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Save the EarthThe Case for Publicly Owned Energy in ColoradoAs Colorado emerges as a leader economically and in the energy sector, it is important to look at what we are doing here as a state to reduce our carbon footprint and establish a sustainable path forward as a community.Continue Reading -
Equality for AllCriminal Justice ReformThe Colorado Division of Criminal Justice estimates that more than 20,000 Coloradans are currently locked-up in the state's prisons and that number is expected to jump to more than 27,000 by 2025. A large part of that growth will beContinue Reading
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Save the EarthColorado Green New DealWith only 11 years left to implement the urgent and unprecedented recommendations the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) declared were necessary to keep global temperature increases between 1.5C and 2C, it’s time to shift course and implement aContinue Reading
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Colorado Over CorporationsHousing as a Human RightWhen we talk about legislating housing a human right, many wonder what that exactly means and how would would our campaign approach this meaningfully..Housing as a human right means that our access and our guarantee to having a home comesContinue Reading
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Colorado Over CorporationsRobin Hood TaxesCurrently in Colorado, we have a flat-income tax rate of 4.6%. As a result, a Colorado billionaire like Philip Anschutz, whose investments in oil, railroads, telecom, real-estate, and entertainment have allowed him to earn 50,000 times that of an averageContinue Reading
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Colorado Over CorporationsCap CEO Pay & Raise Workers' WagesDuring the past three decades, compensation for CEOs grew 127 times faster than it did for workers. Since 1950, the CEO-to-worker pay ratio has increased 1,000 percent. That is not a typo, but instead it is a bleak snapshot ofContinue Reading
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Colorado Over CorporationsRepeal TABOR & Tax the 1%The white whale of Colorado Democratic politics for the past 3 decades has been the Taxpayer Bill of Rights ("TABOR") with many campaigns throughout the years promising a full repeal of TABOR, but either falling short or backing out entirely.Continue Reading
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Equality for AllImmigration JusticeAny conversation on immigration needs to begin by recognizing two historical truths that are often left out of the discussion. 1) U.S. immigration courts, ICE and Border Patrol agents, and the state and federal governments that have appointed themselves toContinue Reading
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Free Contraceptives and Reproductive Healthcare
Key components of the Contraceptive Equity Act include: Cover the cost of every service at Planned Parenthood and make their clinics absolutely free to everyone who needs themEliminate all co-payments for birth control.Cover the cost for contraceptives at institutions such …
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Tax on Carbon
Our Carbon Tax relies on the notion that if you are a corporation or an oil and gas company and your business is polluting to everyone's else detriment, you should have to pay for it.
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Ban on Fracking
Scientists have confirmed that fracking is extremely damaging to our local and global environment due to it's growing amount of leaks and spills, regularly occurring fatal explosions, but also the significant increase in methane that comes with fracking which has …
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5-Year Renewable Cap on Prison Sentences
We need to put a cap on prison sentences with the option of renewing or lengthily a sentence if necessary. Colorado wouldn't be the first to do this and follow in the foot steps of Norway who has incarceration rate …
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Criminal Justice Reform
The Colorado Division of Criminal Justice estimates that more than 20,000 people are currently locked-up in the state's prisons and that number will jump to 27,770 by 2025. We plan to cut that by over 50% and end a system …
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Colorado Green New Deal
With only 11 years left to implement the urgent and unprecedented recommendations the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) declared were necessary to keep global temperature increases between 1.5C and 2C, it’s time to shift course and implement a …
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Immigration Justice
Any conversation on immigration needs to begin by recognizing two historical truths that are often left out of the discussion. 1) U.S. immigration courts, ICE and Border Patrol agents, and the state and federal governments that have appointed themselves to …
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Women’s Rights
John Kelly firmly believes that we need commit as a society to ending all forms of gender discrimination within our culture and within our laws to ensure that that all women deserve equal access to workplace safety, equal pay, paid …
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Right to Higher-Education
One of the most overlooked sources of inequality in Colorado is how little we invest in higher education. CU Boulder, the biggest university in our state as well as the 2nd biggest employer, received only 4.5% of it's budget from …
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The Case for Publicly Owned Energy in Colorado
As Colorado emerges as a leader economically and in the energy sector, it is important to look at what we are doing here as a state to reduce our carbon footprint and establish a sustainable path forward as a community. …
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