I have a new State Senator. This past weekend a vacancy committee appointed Lucia Guzman to fill a vacancy for Colorado’s 34th senatorial district, which is also my home district. My former State Senator Paula Sandoval resigned her seat after winning a recent special election to the Denver City Council after my former City Councilman Rick Garcia accepted an appointment as HUD Regional Director. Guzman was already running for the State Senate in an open-seat election this November. She will continue to run, however now as an incumbent.
Guzman is an ordained minister and former member of the Denver Public Schools Board of Education.
Colorado is one of only three states, along with Massachusetts and Wisconsin, with openly LGBT elected officials at the municipal, county, state and federal levels. Colorado’s Congressman Jared Polis is the first openly gay man to be elected to Congress.