Climate.
Climate.
Community.
Community.
Accountability.
Accountability.
Priorities
A Climate Resilient City
The climate crisis touches every area of life and policy, but its worst harms can be mitigated. This crisis has been created by polluters profiting at the expense of our air, our water, our land, and our people. It's going to take bold fighters at every level of government willing to muster community, economic, and political will power to take on oil and gas profiteers, AI and hyperscale data center billionaires, and a corrupt business and political establishment.
We need Green New Deal policies for Denver, and if we don't get this right, we will continue to pay increased utility prices, we will face exacerbated housing shortages in worsening living conditions, we will pay more for food, we will run out of water, and we will be faced with ever-worsening air quality, deadly heat waves, wind storms that knock out the power, and more. We deserve a city leader that fights for environmental justice and secures us a livable future.
Priorities
A City Made for Our Communities
Our city is made up of beautiful and diverse communities that have set down roots at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. Denver has a great tradition of welcoming new people, but recently that welcome has been aimed more towards new profiteers than new people. We need leaders who make policy with community in mind, and with community members in the room. I won't meet with private interests without bringing community members to those meetings.
On city council I will empower Denver communities by advocating for the public services local government should provide, but that are too often under-resourced. I will fight for an affordable city, education funding, housing solutions, strong union contracts and protections, to keep ICE off our streets and to block ICE from any cooperation with the city of Denver, for robust and accessible transit options, for public safety that prioritizes community, and for free and accessible public spaces.
Denver politicians have a habit of letting powerful business interests win. Whether it's exploiting a budget loophole to fund a surveillance contract, a data-center moratorium that doesn't go far enough, or drought restrictions that falsely place the blame on individuals instead of corporations, Denver has an accountability problem. Too often, fines and consequences for breaking city contracts or mistreating Denverites are just a slap on the wrist that can be easily written into corporate budgets. Denver must adopt robust accountability measures that ensure efficient and transparent government, and guardrails that cannot be dismissed as the cost of doing business.