Forty-one elected officials and candidates in Colorado have pledged to increase the “availability of mental health care for everyone in need, promote wellness and early intervention by expanding youth mental health services, and improve crisis response for anyone experiencing a mental health emergency.”
With three weeks until the election, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe O’Dea, Republican gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl, and Republican Attorney General candidate John Keller all held campaign events in Colorado Springs this weekend.
During an interview Tuesday with Marty Lenz on KOA radio, U.S. Senate candidate Joe O’Dea claimed he hasn’t changed his position on abortion since launching his campaign.
Colorado lawmakers Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO) and John Hickenlooper (D-CO), Governor Jared Polis, and U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO) sent a letter to President Joe Biden yesterday urging him to use the Antiquities Act and other presidential authorities to protect Colorado’s Camp Hale and the Tenmile Range as the Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument.
This week Democratic lawmakers in Colorado held events to bring attention to their efforts to prevent more gun violence and mass shootings ahead of the November election. According to Colorado Democratic Party Executive Director Karin Asensio, gun deaths and injuries have cost Colorado $11.7 billion each year.
O’Dea pictured on the 3R “Big Ride” (photo via Facebook) In late July, U.S. Senate candidate and Denver businessman Joe O’Dea participated in a week-long excursion in the Rio Grande National Forest with people who have contributed a significant amount of money to his campaign.
Polis, Vilsack, Bennet, Hickenlooper CAMP Hale, Colo. – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, a wealthy Iowa farmer and former governor, has many Colorado connections and clearly understands the plight of the dwindling Colorado River.
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) has been endorsed by the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. Bennet is facing a challenge from Republican Joe O’Dea, who doesn’t support Colorado Reproductive Health Equity Act (RHEA), but also didn’t support overturning Roe v. Wade, but also supported the nomination of the three conservative Supreme Court Justices who voted to overturn Roe.
The Senate’s weekend passage of a $369 billion package of spending to fight climate change is drawing cheers from environmental advocates and calls for the bill’s swift adoption in the House of Representatives.
Following the primary elections in Colorado, local Democrats held a “Unity Rally” in Acacia Park in Colorado Springs Wednesday, headlined by U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO). While Democrats are rallying supporters over the recent Dobbs Supreme Court decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade, members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are urging Democratic elected officials to take action to end the filibuster, the 60-vote threshold in the Senate needed to pass legislation, and expand the Supreme Court.
