Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the Hudson Town Hall during Wednesday’s Town Council meeting to oppose a plan to open an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Hudson, which is located about 30 minutes northeast of Denver.
During a debate on May 26, about six weeks before the Associated Press named Victor Marx the winner of the GOP gubernatorial primary, two of Marx’s opponents, state Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer (R-Weld) and state Rep. Scott Bottoms (R-CO Springs), promised not to “support” Marx if he became the nominee.
This week, Planned Parenthood Votes, an independent expenditure committee focused on reproductive justice, announced the launch of their “We Decide” electoral campaign to unseat lawmakers who voted to defund Planned Parenthood. The group will spend $47 million to flip federal House and Senate seats and to support various state-level races. Among the federal races targeted by Planned Parenthood Votes is Colorado’s 8th Congressional District, where U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO) is facing a challenge from Colorado Rep. Manny Rutinel (D-Commerce City). In 2024 Evans beat former U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo (D-CO) by roughly 2,500 votes.
Thursday, July 9 Visibility Brigade — 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. — Sioux Dr. & Thunderbird Dr., Boulder
Last month, U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO) filed what appears to be a corrected financial disclosure form, showing that he earned $345 in “livestock and beef sales” last year.
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]
Editor’s Note: In a Denver 7 interview this week, U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO) stated that “part of me gets a little bit frustrated” when people ask about his grandfather.
Below are protest 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 has made the purposeful decision to belly up to the trough and then just start taking the money and turning a blind eye,” explained U.S. Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) in an Accountability Town Hall on Monday.
During his first congressional campaign, U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO) was asked in a debate whether he would “terminate the Affordable Care Act.” He never answered the question, but he responded to it, in part, by bringing up his wife’s “high-risk pregnancies” and his two boys’ expensive medical “complications,” and then saying, “So I know how critically important it is to make sure that Americans and Coloradans have access to affordable health care.”
