Jake Segrest is a candidate who believes that freedom is meaningless if we do not have the opportunity to make a good life for ourselves and our children. He believes that governments from the local to the federal level have a role in providing opportunity, but that role should be limited to providing a stable environment for commerce and to protecting the rights of citizens.

As a successful small business owner, Jake Segrest understands that opportunity cannot be legislated, it must be created. We all want a quality life for ourselves and our loved ones. We all want the security of knowing that we will be able to bring home a paycheck. We all want affordable health care. Unfortunately, governments cannot provide these things, but they can allow individuals the opportunity to use their innovation and hard work to provide for themselves.

Any veteran, including Jake Segrest, truly understands how diverse the American public is because they have had the unique opportunity of serving with people from across this Nation. The spectrum of American’s ideas and beliefs are as broad as the Nation itself, meaning that compromise with each other is a part of life. Unfortunately, we have compromised the security of our Nation by allowing our Nation to remain dependant on other countries for energy. As a candidate, Jake is committed to finding innovative ways to implement new and tried and true technology, in order to reduce our Nation’s dependency on foreign energy and to increase our national security.

Although Jake Segrest stays busy running his business he understands that farming and ranching throughout the Third District has been, and should remain, an important part of life in Colorado. Jake Segrest comes from a farming community and raises a modest amount of cattle himself. He understands the issues that face farmers and ranchers and will work to insure that their needs will be met in the future.

The opportunities for Americans to make better lives for themselves are decreasing. But Jake Segrest believes that he can do his part to change this, with the votes of Coloradans in the Third District. Together we can work to insure that we have freedom, with opportunity.