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Lynn Baca is running for election to represent District 5 as its commissioner. Baca grew up in Brighton and graduated from Brighton High School. In 2011, she was elected to the Brighton City Council and just earlier this year completed the maximum two terms.
Baca is passionate about giving back to her community and is running for commissioner on three platform issues: preserving Adams County’s beautiful open spaces, building up regional transportation infrastructure to keep up with the growth that the county is experiencing, and putting the best housing options in place for residents.
Her family background is in agricultural farming, and she is an advocate for farmland preservation. Before she became a city council member, she volunteered to serve on an agricultural land subcommittee for the city of Brighton, focusing on how to preserve it considering the increased development in the area.
Baca is a hardworking, compassionate, and effective public servant who puts the people of Adams County first. We recommend Baca for Adams County District 5 in this election.
Her opponent, Phil Covarrubias, is a veteran, small-business owner, and former state legislator from Brighton. Despite his experience, however, Covarrubias is known to spread false stories, conspiracy theories, and right-wing propaganda from groups like Breitbart and other bad actors on social media. When he does talk about the issues, Covarrubias believes in regressive policies, such as rolling back oil and gas setbacks and regulations. This is not the kind of leadership we need in Adams County while we continue to see the devastating effects of climate change all over Colorado.Lynn Baca
Lynn Baca is running for election to represent District 5 as its commissioner. Baca grew up in Brighton and graduated from Brighton High School. In 2011, she was elected to the Brighton City Council and just earlier this year completed the maximum two terms.
Lynn Baca is running for election to represent District 5 as its commissioner. Baca grew up in Brighton and graduated from Brighton High School. In 2011, she was elected to the Brighton City Council and just earlier this year completed the maximum two terms.
Baca is passionate about giving back to her community and is running for commissioner on three platform issues: preserving Adams County’s beautiful open spaces, building up regional transportation infrastructure to keep up with the growth that the county is experiencing, and putting the best housing options in place for residents.
Her family background is in agricultural farming, and she is an advocate for farmland preservation. Before she became a city council member, she volunteered to serve on an agricultural land subcommittee for the city of Brighton, focusing on how to preserve it considering the increased development in the area.
Baca is a hardworking, compassionate, and effective public servant who puts the people of Adams County first. We recommend Baca for Adams County District 5 in this election.
Her opponent, Phil Covarrubias, is a veteran, small-business owner, and former state legislator from Brighton. Despite his experience, however, Covarrubias is known to spread false stories, conspiracy theories, and right-wing propaganda from groups like Breitbart and other bad actors on social media. When he does talk about the issues, Covarrubias believes in regressive policies, such as rolling back oil and gas setbacks and regulations. This is not the kind of leadership we need in Adams County while we continue to see the devastating effects of climate change all over Colorado.Lynn Baca
Lynn Baca is running for election to represent District 5 as its commissioner. Baca grew up in Brighton and graduated from Brighton High School. In 2011, she was elected to the Brighton City Council and just earlier this year completed the maximum two terms.
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.