Dan Brent
RepublicanQ1 What advisory mechanisms will you implement to ensure that evidence and scientific findings play a crucial role in your policymaking process?
“As an elected official, it is vital to take into consideration all advisors including those from a scientific background.”
Q2 Colorado farmers are facing multiple threats, amidst water scarcity and rising prices for fertilizer and other imported materials. As agriculture is our #1 export sector, in what ways do you imagine using your role to support evidence-based advancements to protect and support our farmers and natural resources in the years ahead?
“As a farmer myself, it is very important to be sure farmers have the best information available to them. My policy would be to include common sense to all information available to me”
Q3 America has a growing AI industry, supporting cutting-edge innovation but raising issues of resource use, privacy, and economics. What is the right balance of costs and benefits for new data center construction in Colorado, and how would your policies accomplish that balance?
“It is my understanding that data centers require the equivalent of two Olympic sized swimming pools of water every day. Colorado is a very dry state incapable of sustaining that kind of water use. This being said, I would not consider placing data centers here in Colorado. The very same people screaming about climate change are being very hypocritical when pushing these data centers which would contribute to the very problem they claim will destroy the planet.”
Q4 Colorado has experienced a lingering measles outbreak since March of 2025. What evidence-based policies do you support to improve community and preventive health for your constituents, for infectious diseases and other threats?
“What evidence is there that hasn’t gone down the path of a political agenda? With the gain of function research that has become questionable as to the purpose of population control and biological warfare it is becoming harder and harder for people to trust “the science “ when it comes to the health of the people. The CDC is now reporting vaccine harm and the people can’t retaliate against big Pharmaceutical companies that caused the harm. It will be increasingly difficult for me to adapt any policy that requires the people to harm themselves from questionable science.”
Q5 What are your opinions on the current state of science literacy, and how could K-12 education standards be adapted to form a better public understanding of and relationship building in science?
“When science decided that woke ideology was the determining factor as what true science is and what is not, when science became a political tool over logical research, it has lost its credibility and can no longer be trusted in shaping the minds of the children.”