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Democratic candidate Meg Fossinger has been a dedicated social worker for over 15 years and a disaster volunteer for the American Red Cross. She prioritizes reforming the criminal justice system in a way that provides support to victims and helps lower recidivism rates. Fossinger is also passionate about education; as a volunteer at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, she knows the importance of educational programs for children and the value of one-on-one learning.
During the devastation of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Fossinger was deployed to New York and witnessed the effects of human-made climate change. She has worked to bring forth disaster mitigation and environmental protection policies and is committed to making a difference, which her track record has proven she is capable of.
Fossinger is the top choice for progressive support in this race.
She seeks to unseat the current representative, Republican Terri Carver. Carver is a former lawyer who advocates for protecting Second Amendment gun rights. She also has said she supports criminal justice reform, but she voted in opposition of historic bill SB20-217 — the first step taken by Colorado to address the systemic injustice inflicted on Black and Brown communities at the hands of law enforcement.
Also on the ballot is Judith Darcy. She has been active with the Libertarian Party for over seven years and is its current outreach coordinator. Darcy, in her own words, has defined the upcoming elections as a choice between “freedom or tyranny.” The priorities she expresses on social media are classic Libertarian ideologies: less government, privacy rights, and equal accountability. The progressive vote should be used to get Fossinger into office.Meg Fossinger
Democratic candidate Meg Fossinger has been a dedicated social worker for over 15 years and a disaster volunteer for the American Red Cross. She prioritizes reforming the criminal justice system in a way that provides support to victims and helps lower recidivism rates.
Democratic candidate Meg Fossinger has been a dedicated social worker for over 15 years and a disaster volunteer for the American Red Cross. She prioritizes reforming the criminal justice system in a way that provides support to victims and helps lower recidivism rates. Fossinger is also passionate about education; as a volunteer at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, she knows the importance of educational programs for children and the value of one-on-one learning.
During the devastation of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Fossinger was deployed to New York and witnessed the effects of human-made climate change. She has worked to bring forth disaster mitigation and environmental protection policies and is committed to making a difference, which her track record has proven she is capable of.
Fossinger is the top choice for progressive support in this race.
She seeks to unseat the current representative, Republican Terri Carver. Carver is a former lawyer who advocates for protecting Second Amendment gun rights. She also has said she supports criminal justice reform, but she voted in opposition of historic bill SB20-217 — the first step taken by Colorado to address the systemic injustice inflicted on Black and Brown communities at the hands of law enforcement.
Also on the ballot is Judith Darcy. She has been active with the Libertarian Party for over seven years and is its current outreach coordinator. Darcy, in her own words, has defined the upcoming elections as a choice between “freedom or tyranny.” The priorities she expresses on social media are classic Libertarian ideologies: less government, privacy rights, and equal accountability. The progressive vote should be used to get Fossinger into office.Meg Fossinger
Democratic candidate Meg Fossinger has been a dedicated social worker for over 15 years and a disaster volunteer for the American Red Cross. She prioritizes reforming the criminal justice system in a way that provides support to victims and helps lower recidivism rates.
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.
Progressives are split on Amendment 77, known as the Allow Voters in Central, Black Hawk, and Cripple Creek Cities to Expand Authorized Games and Increase Maximum Bets Initiative. Please read the arguments from both sides below to help you make your decision on this amendment.