Cole Wist

Cole Wist is an attorney and former state representative from Arapahoe County, Colorado. A Republican, Wist represented Colorado House of Representatives District 37 and served as Assistant Minority Leader in the House.

Cole Wist
Wist in 2018.
Member of the Colorado House of Representatives
from the 37th district
In office
January 12, 2016 – January 4, 2019
Preceded byJack Tate
Succeeded byTom Sullivan
Personal details
Born (1962-12-24) 24 December 1962
Fort Worth, Texas
NationalityAmerican
Political partyRepublican
Spouse(s)Susan
ChildrenConnor
Abby
Halle
ResidenceArapahoe County, Colorado
Alma materJ.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1988
B.A., University of Denver, 1985
ProfessionAttorney
Websitecolewist.com

He was originally appointed to the office after his predecessor, Jack Tate, resigned to fill a vacant State Senate seat.[1] Wist then ran for the office in the November, 2016 general election and won, beating his Democratic challenger with 54.65% of the vote.[2] Wist ran for reelection in 2018 but lost to Democrat Tom Sullivan.[3]

Early life and family

Wist was born in Fort Worth, Texas,[4] but he was raised in Paonia, Colorado. He and his wife Susan have three daughters.[5]

Education

Wist earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Denver in 1985. He also holds a J.D. Degree from Georgetown University Law Center. He works as an attorney at Ogletree, Deakins.[6]

gollark: Maybe you could make a good scifi thing a hundred years in the future or something about faster computers/better optimization algorithms/distributed system designs/something making central planning more tractable. Although in the future supply chains will probably be even more complex. But right now, it is NOT practical.
gollark: In any case, if you have a planned system and some new need comes up... what do you do, spend weeks updating the models and rerunning them? That is not really quick enough.
gollark: If you want to factor in each individual location's needs in some giant model, you'll run into issues like:- people lying- it would be horrifically complex
gollark: Information flow: imagine some farmer, due to some detail of their climate/environment, needs extra wood or something. But the central planning models just say "each farmer needs 100 units of wood for farming 10 units of pig"; what are they meant to do?
gollark: The incentives problems: central planners aren't really as affected by how well they do their jobs as, say, someone managing a firm, and you probably lack a way to motivate people "on the ground" as it were.

References
  1. Bunch, Joey. Cole Wist chosen to fill District 37 seat in the Colorado House. The Denver Post Blogs: The Spot for Politics & Policy, January 10, 2016. Viewed: 2017-01-13.
  2. Ballotpedia. Cole Wist. Viewed: 2017-01-13.
  3. "Colorado election results: November 6, 2018 election". Colorado Secretary of State. 2018-12-06. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  4. Vote Smart. Cole Wist's Biography. Viewed: 2017-01-13.
  5. Wist, Cole. Experience, Passion and Common Sense for Colorado. Viewed: 2017-01-13.
  6. Ogletree, Deakins. People: Cole A. Wist Archived 2017-01-16 at the Wayback Machine.



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