For our veterans to have to wait long periods of time to receive care is not only unacceptable to us, but to elected officials as well.

We should all laugh more at our elected officials - it's good for us and good for them.

We pay our elected officials to represent us. Sitting on the fence may be convenient, but it's not what I call leadership.

It's time for the elected officials to do their job,

This event is a time for elected officials - many of whom are facing a vote on June 5 on the discriminatory Federal Marriage Amendment - to see the faces of their constituents and see in a very real way that we are about family values, too. One of our core family values is simple, basic equality for all of our family members, and we want our legislators to understand what it means. That's what this day is about.

The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.