Gabe Evans is making a habit of staging photo ops at businesses in his district, claiming he’s championing them in Congress. But Evans’ eight votes in favor of Trump’s tariffs, among other priorities of the president, have hurt or disrupted the industries Evans says he’s helping.
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Gabe Evans Won’t Say if He’ll Return Donations from Disgraced Republican
According to data from the Federal Election Commission (FEC), U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO) received $5,000 in donations from the political action committee tied to the congressman at the heart of a growing domestic violence scandal.
In The Streets: ‘Medicare Saved My Life’ and Other Upcoming Political Events
Below are protests and political events scheduled across Colorado over the next week. If you know of any upcoming public events in Colorado, please let us know at [email protected]
‘People’s Hearing’ Spotlights Ethical and Legal Concerns About a Proposed ICE Jail East of Denver
On Wednesday, Together Colorado, a progressive advocacy organization, hosted a “People’s Hearing” on a proposed ICE jail in Hudson, 30 minutes east of Denver. The hearing offered legal and ethical rebukes of the detention center to a crowd of 50 people, featuring faith leaders, legal experts, and activists. It immediately preceded a Hudson City Council meeting that would discuss the issue further.
In The Streets: ‘People’s Hearing on the Hudson ICE Detention Center’ and Other Political Events
Below are protests and political events scheduled across Colorado over the next week. If you know of any upcoming public events in Colorado, please let us know at [email protected]
Birthday of Medicaid Marked by Rally Denouncing Gabe Evans for Slashing the Program
“Last year, Medicaid was just another word to me,” said Thomas (TJ) Buckley, after explaining to a small crowd in Northglenn how he’d been blindsided by a horrible disease that he’s been able to fight thanks to Medicaid, a federal health insurance program for low-income people. “I hope none of you ever have to learn why Medicaid truly matters the way I did. Today it means something entirely different. It means another appointment kept, another treatment received, another chance to plan for the future, another holiday celebrated with friends and family, another ordinary day that suddenly doesn’t feel so ordinary anymore.”
In The Streets: Medicare Birthday Rally and Other Political Events
Below are protests and political events scheduled across Colorado over the next week. If you know of any upcoming public events in Colorado, please let us know at [email protected]
Gabe Evans Promised Medicaid Cuts Wouldn’t Affect ‘People Who Need It Most,’ But They’re Putting Hospitals at Risk
Before and after Republicans voted to cut Medicaid about a year ago, Washington Republicans insisted that their narrow focus was to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse from the health care program, not to siphon budget dollars for tax cuts or to cut funding for hospitals that need it.
In The Streets: ‘End ICE Flights’ and More Upcoming Political Events
Below are protests and political events scheduled across Colorado over the next week. If you know of any upcoming public events in Colorado, please let us know at [email protected]
Right-Winger’s Beef: Let’s Focus on ‘Serious’ Issues, Not Whether Democrat Was a Vegan in College
Last week, right-wing radio host Jeff Hunt topped off a sililoquy of damnations of 9News anchor Kyle Clark with something unusual. He condemned Clark’s coverage of a Democrat, not of a Republican, saying that Clark wastes his time and ours bringing up minor and irrelevant nitpicks instead of being “serious” and addressing the “problems that we’re facing.”