Mark Baisley was elected to the Colorado House, District 39, in 2018 and the Colorado Senate, District 4, in 2022. He ran in the Republican primary for Senate District 30 in 2006. The Colorado Senate Republicans' biography says he is president of Slipglass Inc., an engineering software firm, chaired the Douglas County Republican Party, was vice chairman of the state party and earned a bachelor's degree from Columbia College.
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.
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.
John Hickenlooper is the incumbent, elected to this United States Senate seat in 2020. He was Mayor of Denver from 2003 to 2011 and was elected Governor of Colorado in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. He ran for the Democratic nomination for President in 2020. His Senate office biography says he was a geologist and opened the state's first brewpub. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Wesleyan University.
Bob Chew's campaign website says he founded an engineering and technical services company in 1996, sold it to its employees, and stepped down as chief executive in 2022 while remaining board chair. It says he served five years on active duty aboard a Navy nuclear attack submarine, later became a Navy Reserve intelligence officer, and holds a chemical engineering degree from Case Western Reserve University.
Commissioned a Navy ensign; five years on active duty as a division officer aboard a nuclear attack submarine
Christopher Baum ran for the United States House, District 8, in 2024 and for the Colorado House, District 34, in 2022. The Approval Voting Party's biography says he served 20 years in the United States Navy, owned an interior decorating shop, worked as a network administrator for the New Mexico Bar Association, and holds a master's degree in government administration from the University of Pennsylvania.
Blake Huber ran for Colorado Secretary of State in 2018 and for Vice President on the Approval Voting Party ticket in 2016. The Libertarian Party of Colorado's biography says he also ran for President on that ticket in 2020 and 2024, served as a state chair of the Libertarian Party and a member of its national committee, and spent more than 30 years in management.
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Ran for President on the Approval Voting Party ticket
Adam Withrow ran for the United States House, District 3, in 2024. His campaign website says he has worked as a ranch hand, a certified nursing assistant, a cook, a contractor and a detention officer, and that he studied philosophy, psychology and history in college and left before finishing.
