He is seeking to fill the House District 4 seat in northwest Denver left vacant by Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez, a Democrat newly elected to the Denver City Council
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He’s since stayed active in education-based politics, including joining high school students’ protests at the Colorado Capitol this year to demand a response to gun violence. Hernández told the Post that education, housing and gun violence prevention would be among his top priorities should he be appointed to the state House. He grounded those priorities in his own upbringing and in what he saw among his own students.
He would advocate for more school funding and teachers’ rights, while “limiting the privatization of schools and building a base for strong public education,” Hernández said. He described himself as a progressive and, if sent to the Capitol, he intends to wade into the debates that created rifts among Democratic lawmakers this past year.
All of those were pieces of progressive housing policy this past year, and none became law over disagreements among Democrats over the policies’ utility in addressing the housing crisis. Hernández said he generally supported Gov. Jared Polis’ plan to solve the crisis via increased development and zoning reform.
“It’s having a lot of humanizing conversations, tackling our housing crisis from a renter’s side,” he said. “I’ll always be on the side of poor people.”
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