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Democratic candidate Holly Herson is a proud rural Coloradan who grew up on her family’s farm in Frederick and is now settled in Milliken. Her background is in health care, and before recently welcoming a baby, she and her wife were foster parents for troubled teens. It’s only logical that at the top of her priority list are expanding mental health services, increasing access to medical professionals, and making sure treatments are affordable. She also feels strongly that Weld County is at the forefront of being an energy leader but that innovation in alternate production is necessary to keep eastern Colorado from turning into a ghost town.
Herson has a clear passion for trying to bring change to District 48, and voters should rally behind her to do it.
Running on the Republican side is Tonya Van Beber. Lifelong Weld County resident Van Beber is an educational consultant and co-owns an excavating business with her husband. She stands solidly in the Donald Trump camp and has a pretty direct stance about how she wants to represent her district. “We are not Denver, we are not Boulder,” she declares, adding that “we don’t drive Teslas, we don’t see agriculture as a hobby, we depend on oil and gas, we eat beef.” There’s really nothing else for progressives to see here.Holly Herson
Democratic candidate Holly Herson is a proud rural Coloradan who grew up on her family’s farm in Frederick and is now settled in Milliken. Her background is in health care, and before recently welcoming a baby, she and her wife were foster parents for troubled teens.
Democratic candidate Holly Herson is a proud rural Coloradan who grew up on her family’s farm in Frederick and is now settled in Milliken. Her background is in health care, and before recently welcoming a baby, she and her wife were foster parents for troubled teens. It’s only logical that at the top of her priority list are expanding mental health services, increasing access to medical professionals, and making sure treatments are affordable. She also feels strongly that Weld County is at the forefront of being an energy leader but that innovation in alternate production is necessary to keep eastern Colorado from turning into a ghost town.
Herson has a clear passion for trying to bring change to District 48, and voters should rally behind her to do it.
Running on the Republican side is Tonya Van Beber. Lifelong Weld County resident Van Beber is an educational consultant and co-owns an excavating business with her husband. She stands solidly in the Donald Trump camp and has a pretty direct stance about how she wants to represent her district. “We are not Denver, we are not Boulder,” she declares, adding that “we don’t drive Teslas, we don’t see agriculture as a hobby, we depend on oil and gas, we eat beef.” There’s really nothing else for progressives to see here.Holly Herson
Democratic candidate Holly Herson is a proud rural Coloradan who grew up on her family’s farm in Frederick and is now settled in Milliken. Her background is in health care, and before recently welcoming a baby, she and her wife were foster parents for troubled teens.
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.