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Lori Boydston is a small-business owner, grandmother, and activist running to represent District 60. She has said she was called to action in 2015 after hearing a speech by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and became politically activated. Boydston has helped organize local climate strikes and protests in Salida and describes herself as “for all the progressive values.”
As a representative, Boydston hopes to strengthen broadband access, expand health care, and bring green energy jobs to her community. She believes in Medicare for All and maintains an 11-acre ranch that’s powered in part by solar and thermal panels.Boydston faces significant opposition in a historically conservative district; her values align with progressive ideals, and she needs all the support she can get.
Running for the same seat is Republican Ron Hanks. Hanks’ positions could be described as the polar opposite of Boydston’s. He is a socially and fiscally conservative veteran who sees his message as “based on Reagan’s conservative principles.” He relies on widespread right-wing conspiracies not based in fact to paint the rising threat of leftism and strengthen his pro-gun, anti-government, and pro-energy agenda. Progressives beware.Lori Boydston
Lori Boydston is a small-business owner, grandmother, and activist running to represent District 60. She has said she was called to action in 2015 after hearing a speech by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and became politically activated.
Lori Boydston
Lori Boydston is a small-business owner, grandmother, and activist running to represent District 60. She has said she was called to action in 2015 after hearing a speech by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and became politically activated.
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.