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Stephanie Vigil is running for District 16 representative to “fight for a solid foundation on which all Coloradans can thrive,” saying there’s no reason the state, with one of the strongest economies in the country, cannot ensure every individual and family has a roof over their heads, access to essential utilities, necessary medical care, and a livable wage.
Vigil strongly supports building a multimodal, fully integrated transit infrastructure system to allow Coloradans enough choices to get where they need to go with or without a privately owned vehicle. She believes establishing a Front Range passenger rail system that connects the state’s urban centers would help get cars off the road, reduce pollution, and go a long way in building up the rest of our economy and improving our quality of life. Other priorities include restorative and rehabilitative criminal justice reform and fully funding our public schools. She vows to fight for full reproductive freedom and leveling the power imbalance between property owners and tenants.
If elected, Vigil would bring a necessary perspective to the Capitol that is too often not present when our laws are being made. She is clearly the top candidate to support in this race.
Running against her is Andres Pico, a current city council and utilities board member in Colorado Springs. Pico is a staunch pro-Trump Republican who is opposed to abortion rights, skeptical of climate change, and is “a life member of the NRA and a defender of the Second Amendment.” Pico has fought for years against the closure of the Martin Drake Power Plant, the last coal-fired plant in a downtown urban area in Colorado, even though it releases over a million tons of toxic air pollution per year, on the basis that it’s “cost-effective.” He has tried to ban refugees from Middle Eastern countries from moving to Colorado Springs, and he is well known to promote disinformation on social media, particularly accusing Democrats of “gun running,” “sex trafficking,” and “spying on political opponents.” He must not be elected to a state office lest Colorado policies actually move backward.
Libertarian John Hjersman is also on the ballot for a third time, having run for this seat in 2016 and 2018. He has served on the party’s state board of directors and has a classic Libertarian platform. He thinks the government’s COVID-19 response is a violation of freedoms and questions the scientific consensus on climate change.Stephanie Vigil
Stephanie Vigil is running for District 16 representative to “fight for a solid foundation on which all Coloradans can thrive,” saying there’s no reason the state, with one of the strongest economies in the country, cannot ensure every individual and family has a roof over their
Stephanie Vigil is running for District 16 representative to “fight for a solid foundation on which all Coloradans can thrive,” saying there’s no reason the state, with one of the strongest economies in the country, cannot ensure every individual and family has a roof over their heads, access to essential utilities, necessary medical care, and a livable wage.
Vigil strongly supports building a multimodal, fully integrated transit infrastructure system to allow Coloradans enough choices to get where they need to go with or without a privately owned vehicle. She believes establishing a Front Range passenger rail system that connects the state’s urban centers would help get cars off the road, reduce pollution, and go a long way in building up the rest of our economy and improving our quality of life. Other priorities include restorative and rehabilitative criminal justice reform and fully funding our public schools. She vows to fight for full reproductive freedom and leveling the power imbalance between property owners and tenants.
If elected, Vigil would bring a necessary perspective to the Capitol that is too often not present when our laws are being made. She is clearly the top candidate to support in this race.
Running against her is Andres Pico, a current city council and utilities board member in Colorado Springs. Pico is a staunch pro-Trump Republican who is opposed to abortion rights, skeptical of climate change, and is “a life member of the NRA and a defender of the Second Amendment.” Pico has fought for years against the closure of the Martin Drake Power Plant, the last coal-fired plant in a downtown urban area in Colorado, even though it releases over a million tons of toxic air pollution per year, on the basis that it’s “cost-effective.” He has tried to ban refugees from Middle Eastern countries from moving to Colorado Springs, and he is well known to promote disinformation on social media, particularly accusing Democrats of “gun running,” “sex trafficking,” and “spying on political opponents.” He must not be elected to a state office lest Colorado policies actually move backward.
Libertarian John Hjersman is also on the ballot for a third time, having run for this seat in 2016 and 2018. He has served on the party’s state board of directors and has a classic Libertarian platform. He thinks the government’s COVID-19 response is a violation of freedoms and questions the scientific consensus on climate change.Stephanie Vigil
Stephanie Vigil is running for District 16 representative to “fight for a solid foundation on which all Coloradans can thrive,” saying there’s no reason the state, with one of the strongest economies in the country, cannot ensure every individual and family has a roof over their
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.