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Liz Rosenbaum is running to represent Colorado House District 21. Rosenbaum has a long history of public service and community work. She started a successful military family support group after 9/11 for which she received the U.S. Army’s Commander’s Award for Public Service.
The longtime public school teacher also has a fierce passion for environmental justice, particularly as it pertains to public safety. Rosenbaum founded and organized the Fountain Valley Clean Water Coalition, which is dedicated to keeping tabs on extensive water testing data that demonstrate the widespread occurrence of toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) in Colorado waters. She even testified on behalf of HB20-1143, enacted in July, which raises the maximum fines for air and water quality violations and allocates the fines to environmental mitigation projects.
Among her intended priorities for the 2021 session, if elected, are several key issues. One is strong voter and working-class family representation that doesn’t bow to “million-dollar companies acquiring more wealth.” She also would push for public education funding, particularly when it can lead to meaningful job creation; wider inclusivity in the laws that govern us; measures that look for long-term prevention of environmental contamination; and widespread access to affordable housing, broadband internet, and paid family leave.
A Republican and a Libertarian are also seeking the open District 21 seat. Mary Bradfield is a retired teacher with a long history of participation with the Republican Party and espouses many of its standard beliefs, such as limited government interference. While she seems closer to center on her views — her stated priorities are distinctly mental health, affordable housing, and public safety — she is also a strong supporter of protecting Second Amendment rights. She also cryptically said in her Facebook-posted campaign launch speech that “public safety in schools … I can see where this is a double-edged sword, and that’s a conversation perhaps for another time.” Public safety in schools seems like a no-brainer if you ask us.
Michael Seebeck is a longtime Libertarian activist and party leader. However, as all of us are working to navigate the coronavirus pandemic, Seebeck’s social platforms mainly show high criticism of Gov. Jared Polis’ health and safety orders and of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and its data. His public posts have been flagged multiple times by Facebook for containing false information related to COVID-19. His political priorities for this seat other than that are unknown. It’s not recommended he be elected to any office.Liz Rosenbaum
Liz Rosenbaum is running to represent Colorado House District 21. Rosenbaum has a long history of public service and community work. She started a successful military family support group after 9/11 for which she received the U.S. Army’s Commander’s Award for Public Service.
Liz Rosenbaum is running to represent Colorado House District 21. Rosenbaum has a long history of public service and community work. She started a successful military family support group after 9/11 for which she received the U.S. Army’s Commander’s Award for Public Service.
The longtime public school teacher also has a fierce passion for environmental justice, particularly as it pertains to public safety. Rosenbaum founded and organized the Fountain Valley Clean Water Coalition, which is dedicated to keeping tabs on extensive water testing data that demonstrate the widespread occurrence of toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) in Colorado waters. She even testified on behalf of HB20-1143, enacted in July, which raises the maximum fines for air and water quality violations and allocates the fines to environmental mitigation projects.
Among her intended priorities for the 2021 session, if elected, are several key issues. One is strong voter and working-class family representation that doesn’t bow to “million-dollar companies acquiring more wealth.” She also would push for public education funding, particularly when it can lead to meaningful job creation; wider inclusivity in the laws that govern us; measures that look for long-term prevention of environmental contamination; and widespread access to affordable housing, broadband internet, and paid family leave.
A Republican and a Libertarian are also seeking the open District 21 seat. Mary Bradfield is a retired teacher with a long history of participation with the Republican Party and espouses many of its standard beliefs, such as limited government interference. While she seems closer to center on her views — her stated priorities are distinctly mental health, affordable housing, and public safety — she is also a strong supporter of protecting Second Amendment rights. She also cryptically said in her Facebook-posted campaign launch speech that “public safety in schools … I can see where this is a double-edged sword, and that’s a conversation perhaps for another time.” Public safety in schools seems like a no-brainer if you ask us.
Michael Seebeck is a longtime Libertarian activist and party leader. However, as all of us are working to navigate the coronavirus pandemic, Seebeck’s social platforms mainly show high criticism of Gov. Jared Polis’ health and safety orders and of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and its data. His public posts have been flagged multiple times by Facebook for containing false information related to COVID-19. His political priorities for this seat other than that are unknown. It’s not recommended he be elected to any office.Liz Rosenbaum
Liz Rosenbaum is running to represent Colorado House District 21. Rosenbaum has a long history of public service and community work. She started a successful military family support group after 9/11 for which she received the U.S. Army’s Commander’s Award for Public Service.
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.