I was unable to place myself on the Democratic Primary Ballot, and so will endorse Manny Rutinel to represent us in District 8. He is thoughtful, ethical, and I am confident he will represent us with integrity.
I would like to thank everyone who supported my effort at reforming our at risk democratic process. Each of us has a role to play, and that starts with holding all of our Representatives to account.
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It's my hope that Manny works for meaningful, transparent and accountable electoral reform, judicial reform, and campaign finance reform.
Money is not free speech, and Politics is not for profit. Congress is full of Lawyers and Lawyers use the Law as currency. Without Campaign Finance Reform and strict prohibitions against personal enrichment nothing will change.
Let's see what our Colorado Representatives are worth in 2 years
Keep in mind that members of Congress often bypass reporting stock trades by exploiting lax enforcement of the STOCK Act, filing late reports, or failing to disclose trades entirely with minimal consequence. While the 2012 law requires disclosure within 45 days, penalties for violations are typically just a nominal $200 fee, which fails to deter potential, often profitable, non-compliance.
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Manny Rutinel D $156,000
Shannon Bird D NO DISCLOSURES
Gabe Evans R $434,000 (2024)
Lauren Boebert R NO DISCLOSURES $41,000,000 est.
Jason Crow D $330,000 to $4,000,000 est.
Jeff Hurd R $16,700,000
- Has sold 12.4 million of EQH stock since 2021
- This has been described as Insider Trading
- Hurd joined Congress in 2015
Brittany Petterson D $855,000 (2024)
Joe Neguse D
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Jeff Crank R $2,350,000
Diana DeGette D NO DISCLOSURES $3,900,000
​Michael Bennet $18,300,000
John Hickenlooper $31,290,000
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Iran
Trump is feeding his narcissism with the decadence of war.
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Extreme narcissism, often manifesting as Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) or malignant narcissism, involves deep-seated grandiosity, intense vanity, lack of empathy, and exploitative behavior. These individuals demand constant admiration, feel superior, and may react with rage or manipulation when challenged. Malignant narcissism is the most severe form, combining NPD with paranoia and sadism.
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Donald Trump needs to be expeditiously removed from office.
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The K-Shaped Economy
The wealth and spending gap continues to widen while the stock market reaches new highs. Lower-income households are forced to cope with an increasing proportion of problems caused by persistent inflation, rising debt, and tighter credit. Trump lies. Every day. Why would he care?
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Energy Independence
Energy Independence is ending our dependence on oil.
It's about separating consumption from a dependence on energy grids and global supply chains.
it's about combining Nuclear with Renewables.
It's about maintaining America's technological leadership in Energy generation and consumption.
We'll still need fertilizer, ethylene, propylene, and natural gas, but Oil is old technology. It is literally the Devil's Drink, causing corruption, both internationally and in Congress, environmental damage and weather systems disruption, health problems, and capital misallocation.
Renewables and Nuclear will lower energy costs and create good high paying jobs. It just makes sense. When we heal the planet we heal ourselves. America will be stronger for it.
"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. Whether it is obscuring state language or the faux-language of mindless media; ...whether it is the malign language of law-without-ethics, or language designed for the estrangement of minorities, hiding its racist plunder in its literary cheek – it must be rejected, altered and exposed. It is the language that drinks blood, laps vulnerabilities, tucks its fascist boots under crinolines of respectability and patriotism as it moves relentlessly toward the bottom line and the bottomed-out mind. Sexist language, racist language, theistic language – all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas."
​Toni Morrison's Nobel lecture, as the first African-American writer to receive the prize, in 1993. She died on August 5th 2019.