U.S. Congress
CO-01: Melat Kiros
CO-02: Joe Neguse
CO-08: Manny Rutinel
State
Governor: Phil Weiser
Secretary of State: Amanda Gonzalez
Senate District 17: Katie Wallace
Senate District 27: Tom Sullivan
Senate District 34: Chela Garcia Irlando
House District 6: Iris Halpern
House District 10: Junie Joseph
House District 25: Tammy Story
House District 57: Elizabeth Velasco
Local
Arapahoe County Commission, District 2: Jessica Campbell
Ballot Measures
OPPOSE: Amendment 82, Initiative 177, Constitutional Right to Natural Gas
This constitutional amendment would permanently enshrine a vague “right to natural gas” that would be a significant barrier to Colorado’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions and air pollution. If passed, it could also be used to take legal action against local governments and the state for implementing safety inspections, pollution limits, or distance buffers from places like playgrounds, schools, homes, hospitals, and waterbodies.
OPPOSE: Amendment 83, Initiative 302, Constitutional Right to Hunt and Fish
Hunting and fishing rights are already protected in Colorado by state statute. This constitutional amendment seeks to make hunting and fishing through traditional methods the preferred means for wildlife management. Backed by anti-wildlife groups including Safari Club International, this measure could upend state wildlife management, make it harder to protect wildlife in the face of climate change and the extinction crisis, and overturn Colorado voters’ ban of cruel practices like leghold traps and wildlife killing contests. By requiring that any wildlife management be deemed “reasonable and necessary,” it also invites legal challenges and delaying wildlife protections until it’s too late.
OPPOSE: Amendment 84, Initiative 362, Mail Ballot Voter Identification
This constitutional amendment would require mail ballot envelopes to include either the last four digits of the person’s social security number, their driver’s license number, or an ID card number even though such voter identification information is already required for voter registration. Duplicating voter identification information on an envelope wouldn’t improve election security but would make it easier for ballots to be voided (due to missing information or honest mistakes) or for sensitive personal information to be stolen from unused and discarded ballots.
OPPOSE: Amendment 86, Initiative 256, Congressional Redistricting
This constitutional amendment would make it harder to change congressional maps in response to gerrymandering and could decrease Colorado’s influence at the federal level.
OPPOSE: Proposition 137, Initiative 308, Sporting Goods Sales Tax Revenue
This initiative purports to direct revenues to conservation programs, wildfire mitigation, and forest restoration, but it would actually allow for expanded logging and road building throughout Colorado’s forests. This initiative would quadruple the amount of funding the Colorado State Forest Service receives instead of prioritizing the most effective solutions for protecting communities, such as home hardening.