Programs designed to get people the help they need in our jails and prisons should be supported, and Coloradans should know why Jared Polis opposed this at the federal level - and what that means for our system here in the state.
Denver, CO - After our revelation last week that Jared Polis’ business platform included plans to criminalize employment law and send business-owners to prison, (his words) Polis’ campaign responded to questions about it from the Denver Business Journal. Instead of walking back the radical position, Polis’ campaign decided to double down: “Asked about the video, Polis’
DENVER - If Jared Polis is elected governor and gets his way on policy, some business owners will be jailed. Although this might sound hyperbolic, it was a statement made by Polis himself during the primary. Footage of Polis at a candidate forum sponsored by the SEIU, a local Denver-based labor union for service employees
Denver, CO - This week, Compass Colorado released a new television ad which highlights some of the potential real-world consequences of Jared Polis’ premier platform plank, “Medicare for all.” As a sponsor of H.R. 676 "Medicare for all" Polis is directly advocating for the permanent destruction of the private health insurance market which has the
BRIGHTON, CO - Today the Adams County Board of County Commissioners voted 4-1 in favor of a 30-day moratorium on any new oil and gas permit applications within the county. They announced consideration of this measure publicly just yesterday, and rammed it through in the 11th-hour, after over 45% of ballots have already been cast
Denver, CO - Jared Polis has insisted throughout his campaign he opposes Proposition 112, one of the most economically devastating measures on the Colorado ballot in recent history. However, a new endorsement of the measure from Polis-booster Senator Bernie Sanders casts even further doubt on Polis’ assertions. On the heels of a big political week
DENVER - In an interview and subsequent debate questions about a 1999 incident with an employee, Jared Polis paints himself as the victim of a crime who, although regretful of the situation “didn’t do anything wrong.” There were several instances during Polis’ most recent interview with Fox 31’s Joe St. George in which Polis recounts
DENVER - Yesterday, self-proclaimed Democrat Socialist Bernie Sanders came to Colorado to stump for Jared Polis. During each of his three stops across the state, Sanders repeatedly touted Polis’ progressive bona fides. Polis is locked in a tight race for the Governorship, and in an attempt to appeal to the ever-growing block of unaffiliated voters
Denver, CO - One of the most widely covered national news stories is the “caravan" of an estimated more than 7,000 migrants marching toward the United States’ southern border. Regardless of how one feels about issues of legal immigration, illegal immigration, and the best ways to handle each, Jared Polis' history demonstrates a philosophy that
DENVER – Although he was only on the State Board of Education for one term, Jared Polis raised application fees on teachers three times. Just five months into his six-year term, Polis approved his first fee increase and continued to vote routinely to increase fees on new teachers and substitute teachers. A later increase, during Polis’
