#Jared Polis

[reasonsforhope]

"A trio of health care bills enshrining access in Colorado to abortion and gender-affirming procedures and medications became law Friday [April 14th] as the Democrat-led state tries to make itself a safe haven for its neighbors, whose Republican leaders are restricting care.

The main goal of the legislation signed by Democratic Gov. Jared Polis is to ensure people in surrounding states and beyond can go to Colorado to have an abortion, begin puberty blockers or receive gender-affirming surgery without fear of prosecution. Bordering states of Wyoming and Oklahoma have passed abortion bans, and Utah has severely restricted transgender care for minors...

The governor’s office was packed with lawmakers, advocates and health care providers, many of them women, for a ceremony with a celebratory feel that resembled a rally at times with loud applause and call-and-response chants.

“We see you and in Colorado, we’ve got your back,” Democratic state Sen. Julie Gonzales said during the ceremony.

With the new laws, Colorado joins Illinois as a progressive peninsula offering reproductive rights to residents of conservative states on three sides. Illinois abortion clinics now serve people living in a 1,800-mile (2,900-kilometer) stretch of 11 Southern states that have largely banned abortion...

Colorado’s southern neighbor, New Mexico, is also controlled by Democrats and signed a similar abortion protection bill earlier this year. It legally shields those who seek abortions or gender-affirming care, and those who provide the treatments, from interstate investigations...

Polis added the first layer of abortion protection a year ago, signing an executive order that bars state agencies from cooperating with out-of-state investigations regarding reproductive healthcare. One of the bills he signed Friday codifies that order into law. Like the New Mexico law, it blocks court summons, subpoenas and search warrants from states that decide to prosecute someone for having an abortion.

Colorado’s abortion law extends the protections to transgender patients dodging restrictions in their own states. Gender-affirming health care has been available for decades, but some states have recently barred minors from accessing it, even with parental consent. Hospitals in some of those states say gender-affirming surgeries are rarely recommended for minors anyway. Puberty blockers are more common.

Also on Friday, Polis signed a measure that outlaws “deceptive practices” by anti-abortion centers, which are known to market themselves as abortion clinics but don’t actually offer the procedure. Instead, they attempt to convince patients to not terminate their pregnancies. The bill also prohibits sites from offering what’s called an abortion pill reversal — and unproven practice to reverse a medical abortion...

A third bill signed Friday requires large employers to offer coverage for the total cost of an abortion, with an exception for those who object on religious grounds. It exempts public employees because Colorado’s constitution forbids the use of public funds for abortions."

-via AP News, 4/14/23

#colorado #new mexico #abortion #abortion access #pro choice #gender affirming care #gender affirming surgery #puberty blockers #illinois #united states #us politics #reproductive rights #safe haven #jared polis #democrats #good news #hope

[profeminist]

"Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday signed a set of health care bills enshrining access to abortion and gender-affirming procedures and medications, as the Democrat-led state tries to make itself a safe haven for its neighbors, whose Republican leaders are restricting care.

The goal of the legislation is to ensure people in surrounding states and beyond can go to Colorado to have an abortion, begin puberty blockers or receive gender-affirming surgery without fear of prosecution. Bordering states of Wyoming and Oklahoma have passed abortion bans and Utah has severely restricted transgender care for minors."

Read the full piece here: https://apnews.com/article/abortion-transgender-colorado-law-0ac4525f076692b479c9c16f3a1f72b3

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#abortion #feminism #feminist #abortion rights #trans #trans rights #reproductive rights #reproductive freedom #colorado #jared polis #news #politics #u.s.

[wehadourownsecretclub]

SEE YOU IN DENVER TAYLOR 💛

#taylurking #taylor swift #ts #tswift #Denver eras tour #swifties #Denver swifties #Jared polis #Denver

[politicaldilfs]

Colorada Governor DILFs

Last 12 governors of Colorado. Hot DILFs!

#Jared Polis #John Hickenlooper #Bill Ritter #Bill Owens #Roy Romer #Richard Lamm #John Vanderhoof #John Arthur Love #Edwin C. Johnson #Daniel I.J. Thornton #Walter Walford Johnson

[phoenixisnthere]

You can’t tell me the Denver Post didn’t do this on purpose

#people deserve free shelter #put people in the homes we have instead of building more to stand empty #quit fucking destroying ecosystems for more useless buildings!!! #Denver post #news #Denver news #Colorado #Colorado news #Jared polis #housing crisis #my post

[nodynasty4us]

From the February 7, 2024 write-up:

The partisan, cross-border swipes during the late January speech may say more about American politics in 2028 than in 2024. Many of the country’s highest-profile state executives — several talked up as likely presidential contenders in four years — are using their agenda-setting annual speeches to land blows on their counterparts in far off state capitals.

In an era where even viewership of the presidential State of the Union is declining, only the most civic-minded of voters pays any heed to governors’ State of the State addresses. But they provide a critical window into the country’s biggest policy debates — and increasingly offer evidence of its toxic, partisan political culture. States have always engaged in spirited economic and political rivalries, but increasingly, their chief executives sound like combatants from warring factions.

#governors #2028 #gretchen whitmer #gavin newsom #ron desantis #kristi noem #greg abbott #jb pritzker #jared polis

[rockshrimp1989]

This video/proclamation will always bring happy tears to my eyes!😭🤩

#matt stone #trey parker #south park #jared polis #south park concert #south park 25 #Youtube

[fangirlsuperhero]

I don’t go here but my governor is such a fangirl I love it

#jared polis #taylor swift #adorable #for my swiftie mutuals

[gwydionmisha]

#Colorado #Gun Reform #Mass Shootings #Jared Polis #News

[kp777]

#colorado #2022 elections #jared polis #michael bennet

[objectivistnerd]

Jared Polis was first elected Colorado Governor in 2018, after serving five terms representing Colorado's 2nd district in Congress, where he was the only Democratic member of the Liberty Caucus. Since 2018, Polis has remained highly popular in Colorado, with polices like universal kindergarten and early loosening of COVID-19 restrictions receiving particular support among constituents. Polis has also voiced strong support for lessening or entirely removing the state's income tax, telling one audience in 2021 that the Colorado state income tax "should be zero."

While Colorado was once considered a solid swing state, Polis' continued success as governor, as well as the state's other electoral outcomes, have entrenched the state's Democratic leanings. However, Polis' popularity shows that Democrats can receive solid victories without relying on the increasing technocratic impulses of the party as a whole. While other Democrats—and increasingly Republicans as well—turn to government to solve problems, Polis has found success by wanting to reduce government power.

"The fact is we did something simple," Polis said during his victory speech on Tuesday night. "We focused on issues that really affect people's lives and we delivered real results. We focused on lowering costs and more freedom. We led with rational data-driven COVID policies that supported personal freedom and responsibility and resulted in Colorado having the ninth-lowest COVID death rate in the entire nation."

#jared polis

[incapableandmorallygrey]

met the governor of colorado’s husband the other day. sometimes gay people are just boring and that’s okay.

#colorado #gay #jared polis

[thenewdemocratus]

NORML: U.S. Congress: Legislation Introduced To Get The Feds Out of The Marijuana Enforcement Business

Source:NORML Representative Jared Polis has been against the War on Drugs and in favor of marijuana legalization as long as I’ve known of him and I believe he was elected to the House in 2007. And has worked with Ethan Nadelman and other anti-drug war groups in Colorado the state he represents and other places. So Representative Polis is not a Johnny-come-lately to marijuana legalization. Someone…

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#114th Congress #2015 #America #American Drug War #Cannabis #Center Right #Classical Liberalism #Classical Liberals #Colorado #Controlled Substance Act #Democratic Party #Drug War #Earl Blumenauer #House Democrats #Jared Polis #Liberalism #Liberals #Marijuana #Marijuana Legalization #Pot #U.S. Congress #U.S. Government #U.S. House of Representatives #United States #Washington #Washington DC

[nodynasty4us]

From the December 13, 2022 column:

Trump is confronting the grimmest of eventualities — indictment. That could derail his candidacy, whether because of the charges themselves or merely because they tank his standing in the polls and he uses prosecution to claim persecution and saves face by bowing out to avoid defeat.

So his one-time allies are unwilling to edge onto the limb of his candidacy. That’s partly because they suspect he entered the race so soon to dare the authorities to prosecute an announced candidate and in part because they’d rather hold back to see if those charges come, how serious they are and whether he goes through with a campaign.

...

If stopping Trump’s comeback and preserving democracy is the raison d’etre of Biden’s reelection, what’s the current president’s rationale if, by the start of 2024, it’s clear the former president isn’t a viable contender?

#donald trump #joe biden #2024 #ted cruz #cory booker #gina raimondo #roy cooper #gretchen whitmer #wes moore #josh shapiro #gavin newsom #jared polis #j. b. pritzker #phil murphy

[rockshrimp1989]

The amount of money I would pay to see this!💰💰😄🤩

#matt stone #trey parker #jared polis #casa bonita

[pancake-loving-pandemi]

#colorado #finally some good news #pets #jared polis #governor