Primary Election Date: 08/31/2006
General Election Date: 08/31/2006

Who Am I?

University of MI undergrad, Law school at Boston University, was a Denver public defender won an award for being the best pro-bono lawyer in the city, have been in the legislature for 14 years. Currently I'm the majority leader in the CO Senate and I was the minority leader of the house.

Why Am I Running?

I'm running to increase voter participation, ensure fairness and transparency in all elections and get special interest PAC money out of politics.

Hold Me Accountable!

Ensuring we have fair and open elections. Getting the influence of special interest PAC money out of government. Increasing voter turnout.

My DFA values:

I was a Denver Public Defender. I won an award for being the Best Pro Bono attorney in Denver. I have a legislative record of protecting the environment, funding education, protecting worker's rights. We always balance our budget in Colorado and I walked the entire state to help promote a referendum to get an additional four billion dollars into education and health care to prevents dangerous cuts.

My Campaign is People-Powered!

I've currently got an email list of over 60,000 people from all over my state and I have hundreds of volunteers. This past month I raised $72,000 from over 1,500 small contributions.