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Adams County Commissioner Eva Henry is running for reelection in District 1. She has served in this role since 2013; before that, Henry served as the mayor pro tem and a city council member for the city of Thornton.
Henry, who grew up and then raised her children in Adams County, understands personally what it can be like for families during hard economic times. She has said she ran for office to give back to the community that gave so much to her when she relied on assistance programs.
In her time in office, Henry has led partnerships that have created hundreds of new affordable housing options and worked to eliminate public-access barriers by consolidating all human services agencies in the Pete Mirelez Human Services Center. In order to bring more good-paying jobs to Adams County, Henry helped secure the relocation of new, large science, technology, engineering, and math employers and aerospace companies to the Colorado Air and Space Port. Additionally, under her leadership, Adams County began offering four-year scholarships to children receiving free and reduced school lunches.Henry is also committed to preserving wildlife and natural resources and expanding open spaces in Adams County and worked to provide $86 million for parks and open-space projects including the creation of Pelican Ponds, a 200-acre park. Henry has a strong track record of being able to work with other local leaders across party lines on issues that are important to her constituents, and if reelected, she will continue to work to make sure Adams County residents have access to the resources they need.
Henry is the recommended candidate in this race.
Challenging her for the seat is Alex “Skinny” Winkler, a longtime Adams County Republican who has run for several different positions. In that time, he has shown progressive voters that he will not represent them well. He has said he doesn’t believe in oil and gas setbacks and has opposed increasing money for education and raises for public school teachers. Winkler has also been connected to violent far-right extremist groups like the Proud Boys, who regularly spout white nationalist ideology. This is not the kind of representation progressive voters want or need.Eva Henry
Adams County Commissioner Eva Henry is running for reelection in District 1. She has served in this role since 2013; before that, Henry served as the mayor pro tem and a city council member for the city of Thornton.
Adams County Commissioner Eva Henry is running for reelection in District 1. She has served in this role since 2013; before that, Henry served as the mayor pro tem and a city council member for the city of Thornton.
Henry, who grew up and then raised her children in Adams County, understands personally what it can be like for families during hard economic times. She has said she ran for office to give back to the community that gave so much to her when she relied on assistance programs.
In her time in office, Henry has led partnerships that have created hundreds of new affordable housing options and worked to eliminate public-access barriers by consolidating all human services agencies in the Pete Mirelez Human Services Center. In order to bring more good-paying jobs to Adams County, Henry helped secure the relocation of new, large science, technology, engineering, and math employers and aerospace companies to the Colorado Air and Space Port. Additionally, under her leadership, Adams County began offering four-year scholarships to children receiving free and reduced school lunches.Henry is also committed to preserving wildlife and natural resources and expanding open spaces in Adams County and worked to provide $86 million for parks and open-space projects including the creation of Pelican Ponds, a 200-acre park. Henry has a strong track record of being able to work with other local leaders across party lines on issues that are important to her constituents, and if reelected, she will continue to work to make sure Adams County residents have access to the resources they need.
Henry is the recommended candidate in this race.
Challenging her for the seat is Alex “Skinny” Winkler, a longtime Adams County Republican who has run for several different positions. In that time, he has shown progressive voters that he will not represent them well. He has said he doesn’t believe in oil and gas setbacks and has opposed increasing money for education and raises for public school teachers. Winkler has also been connected to violent far-right extremist groups like the Proud Boys, who regularly spout white nationalist ideology. This is not the kind of representation progressive voters want or need.Eva Henry
Adams County Commissioner Eva Henry is running for reelection in District 1. She has served in this role since 2013; before that, Henry served as the mayor pro tem and a city council member for the city of Thornton.
Ike McCorkle
Ike McCorkle is challenging the Republican incumbent for Colorado’s 4th Congressional District. The single father of three kids believes the people in the district deserve a representative who is dedicated to them, not the elite. In order to get Big Money out of politics, he supports a publicly funded, transparent system of campaign financing and wants to see the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling overturned to limit the influence of special interest groups that are buying much of our governmental leadership.
McCorkle is also an unabashed environmentalist who intends to fight for a Green New Deal not just to address the existential threat of climate change and rapidly transition energy production but to reinvest in rural America and create thousands of good-paying jobs in his district. Other policies he supports are ones that will expand equity and opportunity for everyone, including Medicare for All, tuition-free public college, reducing college debt by imposing a tax on Wall Street speculators, and a universal basic income system.
A retired Marine Corps officer and special operator who served for 18 years, six deployments, and four combat tours, McCorkle seeks to bring dignity and integrity to Congress and restore trust and confidence in government. He is a clear progressive choice who, if elected, plans to bring people with diverse backgrounds and beliefs together to build an American society where we lift each other up so that we all benefit together.
The incumbent he faces is U.S. Sen. Ken Buck, a former prosecutor and district attorney in Weld County who has been in Congress since 2014. His legal career has been marred by numerous ethical scandals, including compromising a case against Republican donors and declining to prosecute a sexual assault, instead blaming the victim. Since he has been in Congress, Buck has toed the party’s extreme right-wing line. He is anti-choice, opposes reasonable gun safety legislation, and has said that being gay is a choice. Buck also voted in favor of the 2017 tax reform bill, which heavily favored the wealthy and corporations while increasing tax burdens on the middle class. With all this in mind, Buck must not remain in office.