Bruce Baker

Name: Bruce Baker for Mayor
Address: 14761 Kalamath Ct, Westminster, Colorado
Telephone: +1 303 4082288

Together, we can return the focus of our suburban Westminster city government to supporting our safe, tree-filled, green, family friendly, owner-occupied neighborhoods. From 2014 until the present, City Council approved nearly 4,000 mostly rental, multi-family units while issuing under 1,500 single family detached, owner-occupant permits. This tidal-wave of rental units has had a profoundly negative effect. The increased demands for services has hurt existing neighborhoods and diminished the quality of life for everyone.

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Vision

What does the Mayor and City Council want Westminster to be? It takes Vision to answer that question.

The current Council has no Vision. The last time the City had a stated vision of our Future was several years ago when the Council wanted to be the: "Next Urban Center of the Colorado Front Range". While Council officially dropped that statement, the staff uses all the City's resources to advance that vision.

I want Westminster to be proud of being an uncrowded, safe, green suburb that celebrates single family neighborhoods and cars.

Westminster roads and parks and all of our infrastructure was designed to be a low density, owner-occupied, suburban city. Crowding more people into Westminster only creates problems.

Leadership

Bruce Baker is the best person to lead City Council to a better Future for all Westminster's residents. Westminster's heart and soul is found in our safe, quiet, beautiful, owner-occupied neighborhoods. Our suburbs are the only housing that will ever be affordable. Enduring suburbs are the foundation of community and sustainability.

Westminster's suburbs are where the American Dream came to life. They are the best financial decision most of our residents have made. American suburbs are the most meaningful tool to build a Future where people have political equality and financial independence.

The current council seems oblivious to or ashamed of our suburban neighborhoods. Our current Council (except Ms Ireland) are continuously led by staff to make choices that hurt single-family home ownership.

City Staff is using public money to make private apartment owners richer. Council doesn't seem to have a clue. Look at the New Downtown and train station TOD. The multi-family projects show the aim of the city staff is still to be the Next urban Center of the Colorado Front Range.

Moreover, Public money funneled into private pockets is corrupt. Dishonesty has been "normalized" by pretending it is a sound business practice. It will take Leadership to change.

Honesty

How could Council think spending $3.5 million dollars to build a bar was a good idea?

How does exempting a favored apartment developer from $4.6 million dollars of fees that everyone else must pay, is fair or in any way helps all of Westminster?

How does giving nearly free rent in a city owned building to a very successful, very rich business help all the residents of Westminster?

Borrowing $210 million dollars to build an over-priced, unneeded water plant makes a beautiful, green, tree filled, safe neighborhoods something only rich neighborhoods can afford.

These acts by the current City Council, and many more, are the result of a foolish, lazy and wasteful council that is a rubber stamp for the ideas and dreams of the paid staff.

This foolishness and abuse of public money must stop.

While the errors that past councils have made cannot be undone, we can make better decisions for the Future.

Smart Ideas

Bruce Baker has repeatedly brought smart ideas to City Council (service 2013 to 2017 and 2021 to 2023). While a couple of his ideas were examined and accepted (i.e. - eliminating the dog license requirement, recognizing Thrift must be an important value to Westminster), most were ignored. His ideas were ignored because his colleagues were too timid, too lazy, too insecure and too disrespectful to him to consider the ideas.

Of course it takes a lot to time, research and work to explore new ideas. It takes curiosity to examine the guidance of City Staff and even more confidence and courage to modify or reject those ideas.

For example:

As published in the Westminster Window on October 9, 2014 Bruce said "I see Westminster's envisioned new Downtown as a disaster, a cramped, inconvenient car-hating, passe example of new urbanism....too many vacant shops, too few places to park, and too many unhappy renters...". Ten years later we have a half-built, undesirable, waste of public money on a failed dream that no one assumes responsibility for pushing on Westminster.

On September 12, 2022, Bruce brought to Council ( and the proposal was published August 23, 2022, on the Complete Colorado website - Baker: Let Westminster police provide emergency medical services - Complete Colorado , an innovative idea to to improve policing and change the paradigm of law enforcement. The ideas was never explored.

Westminster needs Council members that have ideas to bring to public discussion. Westminster needs elected officials that will be both authors of ideas and accountable for the success of their ideas. Westminster needs elected officails that will "run" Westminster instead of the timid, lazy, responsibility-ducking officals we currently have.

Who is Bruce Baker?

A person having courage, honesty, tenacity with the vision to lead Westminster

Bruce Baker knows that election to public office is a commitment to public service. Good public service requires hard work by smart, hard-nosed people to protect the public assets. Previous Councils avoided the hard conversations that are the "hammer and anvil" by which good government is forged. Previous councils' fear of conflict and their foolishness was used to swindle the people of Westminster out of millions of dollars.

Baker has been involved for 12 years in the conversation to find ways to better serve the people of Westminster. He has the courage to oppose the errors the City has made: the unneeded water plant; the failed New Downtown; the corrupt financial deals that enrich insiders.