As the largest minority group in Colorado, Latinos voters are not to be messed with this election season.
With Hispanic people making up over 20 percent of the state's population, the Democratic Latino voting bloc has emerged as a political force to be reckoned with.— which encompasses much of the firmly republican Weld County but also contains the highest concentration of Hispanic residents out of any of the state's other congressional districts — Democratic and Latina candidate Yadira Caraveo recently defeated Republican Barbara Kirkmeyer in a highly competitive election.
"Support for protecting reproductive health and abortion rights outnumbers support for banning abortion by a margin of 3 to 1," the report states."Nearly two-thirds of respondents say they are more likely to vote for a candidate who supports the expansion of abortion and reproductive health access; and 58% said the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade makes it more likely they will vote in the November midterms.
On March 20, the crowd marched to the State Capitol to meet with Governor Jared Polis and other state lawmakers to advocate for their policy priorities. They called for support of House Bill 1115, which would repeal the statewide ban on rent control, and Senate Bill 190, which would prohibit the use of deceptive advertising by anti-abortion centers intending to intercept patients seeking abortion care.
"Say you and I are sharing drugs, and I buy [our] drugs this week and you buy [our] drugs next week, and we go back and forth like that, and you give me some drugs and I overdose and die — you could then [face] 32 years in prison," Gonzales explains.
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