Joshua Sharf

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BIOGRAPHY

A Coloradoan for over a decade, Mr. Sharf grew up in northern Virginia, graduating high school in 1983 with the International Baccalaureate. He attended the University of Virginia, where he graduated in 1987 with a Bachelors of Science in a dual major of Physics and Mathematics. While at the University, he was elected Treasurer and President of the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society, and was a member of Sigma Pi Sigma, the national Physics Honor Society.

After graduation, Mr. Sharf returned to northern Virginia, where he took up a career in defense and intelligence consulting, working on such projects as satellite systems and missile defense. Eventually, he turned to a career in web development, and in 1997 he turned west, arriving in Denver in March of that year. He attended the University of Denver as a Daniels Scholar and graduated in 2005 with an MBA as well as a Masters of Science in Finance, and has since passed the NYSE Series 7 and the Chartered Financial Analyst Exam, Level I.

Mr. Sharf was selected as a delegate to the 2006 Colorado Republican state assembly. He also served as an election judge in 2004 and 2005. He also ran for the Colorado State House of Representatives as a Republican for House District 6. He currently serves as the 1st Vice Chairman of the Denver County Republican Party, and chairs the Communications and New Technology Committee.

He currently co-hosts Backbone Radio with former State Senator John Andrews on KNUS-710, and has held down a spot on the Denver Post's PoliticsWest.com Gang of Four Blog. This is in addition to his own blogging at View From a Height, and at Brent Bozell's Newsbusters. He is a graduate of the 2006 class of the Leadership Program of the Rockies.

Mr. Sharf holds a Private Pilot's license, and is a talented amateur photographer. He is a founding member of the DAT Minyan, and an active member of Americans Against Terrorism. His parents, sister and brother-in-law, Ellen & Steve, currently live in Atlanta, and he is the proud uncle of Jamie and Daniel (and will brag about them on demand).

COMMENTARIES

Creative Counting in Cash For Clunkers?

By Joshua Sharf | 08/31/09

It won't come as any surprise to readers that I'm not exactly a fan of Cash for Clunkers. All this $3,000,000,000 Chinese borrowing program did was push forward some demand. If car dealers are going to permanently reduce their months of inventory, that's all to the good, but it's hard to see how C4C did anything other than hasten the process a little. (If they're not, then it did even less good.) The environmental effects... read more »

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The Small Business Majority and the Denver Post

By Joshua Sharf | 08/31/09

I know it's accepted by now that the MSM group will label any conservative group, "conservative," any libertarian group, "conservative," and any liberal group, "left-leaning" or "centrist," when they bother to label them at all. But when a new one comes along, it's good to put both that group's leanings, and the MSM's failure to note them, on the record. The Denver Post recently ran a story about... read more »

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Rangel Must Go - And DeGette Should Push

By Joshua Sharf | 08/30/09

In case you've been too busy watching Obamacare implode like the latter stages of a supernova, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel has a little integrity problem. He has a problem reporting his income and assets - and thus his tax liability. He's had to file amended disclosures on a number of occasions, with excuses that would have gotten you or me a trip to the slammer with a detour through bankruptcy court. ... read more »

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To Whom It May Concern

By Joshua Sharf | 08/28/09

Stay out. Just stay out for a while. Now, it looks as though the NRSC isn't getting involved in our Senate primary after all. At least not for now. I spoke with Dick Wadhams yesterday and he said that he hadn't seen any indications that the NRSC was getting ready to jump in. They do usually coordinate this sort of thing with the state party chairman in question, and he hadn't heard anything. He repeated his adamant... read more »

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Civil Society Subsumed

By Joshua Sharf | 08/20/09

A couple of weeks ago, the Mercatus Center noticed that Brad Pitt's non-profit was seeking stimulus money for its mission to help rebuild New Orleans: The Make It Right Foundation (profiled here on ABC’s 20/20) — as well as dozens if not hundreds of other local initiatives and non-profits — have done incredible work in rebuilding the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. But much of this success is due to their independence... read more »

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Europeans Have More Babies...Well, Europe, Anyway

By Joshua Sharf | 08/19/09

Now that Elden has finally finished a room - my office - things should start to move faster. Certainly my Internet connection will move faster. Fast enough to catch this item from the Washington Post, marveling how the birth rates in Europe seem to be on the rebound. The researchers used the relationship between something called HDI, or Human Development Index, and the Total Fertility Rate (TFR). Keep an eye on that latter measure, because it's... read more »

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Senator Carroll Takes Offense

By Joshua Sharf | 07/31/09

This comes along with a de-friending with extreme prejudice. The main effect of which is to keep me from following the thread on her profile, and to check to see if indeed there were any Facebook invitations to the business members of the mutual assurance company to come testify. However, far from being left out, all three parties are already, by the enabling legislation, represented on the committee: (III) THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE... read more »

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Sen. Carroll Responds - Unpersuasively

By Joshua Sharf | 07/30/09

Yesterday, we noted that State Sen. Morgan Carroll had been used her Facebook page to troll for complaints about Pinnacol's claims processing. That prompted the following Facebook exchange between Sen. Carroll and a Colorado resident (forwarded to me by the resident, who wishes to remain anonymous): Resident: Today at 5:17am I am dismayed at your continued attempt to destroy a valuable resource for Colorado. Your current witchhunt... read more »

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Rally, Counter-Rally on Health Care

By Joshua Sharf | 07/29/09

Just a couple of quick shots from last evening's rally and counter-rally at the state capitol on health care. (Sandoval has the pix on the lunch-time AFP rally.) First, the rally. It was organized by the Obama after-campaign and the SEIU, and it showed. There were three signs in abundance: a purple SEIU-inspired sign, sheets that read, "Single Payer," and those blue leftovers from last year's campaign: And... read more »

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Freeze It, Personalize It, Polarize It

By Joshua Sharf | 07/28/09

Thus goes Rule #12 of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. And thus goes Sen. Morgan Carroll, chairman of the Interim Study Committee for issues related to Pinnacol Assurance, the state's largest Worker's Compensation insurer. Just moments ago, Sen. Carroll posted the following on her Facebook page: This legislative session, the Democrats floated the idea of seizing $500 million of Pinnacol's reserve in order to help meet the budget... read more »