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State Senator - District 27

Office
State Senate, District 27
On the ballot
3
Incumbent
Tom Sullivan
The people on the ballot01
Danielle Lammon
Danielle Lammon
Republican

Danielle Lammon's campaign website describes her as a nonprofit founder, author and retired small-business owner living in Aurora. It says she is founder and chief executive of the Aurora Fire Foundation, founder of the Buddy Publishing Foundation and chair of the Spina Bifida Association of Colorado. It lists her as a past president of the Rotary Club of Aurora and a past chair of the Aurora Citizens Budget Committee.

Chair of the Spina Bifida Association of Colorado; past president of the Rotary Club of Aurora
A nonprofit founder, an author and a retired small-business owner
Founder and chief executive of the Aurora Fire Foundation
Lives in Aurora
The money
Danielle For Sd 27
$41,643.00 from 218 contributions, September 6, 2025 to September 16, 2026
Spent $38,971.36 in 48 expenditures
Tom Sullivan
Tom Sullivan Incumbent
Democrat
State Senator

Tom Sullivan is the incumbent in Senate District 27. He was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives, District 37, in 2018 and re-elected in 2020. His campaign website says he won the Senate seat in 2022, was an Air Force KC-135 crew chief from 1974 to 1977, worked nearly 30 years for the Postal Service and served three terms as secretary-treasurer of the American Postal Workers Union's Aurora local.

2022
State senator for District 27
2018, 2020
Elected to the Colorado House of Representatives, District 37, in 2018 and re-elected in 2020
Shop steward and three terms as secretary-treasurer of the American Postal Workers Union's Aurora local
1986
Nearly thirty years with the United States Postal Service
1974-1977
United States Air Force; a crew chief on KC-135 aircraft
Journalism and accounting, Metropolitan State College of Denver, on the GI Bill
CUT rating

The Colorado Union of Taxpayers (CUT) rates how often legislators vote with its positions on taxes, spending, TABOR and other issues, including property rights and parental rights.

CUT rating (2021): 7.0%
CUT rating (2022): 7.9%
CUT rating (2023): 8%
CUT rating (2024): 9%
CUT rating (2025): 16%
CUT rating (2026): 15.9%
Average of listed CUT ratings (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026): 10.6%

The guide gives each listed year equal weight, omits years without a rating and rounds only the final average to one decimal. This is a guide calculation, not a CUT-published lifetime score.

The money
Sullivan For Colorado
$59,457.00 from 254 contributions, January 3, 2025 to September 16, 2026
Spent $15,009.21 in 79 expenditures
Michele Poague
Michele Poague
Libertarian

Michele Poague's candidate page says she has worked at the Bavaria Inn Restaurant since returning to Colorado in 1984 and has published a non-fiction book and five novels. She ran for the Colorado Senate, District 29, in 2012, 2016 and 2020, and for lieutenant governor on the Libertarian ticket in 2018 and 2022. The page says she attended Nettleton Business College and was raised in southwest Denver.

2012, 2016, 2020
Ran for the Colorado Senate, District 29
2018, 2022
Ran for lieutenant governor on the Libertarian ticket
1984
Has worked at the Bavaria Inn Restaurant
2002
Published a non-fiction book, Creating a Successful Convention
High school in South Dakota; Nettleton Business College
Born in Newman Grove, Nebraska; raised in southwest Denver
The money02
Danielle For Sd 27
Danielle Lammon · $41,643.00 from 218 contributions, September 6, 2025 to September 16, 2026 · Spent $38,971.36 in 48 expenditures
Sullivan For Colorado
Tom Sullivan · $59,457.00 from 254 contributions, January 3, 2025 to September 16, 2026 · Spent $15,009.21 in 79 expenditures
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