate, it should be no surprise that Noodles and Company was one of the very few retail or restaurant chains to experience positive same-store sales growth in 2009.  For more on Noodles and Company, click on:

http://www.noodles.com/

On the behalf of the CACI family, congratulations Jack and Kevin! Good luck in Palm Springs, Calif., at the National Entrepreneur of the Year awards in November..  For more on the Entrepreneur of the Year awards, click on:

http://www.ey.com/US/en/Newsroom/News-releases/Ernst-and-Young-Entrepreneur-Of-The-Year-2010-award-winners-in-Rocky-Mountain-Region-announced

CACI Member Colorado Container Selected as Winner of NFIB’s Colorado “Small Business Champion of the Year”

Jim Noon, owner of Colorado Container Corporation, for the second time has been named the “Small Business Champion of the Year,” according to the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB).  Noon won the award in 2005.  The NFIB award cognizes a small-business owner in each state who advocates public policies benefiting the small-business sector.  A CACI member, Colorado Container also has been a regular contributor to CACI’s political action committee.  For more on the NFIB award, click on:

http://www.nfib.com/tabid/598/Default.aspx?cmsid=51908

For more on Colorado Container, click on:

http://www.coloradocontainer.com/