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Incumbent State Rep. Jeni Arndt has diverse experience as an ESL teacher, middle school principal, and university faculty member. She has served as a representative for District 53 since 2015 and has become a leading voice in education, agriculture, and water rights. She sponsored a bill repealing the death penalty in Colorado that was signed into law earlier this year. Another of her biggest moves was on the National Popular Vote Compact. The bill, which she co-sponsored, would add Colorado to the group of states that want their electoral votes awarded to the winner of the nationwide popular vote in presidential elections. She recently told KUNC that “it’s a way to enfranchise every voter in the United States to have their voice heard.” Arndt has taken on major progressive policy fights and brought them across the finish line.
Arndt has proven her dedication to progressive values while emphasizing civility in political discourse. She is the best candidate in this race to represent her district and will continue to fight for the priorities of her constituents.
Also on the ballot is Adam Shuknecht, a member of the Libertarian Party. He has not made any policy stances widely known.Jeni Arndt
Incumbent State Rep. Jeni Arndt has diverse experience as an ESL teacher, middle school principal, and university faculty member. She has served as a representative for District 53 since 2015 and has become a leading voice in education, agriculture, and water rights.
Incumbent State Rep. Jeni Arndt has diverse experience as an ESL teacher, middle school principal, and university faculty member. She has served as a representative for District 53 since 2015 and has become a leading voice in education, agriculture, and water rights. She sponsored a bill repealing the death penalty in Colorado that was signed into law earlier this year. Another of her biggest moves was on the National Popular Vote Compact. The bill, which she co-sponsored, would add Colorado to the group of states that want their electoral votes awarded to the winner of the nationwide popular vote in presidential elections. She recently told KUNC that “it’s a way to enfranchise every voter in the United States to have their voice heard.” Arndt has taken on major progressive policy fights and brought them across the finish line.
Arndt has proven her dedication to progressive values while emphasizing civility in political discourse. She is the best candidate in this race to represent her district and will continue to fight for the priorities of her constituents.
Also on the ballot is Adam Shuknecht, a member of the Libertarian Party. He has not made any policy stances widely known.Jeni Arndt
Incumbent State Rep. Jeni Arndt has diverse experience as an ESL teacher, middle school principal, and university faculty member. She has served as a representative for District 53 since 2015 and has become a leading voice in education, agriculture, and water rights.
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.