Moderate Colorado Democrat Noel Ginsburg is running for governor.
This week, Denver businessman Noel Ginsburg became the fourth big name to launch a Democratic campaign for Colorado governor.
The CEO of Intertech Plastics and nonprofit founder who brought Hillary Clinton to tour his Denver headquarters in 2014, kicked off his bid at the Riverwalk in downtown Pueblo on Friday. He chose the southern Colorado city, he said, to show his commitment to the state’s non-major-metro areas. Pueblo, a heavily Hispanic blue-collar union town, lost its longtime Democratic stronghold status last year when Donald Trump won the county.
Ginsburg is so far the only high-profile candidate in the Democratic primary who hasn’t previously held public office. “For me, running for governor is not the fulfillment of a lifelong dream,” he told a small crowd. Rather, he said, he hopes his legacy will be to leave the world better than he found it.
The entrance of this non-politician follows that of former former state Sen. Mike Johnston, Congressman Ed Perlmutter, and former State Treasurer Cary Kennedy. Three other Democrats, Adam Garrity, Moses Humes, and Michael Schroeder, have also filed paperwork to run for governor. The race is shaping up to be an energetic Democratic primary — something Colorado has not seen in many years.
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