I grew up identifying as a Democrat because I was against foreign wars, pro free speech, and against government-enforced cultural norms. I turned 18 in 2008 and cast my first vote for Barack Obama, persuaded by his campaign promises: End the wars, bring healthcare costs down, rein in warrantless surveillance. I thought those were the right promises then, and I still do now. Those promises were broken; Republicans have done no better with theirs. The practice of breaking promises has not changed over the years, and neither have my values. So I'm running for the office where a legislator actually can keep promises small enough to check: the state House. Our institutions have lost public trust, either because they authorized the discord and division that we see today or they were powerless to prevent it. Confidence in self-governance isn't restored by speeches. It's restored by results. A state representative's job is narrower than national politics likes to admit. We don't decide federal policy from the Colorado House. What we do decide is how transportation dollars get spent, whether police can take property from people they haven't convicted, whether Colorado Guard members get sent overseas without Congress voting on it, and whether voters have a say in housing decisions made for their communities. I'm running because those questions deserve someone who will answer them honestly, without igniting further division through government control. I've spent years reading Colorado legislation closely, and here's the pattern: the parts that matter are buried. Bills frequently get titles that don't describe what they do. They contain provisions nobody asked for, added after the hearings. When residents show up to testify, they're pushing back on things they were never told about. That's not an accident of a busy legislature. It's a routine. That only changes if we have representatives setting a new precedent.
Housing prices are a weight on every homeowner and every renter: when rent climbs, every price in the neighborhood follows, and wages chase it but never quite catch up. Now your electric bill is climbing too, with a fight already underway over whether your household will bankroll the grid buildout for data centers, growth that should pay its own way. The rules got rewritten from the Capitol and from city hall, and the results tell you who they were written for: caps for homeowners, carve-outs for the biggest projects. I'll vote for rules a regular person can use and bills a regular family can afford, and I'll read the fine print out loud.
The standard here is simple. When a tax is sold for roads, the money goes to roads. When the state wants your property, it convicts you first. When cameras and drones track where you go, there are warrants, limits, audits, and real security, or they don't run at all. Your money, your property, your privacy: one standard. The fine print should match the sales pitch, and I'm the one who reads it.
The people who serve: no Colorado Guard member sent to war unless Congress does its constitutional duty and declares one. The place: forests thinned before they burn, trails and creeks maintained, wildlife decisions made with the people who live with the consequences, not for them. The neighborhoods: police resourced to solve crimes, not to build databases on people suspected of nothing. That's not how it works today. It's how it should, and it's how I'll vote. None of it is glamorous. It's maintenance, and maintenance is the job.
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