CO Republican Business Coalition
Monthly Luncheon
Asst. Minority Leader Rep. David Balmer

"Republican Solutions to Small Business Issues"

Friday, January 18, 2008
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Brooklyn's Restaurant - Auraria Parkway - across from Pepsi Center map Parking: $1 in Lot A (go around the round-about and take the first right into Lot A. Tell the attendant you're going to Brooklyn's.

Members: $17; non-members: $20; elected officials and students: $15 Luncheon menu choices.

Representative David Balmer

Representative Balmer was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2004 and re-elected to a second term in 2006. His House Republican colleagues elected him to serve as Assistant House Minority Leader. Representative Balmer serves on the House Business Affairs and Legislative Council Committees.

In the private sector, Rep. Balmer is a consultant specializing in brown field redevelopment. From 1994-2007, he worked as a senior manager with Cherokee Investment Partners. Cherokee specializes in the acquisition and remediation of environmentally contaminated properties. Since 1990, Cherokee has purchased over 320 sites across North America and Europe including the former Gates Rubber manufacturing plant at I-25 and Broadway in Denver.

Additionally, Rep. Balmer is a Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve and has served in deployments to Afghanistan and Bosnia. Since moving to Colorado in 1996, he has been active in various non-profit charities. From 1998 to 2006, Mr. Balmer served on the Board of Trustees of Warren Village, a non-profit community in central Denver, which houses 93 previously homeless single mothers. He also tutored an elementary school boy for 2 years through the D.U. Bridge Project. Rep. Balmer served for 3 years on the Accountability Committee for Fox Hollow Elementary School, part of the Cherry Creek School System. In 1999, he was honored with the Denver Business Journal's Forty Under 40 award, which recognizes Denver's top 40 young business leaders. In 2007, Rep. Balmer joined the Board of the Colorado Council on Economic Education.

Rep. Balmer earned a JD from Wake Forest Law School and a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mr. Balmer is a father of a 14-year-old daughter, Laura. He and his wife Karen live in Centennial.

CRBC annual dues: $50 Active members; $10 Elected Officials; $5 full-time students. Members receive the CRBC Legislative Matrix, a timely review of bills affecting small business, plus discounted prices for luncheons, and complimentary admission to invitation-only events and seminars. www.smallbusinessrepublicans.com