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Democratic candidate Kyra Storojev is an avid community volunteer and a board member for Habitat of Humanity Interfaith Group. She is also a former on-air expert for KCBS-TV providing updated information on new technological communication systems. Storojev has straightforward priorities of expanding access to mental health, education, and the environment. She is committed to reducing the subsidies for oil and gas extraction by applying them to alternative energies to reduce our overall reliance on carbon-based energies. She is a solid candidate for progressives to support.
Incumbent State Rep. Kim Ransom is a Republican and has been in the office for five years. Ransom recently made news for being the only member of the powerful Joint Budget Committee to refuse to wear a mask during hearings about how to handle the enormous budget cuts Colorado faced due to the economic devastation from the coronavirus. She has repeatedly voted for some of the most extreme conservative legislation brought in Colorado, and as a result, we can not recommend Ransom’s reelection.
Brian Meyer is on the ballot as a Libertarian. He seems to have no campaign website or discoverable social media presence nor made any public policy statements, and so his policy stances outside of his party affiliation are unknown.Kyra Storojev
Democratic candidate Kyra Storojev is an avid community volunteer and a board member for Habitat of Humanity Interfaith Group. She is also a former on-air expert for KCBS-TV providing updated information on new technological communication systems.
Democratic candidate Kyra Storojev is an avid community volunteer and a board member for Habitat of Humanity Interfaith Group. She is also a former on-air expert for KCBS-TV providing updated information on new technological communication systems. Storojev has straightforward priorities of expanding access to mental health, education, and the environment. She is committed to reducing the subsidies for oil and gas extraction by applying them to alternative energies to reduce our overall reliance on carbon-based energies. She is a solid candidate for progressives to support.
Incumbent State Rep. Kim Ransom is a Republican and has been in the office for five years. Ransom recently made news for being the only member of the powerful Joint Budget Committee to refuse to wear a mask during hearings about how to handle the enormous budget cuts Colorado faced due to the economic devastation from the coronavirus. She has repeatedly voted for some of the most extreme conservative legislation brought in Colorado, and as a result, we can not recommend Ransom’s reelection.
Brian Meyer is on the ballot as a Libertarian. He seems to have no campaign website or discoverable social media presence nor made any public policy statements, and so his policy stances outside of his party affiliation are unknown.Kyra Storojev
Democratic candidate Kyra Storojev is an avid community volunteer and a board member for Habitat of Humanity Interfaith Group. She is also a former on-air expert for KCBS-TV providing updated information on new technological communication systems.
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.