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John Foley, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, is running on a platform of protecting and caring for Colorado’s communities and improving our economy.
Foley has been outspoken about the rise of white supremacists and hate groups in Colorado and seeks to continue to take them on as a legislator. He wants to pursue commonsense gun safety laws, health care that’s more affordable, increased vaccination rates, criminal justice system reform, and strengthening schools’ STEM programs. Of particular concern is how the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) has held back the state’s economy, even hindering the response to the COVID-19 crisis, and he vows to roll back its effects.
Progressive voters don’t need to look hard for reasons to support Foley’s ambitious goals and elect him as their next District 14 representative.
He is challenging incumbent Republican extremist State Rep. Shane Sandridge. During the 2020 legislative session, Sandridge sponsored a slew of anti-LGBTQ legislation that would have allowed bans and refusal of services based on sexual orientation or gender identity and criminalized doctors who treat transgender minors. He also sought to prohibit abortions from the moment of conception without exceptions and opposed a law aimed at boosting vaccination rates. It’s no surprise his anti-science agenda extends to the COVID-19 pandemic as he has asserted the public health orders to wear masks violate “the Constitution and our liberties.” These stances combined with a history of telling law enforcement not to bother with risk protection at a rally with Three Percenters and Proud Boys are simply outright dangerous. Sandridge has to go.
Also in the race is Libertarian David Thompson. Thompson as of mid-September had no campaign website and no discoverable social media presence.John Foley
John Foley, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, is running on a platform of protecting and caring for Colorado’s communities and improving our economy.
John Foley, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, is running on a platform of protecting and caring for Colorado’s communities and improving our economy.
Foley has been outspoken about the rise of white supremacists and hate groups in Colorado and seeks to continue to take them on as a legislator. He wants to pursue commonsense gun safety laws, health care that’s more affordable, increased vaccination rates, criminal justice system reform, and strengthening schools’ STEM programs. Of particular concern is how the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) has held back the state’s economy, even hindering the response to the COVID-19 crisis, and he vows to roll back its effects.
Progressive voters don’t need to look hard for reasons to support Foley’s ambitious goals and elect him as their next District 14 representative.
He is challenging incumbent Republican extremist State Rep. Shane Sandridge. During the 2020 legislative session, Sandridge sponsored a slew of anti-LGBTQ legislation that would have allowed bans and refusal of services based on sexual orientation or gender identity and criminalized doctors who treat transgender minors. He also sought to prohibit abortions from the moment of conception without exceptions and opposed a law aimed at boosting vaccination rates. It’s no surprise his anti-science agenda extends to the COVID-19 pandemic as he has asserted the public health orders to wear masks violate “the Constitution and our liberties.” These stances combined with a history of telling law enforcement not to bother with risk protection at a rally with Three Percenters and Proud Boys are simply outright dangerous. Sandridge has to go.
Also in the race is Libertarian David Thompson. Thompson as of mid-September had no campaign website and no discoverable social media presence.John Foley
John Foley, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, is running on a platform of protecting and caring for Colorado’s communities and improving our economy.
Jillian Freeland
Jillian Freeland, a retired midwife and entrepreneur, is challenging the Republican incumbent in Colorado’s 5th Congressional District. She describes herself as a millennial mom “fighting for the future I want for my kids and my fellow humans.”
Some of her top priorities are roundly accessible, complete health care coverage and a bigger shift to domestic energy. As a women’s health care provider, Freeland took on insurance companies to make them cover the services that people pay for. She understands what’s broken in the system and wants to work to fix it. On energy, she supports the federal government’s investment in domestic renewable resources as well as creating good-paying union jobs in the process. She also wants to see funding for the education and pensions of workers transitioning out of the fossil fuel industry to make sure they don't get left behind.
In addition to being a fierce protector of reproductive rights, Freeland backs enacting gun safety regulations and eliminating loopholes in our tax code that allow corporations and the ultra-wealthy to avoid paying their fair share. She also thinks we must move away from a punitive criminal justice system to a rehabilitative one that doesn’t treat addiction and mental illness as crimes.
Freeland’s campaign lays her out as an everyday citizen who has struggled to make student loan payments, used the Medicaid and food stamps systems, and owned a small business but one who has also been highly involved in serving her community. She can bring a perspective to Congress that is not often reflected there, and she is a solid choice to support in this election.
Her opponent is incumbent U.S. Sen. Doug Lamborn, a career politician who has served the Colorado Springs area in various roles since his first election to the Colorado House in 1994. Since getting to Congress in 2006, Lamborn has laid low and had only three bills signed into law: a World War I commemorative coin, naming a road in Colorado Springs, and a procedural bill transferring land from the Department of Agriculture. Lamborn has toed the Republican Party line: He’s anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ, and anti-gun-regulation and thinks raising the minimum wage will force businesses to fire workers. A progressive vote would be wasted on Lamborn.