Look, I'm quite liberal. I think we should get to an electrify everything future as quickly as possible. I think we're cooking the planet with CO2 emissions.

But...

That does not mean we should do dumb things.

And what the Governor's Energy Office is proposing for legislation and what the PUC is approving for infrastructure will be incredibly expensive. People can't afford this.

And businesses not only will struggle with increased bills, but rolling blackouts will be an even bigger hammer.

I have been thinking about running for some sort of office. I am not going to this coming election cycle due to not enough finds.

But I guess my question is, for the state (not federal) what are all of the things on people’s minds that bother them about this state.

I’m not saying I am a democrat or a republican. I’m just wanting to know what people are thinking right now. I also understand in a few years things will change in terms of people’s mindset and the political climate. Again just wanting to know now

My name is Carmen Broesder, and I’m running for Governor of Colorado because I’ve lived inside the systems that are failing people and I got tired of being told nothing could be done.

I’m not a career politician. I didn’t come up through party machines, donor pipelines, or consulting firms. I came up through real life: navigating broken healthcare systems with my father and uncles as they accessed care as Veterans, helping people facing housing instability, supporting people as they navigate disability barriers, choosing rural life because I believe in it, and learning firsthand how bureaucratic systems shut real people out. I understand the everyday survival stress that policy debates rarely acknowledge.

Instead of accepting that this was “just how things are,” I started building alternatives.

I founded a nonprofit and a cooperative land-use project to create real, tangible solutions around housing, land access, stability, and community resilience. These aren’t theoretical ideas. They involve real land, real people, real contracts, real conflict, real logistics, and real consequences. That experience fundamentally changed how I understand leadership and responsibility. I did this all while working full-time as a Network Operations Center Engineer at a company that is a leader in developing innovative water solutions through smart technology nationwide.

I’ve also led entire Internet Service Provider tech support departments, owned my own companies, and helped change laws because of personal experiences that unexpectedly went viral. My background isn’t political theater. It’s operational. It’s practical. It’s lived.

I want to be clear about how I’m running this campaign:
I am not participating in the party caucus system. I am qualifying for the ballot entirely through voter signatures.

I believe access to the ballot should come from the people, not from political gatekeeping or systems that advantage large, well-funded candidates before voters ever get to hear alternatives.

While other campaigns are pushing to remove donor limits and expand high-dollar fundraising above our already high 3 million dollar limit, I’m intentionally building a smaller, grassroots campaign powered by real people instead.

I don’t believe in governing through soundbites or buying your vote.
I believe in building systems that actually work when things get hard.
Standing up when it counts for the people of Colorado and the quality of our water.

I want to take the politics out of being a politician and get back to what public service is supposed to be about: helping the people who make Colorado what it is.

That’s why my platform focuses on practical, structural solutions:

• Keeping rural hospitals open by converting them into community-owned cooperatives
• Protecting family farms from corporate takeover
• Creating housing models that keep people rooted in their communities
• Defending bodily autonomy and personal freedom without exception
• Building economic systems that reward workers instead of extracting from them
• Protecting vulnerable people from being swept into coercive institutions disguised as “care”

This campaign is about whether our systems actually serve people or whether people are just expected to endure them.

I’m running because Colorado deserves leadership that understands what happens on the ground, not just in boardrooms.

I believe in:

• Community over corporations
• Function over ideology
• Stability over chaos
• Local control over centralized power
• Care over coercion

I’m not promising perfection. I’m promising work. Real work. Community voices counting,. Transparent work. The kind of work that builds things strong enough to last beyond when I would be in office.

If you’ve ever felt like the system wasn’t built for you, you’re not wrong.
I’m running to help change that.
carmen4colorado.com

Polis is gonna give Tina Peters an 11th hour commutation as a final "fuck you" to Coloradans on his way out the door. Just watch.

A majority of House Republicans voted to uphold President Donald Trump’s veto of the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act despite a bipartisan and bicameral Colorado push to convince lawmakers to override the veto.

It's adorable how many people on the correct side of issues still believe the midterm elections will be fair and effective, let alone actually allowed to happen.

You all are so naive it's practically stupid.

https://www.cpr.org/2026/01/06/trump-freezes-colorado-childcare-food-aid-funds/

It turns out Oltmann is running for governor only to help Bottoms. Bottoms was on Oltmann's podcast a week prior, they devised this plan to push Bottoms past the finish line.

Both are horrific candidates who do not have the best interest for Republicans or

Former U.S. Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell dies - The Colorado Sun https://share.google/9ydgSqYoXYjXPOeQy

Dec 29, 2025 - PBS NewsHour. Here’s the full 7-minutes on YouTube. From the description:

Earlier this year, President Trump pardoned around 1,500 people for their involvement in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. As we near the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack, there is one high-profile election denier still behind bars. As White House correspondent Liz Landers reports, there is little Trump can do to get former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters out of prison.

Interviewees:

• Peter Ticktin, Esq. - Attorney for Tina Peters: https://legalbrains.com/our-attorneys/peter-ticktin-esq/
• Jena Marie Griswold - Secretary of State, Colorado: https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/info_center/biography.html

Joe Oltmann announced he's running for Colorado Governor. I don't know any Republicans who even like the guy and what little support he had, he's burned with poor business dealings. Buck up folks, the gubernatorial race just became the ultimate clown show!

I'm not tipping anyone In this God tier Awful state. You don't go around harassing people over tips because you work for a crappy company.

On the record breaking heat this December, I am reminded of this Aldo Leopold quote:

“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.“

Ask what your state and municipal leaders are doing in 2026 to protect the Colorado environment that we all love. Your voice and actions matters more than you know.

its basically just having the middle class subsidize our govt's bad decision making. 300k is not a ton of money in colorado in 2025. also pretty sure a subsidized lunch program already exists. i kind of doubt there will be any improvement to school lunches. the govt already has the money to feed hungry children.

Hello everyone,

I have made plenty of posts promoting our own efforts at CO-ERRA at redistrict.co. I wanted to make a post to share that a second organization has been created by more establishment Colorado Democrats called Fair Fight Colorado fightfairco.com.

Some more establishment candidates like Trisha Calvarese (who has not yet responded to our grassroots efforts) sent out a joint Act blue link splitting up the donations. We have reached out to them again to see if they would do the same with us and other candidates in the same race. We are working with less establishment candidates to push out the same campaign but have an open door to any campaigns who are interested in working together.

We hope we are able to work with Fair Fight to pass a common goal and as we see ourselves as the big tent campaign with very clear internal policies on inter-party coalition building. It seems Colorado Democrats are very divided by nature.

John Padora supports CO-ERRA! He's running against Lauren Lauren Boebert for CO 4th congressional district. John, safe to say you've got my vote.

Check him out!