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Sandy Hollingsworth is the Democratic candidate for Gilpin’s District 3 commissioner. With her 25-year experience as a municipal employee and decades as a resident in the county, she knows how this particular local government works. She’s been listening to residents and wants to get to work helping people recover from the COVID-19-related economic downturn while keeping the county on its otherwise thriving strategic-development track. She has sights set on expanding health care and senior services as well as emergency preparedness. She also knows a top concern for Gilpin residents is the environment, and she is ready to work on preventing any threats to the area’s forest and mountain lands. We recommend supporting Hollingsworth.
Running on the Republican side is Doug Lupo. He previously ran for the position in 2016 as an Independent and has experience with the military, executive management, and the fire protection district. Lupo noted in his previous campaign that he would take a business approach and listen to people and investigate what they’re saying, but when it comes to having a plan in hand, Hollingsworth’s forward-looking platform is much clearer.Sandy Hollingsworth
Sandy Hollingsworth is the Democratic candidate for Gilpin’s District 3 commissioner. With her 25-year experience as a municipal employee and decades as a resident in the county, she knows how this particular local government works.
Sandy Hollingsworth is the Democratic candidate for Gilpin’s District 3 commissioner. With her 25-year experience as a municipal employee and decades as a resident in the county, she knows how this particular local government works. She’s been listening to residents and wants to get to work helping people recover from the COVID-19-related economic downturn while keeping the county on its otherwise thriving strategic-development track. She has sights set on expanding health care and senior services as well as emergency preparedness. She also knows a top concern for Gilpin residents is the environment, and she is ready to work on preventing any threats to the area’s forest and mountain lands. We recommend supporting Hollingsworth.
Running on the Republican side is Doug Lupo. He previously ran for the position in 2016 as an Independent and has experience with the military, executive management, and the fire protection district. Lupo noted in his previous campaign that he would take a business approach and listen to people and investigate what they’re saying, but when it comes to having a plan in hand, Hollingsworth’s forward-looking platform is much clearer.Sandy Hollingsworth
Sandy Hollingsworth is the Democratic candidate for Gilpin’s District 3 commissioner. With her 25-year experience as a municipal employee and decades as a resident in the county, she knows how this particular local government works.
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.