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Democratic candidate Yara Zokaie is a tax attorney, mom of two young children, and first-generation Iranian American whose platform issues lean toward supporting the services people need to live well in this modern world. Topping her priorities are helping working families by ensuring paid family leave, fair wages and union rights, and universal preschool. She wants to see agricultural lands protected from fracking and drilling and the repeal of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) to ease the burden on the middle class.
Zokaie’s outlook and ambitions are fresh with a clear progressive edge, and she is the recommended candidate for District 49 representative.
Opposing her in the race is Mike Lynch, whose background is as a business executive and thought leader in a wide variety of industries. His campaign materials build up this experience but don’t talk much about where he stands on exact issues other than “freedom from tyranny,” “keeping capitalism alive,” and “moving Colorado forward into a more conservative, free-market thinking system.” And his social media presence and sound bites are largely for railing about how he thinks “incompetent” Democrats have “let our state turn into a third-world country.” Putting this rhetoric into office feels likely to bring nothing but more bluster. Vote for Zokaie.Yara Zokaie
Democratic candidate Yara Zokaie is a tax attorney, mom of two young children, and first-generation Iranian American whose platform issues lean toward supporting the services people need to live well in this modern world.
Democratic candidate Yara Zokaie is a tax attorney, mom of two young children, and first-generation Iranian American whose platform issues lean toward supporting the services people need to live well in this modern world. Topping her priorities are helping working families by ensuring paid family leave, fair wages and union rights, and universal preschool. She wants to see agricultural lands protected from fracking and drilling and the repeal of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) to ease the burden on the middle class.
Zokaie’s outlook and ambitions are fresh with a clear progressive edge, and she is the recommended candidate for District 49 representative.
Opposing her in the race is Mike Lynch, whose background is as a business executive and thought leader in a wide variety of industries. His campaign materials build up this experience but don’t talk much about where he stands on exact issues other than “freedom from tyranny,” “keeping capitalism alive,” and “moving Colorado forward into a more conservative, free-market thinking system.” And his social media presence and sound bites are largely for railing about how he thinks “incompetent” Democrats have “let our state turn into a third-world country.” Putting this rhetoric into office feels likely to bring nothing but more bluster. Vote for Zokaie.Yara Zokaie
Democratic candidate Yara Zokaie is a tax attorney, mom of two young children, and first-generation Iranian American whose platform issues lean toward supporting the services people need to live well in this modern world.
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.
