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Before going into politics and advocacy, incumbent State Rep. Cathy Kipp worked for 12 years as a database developer. She began volunteering at schools in the Poudre School District and served as a member of the school board for many years including as board president.
Her strong background in education has led her to fight for public schools and increased funding in her first term in the House. Kipp has vowed to strengthen transportation with an eye toward increasing public transportation and multimodal transit options and supports a plan to achieve 100% renewable energy in the state by 2040. On health care, she’s working for all-around price transparency as well as better access to mental health resources. And, of course, her education legwork is strong, having already made legislative strides in special education graduation, reducing exam fees, scholarship initiatives, and paving the way for colleges to waive test-score requirements for 2021 graduates in light of the pandemic.
Kipp is the clear choice for progressive voters in this district.
Challenging her for the seat is Republican Donna Walter. Walter is a natural wellness clinician who has worked with lawmakers and as a citizen’s advocate at the state capitol. While she does assert positions of protecting free speech, privacy, and due process, she has voiced support for other very concerning ideas. For one, her platform has an emphasis on not wearing masks, going so far as to file suit to strike down mask mandates in Fort Collins. But also, she is decidedly against the Affordable Care Act, saying it has raised hospital costs and that there generally should be less regulation of health care. Plus, she believes it’s only special interest groups that benefit from air-quality regulation and that clean energy is actually “dirty to manufacture.” These are not progressive interests, let’s give Kipp another term in the Colorado House.Cathy Kipp
Before going into politics and advocacy, incumbent State Rep. Cathy Kipp worked for 12 years as a database developer. She began volunteering at schools in the Poudre School District and served as a member of the school board for many years including as board president.
Before going into politics and advocacy, incumbent State Rep. Cathy Kipp worked for 12 years as a database developer. She began volunteering at schools in the Poudre School District and served as a member of the school board for many years including as board president.
Her strong background in education has led her to fight for public schools and increased funding in her first term in the House. Kipp has vowed to strengthen transportation with an eye toward increasing public transportation and multimodal transit options and supports a plan to achieve 100% renewable energy in the state by 2040. On health care, she’s working for all-around price transparency as well as better access to mental health resources. And, of course, her education legwork is strong, having already made legislative strides in special education graduation, reducing exam fees, scholarship initiatives, and paving the way for colleges to waive test-score requirements for 2021 graduates in light of the pandemic.
Kipp is the clear choice for progressive voters in this district.
Challenging her for the seat is Republican Donna Walter. Walter is a natural wellness clinician who has worked with lawmakers and as a citizen’s advocate at the state capitol. While she does assert positions of protecting free speech, privacy, and due process, she has voiced support for other very concerning ideas. For one, her platform has an emphasis on not wearing masks, going so far as to file suit to strike down mask mandates in Fort Collins. But also, she is decidedly against the Affordable Care Act, saying it has raised hospital costs and that there generally should be less regulation of health care. Plus, she believes it’s only special interest groups that benefit from air-quality regulation and that clean energy is actually “dirty to manufacture.” These are not progressive interests, let’s give Kipp another term in the Colorado House.Cathy Kipp
Before going into politics and advocacy, incumbent State Rep. Cathy Kipp worked for 12 years as a database developer. She began volunteering at schools in the Poudre School District and served as a member of the school board for many years including as board president.
Joe Neguse
Incumbent U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse is running for reelection in Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District. Neguse, a lawyer and the son of Eritrean refugees, is the first and so far only Black American to serve in Congress for Colorado.
As a vice chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Neguse advocates for bold progressive policies to address the most pressing issues facing our nation, such as Medicare for All and the Green New Deal. His priorities to date in Congress have included lowering prescription drug prices, raising workers’ wages, ensuring greater accountability in government, and protecting public lands, which make up over 50% of his district.
Although he was first elected just two years ago, he has introduced more legislation than any freshman lawmaker in the country and has had more legislation signed into law than any member of Colorado’s congressional delegation. Before Congress, Neguse fought to expand opportunities for families across Colorado in a variety of roles: as a co-founder of New Era Colorado, the state’s largest youth voter registration and mobilization nonprofit; as a six-term member of CU’s Board of Regents; and as leader of the state’s consumer protection agency for two years.
Neguse is a self-described eternal optimist who will continue to provide Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District with enthusiastic, diligent, and bold representation if reelected.
Running against Neguse is Charles Winn, a radiologist and first-time candidate. Winn asserts that he’s running to change a “false narrative” about the Republican Party, but it’s a challenge to see how he will do that with his public statements on Donald Trump and the coronavirus.
When asked to assess the president’s response to the pandemic, Winn dodged the question and instead said it’s “tragic we need to point fingers.” He later tried to clarify that he thought Trump was “a good commanding officer.” Winn also tried to downplay the threat posed by COVID-19, blaming partisanship for the widespread virus and saying Americans “started politicizing [the pandemic].” Winn also claimed we should open the economy back up because “the risk is less than riding in a car.” He made comparisons to the 1968 flu pandemic to try to prove the U.S. can reopen its schools, but he wasn’t on-point about the facts; he said we should “do what we did in 1968: get on with our lives.”
This kind of thinking has helped get us into the health crisis we’re in today and cannot be elected to office.
Progressives are split on Amendment 77, known as the Allow Voters in Central, Black Hawk, and Cripple Creek Cities to Expand Authorized Games and Increase Maximum Bets Initiative. Please read the arguments from both sides below to help you make your decision on this amendment.