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Joe Thompson is running to represent District 19 “to give back to the county that has given [him] so much.” Thompson, a disabled veteran, served 35 years working for the Department of Defense, where he managed budgets and structures for large Army organizations. His top priorities are improving Colorado’s education system, with a focus on STEM fields and affordable colleges; investing in sustainable energy sources and helping fossil-fuel workers transition to new jobs; and moving toward a universal health care system. If elected, Thompson will also fight for livable wages, lower housing costs, and making the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes.
Thompson is the progressive voter’s best choice in this race.
He is challenging incumbent Republican State Rep. Tim Geitner. Geitner, a military reserve officer and small-business owner, was first elected to the statehouse in 2018 and has already proven himself to be a consistent vote for far-right policies in that time. He has sponsored anti-LGBTQ, anti-abortion, and anti-vaccination legislation and wants to establish a “Parental Bill of Rights” so parents can control all those health care decisions for their children. He wants to roll back police transparency reforms and has voted against every environmentally friendly bill. Geitner must not remain in office.Joe Thompson
Joe Thompson is running to represent District 19 “to give back to the county that has given [him] so much.” Thompson, a disabled veteran, served 35 years working for the Department of Defense, where he managed budgets and structures for large Army organizations.
Joe Thompson is running to represent District 19 “to give back to the county that has given [him] so much.” Thompson, a disabled veteran, served 35 years working for the Department of Defense, where he managed budgets and structures for large Army organizations. His top priorities are improving Colorado’s education system, with a focus on STEM fields and affordable colleges; investing in sustainable energy sources and helping fossil-fuel workers transition to new jobs; and moving toward a universal health care system. If elected, Thompson will also fight for livable wages, lower housing costs, and making the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes.
Thompson is the progressive voter’s best choice in this race.
He is challenging incumbent Republican State Rep. Tim Geitner. Geitner, a military reserve officer and small-business owner, was first elected to the statehouse in 2018 and has already proven himself to be a consistent vote for far-right policies in that time. He has sponsored anti-LGBTQ, anti-abortion, and anti-vaccination legislation and wants to establish a “Parental Bill of Rights” so parents can control all those health care decisions for their children. He wants to roll back police transparency reforms and has voted against every environmentally friendly bill. Geitner must not remain in office.Joe Thompson
Joe Thompson is running to represent District 19 “to give back to the county that has given [him] so much.” Thompson, a disabled veteran, served 35 years working for the Department of Defense, where he managed budgets and structures for large Army organizations.
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.