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Alice Marie Slaven-Emond is a nurse practitioner and community health leader running to represent District 54. She is a lifetime volunteer, having worked with the Red Cross, abroad, and in numerous community organizations. Slaven-Emond earned an award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for her work in medicine and intends, if elected, to expand Medicaid and access to health care in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
She also seeks economic recovery for small business owners and families in light of the toll the coronavirus has taken. She has said she will fight to protect the interests of her constituents, including support for technical trades, funding for renewable energy, and protecting agriculture and farmworkers.
Slaven-Emond is the best candidate to represent this region and will prove to be a strong leader at the Capitol.
She is hoping to unseat Republican Matt Soper, who is in his first term. Soper has two law degrees and writes on legal history and comparative constitutional law. His recent legislation has focused on Colorado courts and civil law, and he otherwise votes consistently with Republican agendas. His social media is a mix of name-dropping, personal reflections, and gun touting. He recently noted after being endorsed by the NRA that the Second Amendment is “under attack by Democrats” and that he would “do everything legislatively possible” to protect this “constitutional right.”AliceMarie Slaven-Emond
Alice Marie Slaven-Emond is a nurse practitioner and community health leader running to represent District 54. She is a lifetime volunteer, having worked with the Red Cross, abroad, and in numerous community organizations.
Alice Marie Slaven-Emond is a nurse practitioner and community health leader running to represent District 54. She is a lifetime volunteer, having worked with the Red Cross, abroad, and in numerous community organizations. Slaven-Emond earned an award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for her work in medicine and intends, if elected, to expand Medicaid and access to health care in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
She also seeks economic recovery for small business owners and families in light of the toll the coronavirus has taken. She has said she will fight to protect the interests of her constituents, including support for technical trades, funding for renewable energy, and protecting agriculture and farmworkers.
Slaven-Emond is the best candidate to represent this region and will prove to be a strong leader at the Capitol.
She is hoping to unseat Republican Matt Soper, who is in his first term. Soper has two law degrees and writes on legal history and comparative constitutional law. His recent legislation has focused on Colorado courts and civil law, and he otherwise votes consistently with Republican agendas. His social media is a mix of name-dropping, personal reflections, and gun touting. He recently noted after being endorsed by the NRA that the Second Amendment is “under attack by Democrats” and that he would “do everything legislatively possible” to protect this “constitutional right.”AliceMarie Slaven-Emond
Alice Marie Slaven-Emond is a nurse practitioner and community health leader running to represent District 54. She is a lifetime volunteer, having worked with the Red Cross, abroad, and in numerous community organizations.
Diane Mitsch Bush
Diane Mitsch Bush, a former state representative, is now running for Congress. She is a retired sociology professor and previous Routt County commissioner who has lived in the Western Slope — a part of Colorado’s sprawling 3rd Congressional District — for over 43 years. She previously ran for this seat in 2018, when she came closer to winning than any Democrat had in the three prior elections.
Colleagues from her other tenures have commended Mitsch Bush’s extreme attention to detail, her pragmatism, and her willingness to work with all sides. She has shown an ability to lead calmly through disasters, including the Great Recession, wildfires, floods, drought, and the swine flu epidemic. While in the state legislature, Mitsch Bush was a leading advocate for family agriculture, sustainable water infrastructure, and small rural communities. She sponsored many critically important bills, including ones to protect the environment and hold polluters accountable, lower health care and health insurance costs, and increase funding for rural schools. Over 80% of her bills were co-prime sponsored with rural Republicans.
Mitsch Bush has said her family’s early struggles with financial insecurity taught her the importance of helping others through public service. Her goal is to have an America that provides opportunities for all, not just the wealthy and well-connected. She intends to fight to make health care affordable for everyone, to protect the environment for generations to come, and to bring more good-paying jobs to rural communities.
Mitsch Bush is an experienced lawmaker and local leader who, if elected to Congress, will be ready on day one to get to work on policies that will benefit her district.
Running against her is Republican Lauren Boebert. Boebert is the owner of Shooters Grill in Rifle, Colorado — a restaurant known mainly for the fact that the wait staff openly carry guns on their person. Guns are one of the few things Boebert talks about regularly. She once drove across the state to go to a rally for Beto O’Rourke just to confront him about his gun safety position.
What voters really need to know, however, is that Boebert is a strong proponent of the QAnon conspiracy theory: the wild idea that Donald Trump is waging a secret war against Democrats and movie stars who are running an international child trafficking ring. She has been quoted as saying, “I hope that this is real. … It only means America is getting stronger and better, and people are returning to conservative values and that’s what I’m for.” She later added, “Everything that I have heard of this movement is only motivating and encouraging and bringing people together stronger ... it could be really great for our country.”
Boebert hasn’t explained more of her own positions beyond generic talking points, but it seems clear she is very far from being a progressive choice.