Joe’s not asking for some extremist idea, he’s demanding that our Colorado leaders bring the same rules to Washington that their voters require at home.

We’re not perfect, but Independent Coloradans have a long history of doing the right thing here at home. Since 1876, we required balanced budgets, then age limits in 1966, term limits in 1998, criminalized profiting off of public office in 2002, and in 2006, we started to get money out of politics.

Joe believes in defending the working class from exploitation, balancing the budget, eliminating rigged loopholes, and upholding human rights and constitutional protections without exception.

Voting for an Independent is a protest against the two parties that continually refuse to do what the voters demand.

Q: I like what you’re saying but be straight with me, are you Right or Left?

My priorities are nonpartisan and I am anti-authoritarian. I believe in Libertarian ideals that the government should be afraid of its people, it does not belong in your bedroom, gun-safe, or doctor’s office, and the free-market builds innovation. I believe in Right ideals that we should have a balanced budget, personal responsibility, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion. And I believe in Left ideals that healthcare is a human right and this oligarchy that we’re living in is caused by unregulated crony capitalism.

Q: What will you do differently?

First 90 days we drop these ten bills that will fix the broken system and are supported by 80% of Americans. Then, with your help, we regularly and publicly blame and shame the congress members who oppose them until they listen to the American people. It took us 250 years to get to this and anyone telling you that they’re going to fix it in 90 days is lying. Read my full 6-year plan here.

Q: Who are you?

I live in Lakewood with my partner and our two huskies. My dad was a Ford factory worker and my mom raised 6 kids. I graduated from the University of Michigan (Go Blue) in ’11 with a B.E. in Computer Science and I have been a VP of Engineering for a $1B software company for over 10 years. I enjoy hiking, traveling, and getting a beer with my friends and family. While I love the Broncos, the Detroit Lions will always have that special place in my heart.

What about your opponents?

Both the Democrats and Republicans have totally abandoned the working class because they are owned by corporations. It’s not enough to claim that you are for the people, you have to show it by raising wages, and not letting individuals fend for themselves against social media, AI, and healthcare companies.

When these two parties start respecting their voters, we’ll consider having some respect for them.

Tim Bennett (R)

Republican leaders have lost touch with reality. They told us for decades they want small government, more freedoms, and a balanced budget. But consistently, they explode our debt with endless wars and tax loopholes for their rich friends while eroding our Constitutional protections and giving a threatening amount of power to the Presidency. We should believe what they do and not what they say.

Brittany Pettersen (D)

A career politician since 2013, she is the corporate and Israel-funded, hand-picked, establishment choice. A vote for this incumbent is the same as a vote for Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, and their decades-long losing strategy of writing empty promises in strongly worded letters. If you want to know why your property insurance rates are so high, just follow the money.

We’ve been told not to run…

You can’t split the vote…
You’ll make powerful enemies…
You can’t run against a woman…
You have to play it safe this year…

Colorado party leaders told us all of these things and for 50 years, the establishment politicians told us to play it safe because they were “better than the other side.” 
We’ve been playing it safe but wages don’t increase, cost of living skyrockets, we beg for regulation on Social Media and AI but are left to fend for ourselves against billion-dollar corporations.  At some point you have to look in the mirror and realize that maybe the problem isn’t just “the other side.”

Democrats Play-it-Safe Playbook

The 90s saw the rise of the Clintons and their neoliberal abandonment of the working class. Then in 2009 they bailed out Wall Street instead of Main Street. 2015, the party establishment rigged the game against Bernie Sanders to force another Clinton era. In 2016, leadership doubled down on their losing strategy, completely abandoning rural voters to chase wealthy suburbanites instead. By 2020, they went right back to the status quo with do-nothing politics. Fast forward to 2024 and primary votes didn’t even matter; everyone was just told to fall in line behind Kamala Harris. Now in 2026, they are still running the exact same old, play-it-safe playbook.

Republicans Two-Santa-Clauses Playbook

The 80s kicked off this hypocrisy with the promise of prosperity while shipping American manufacturing jobs overseas. Then in the 2000s, they dragged the country into endless, trillion-dollar Middle Eastern conflicts under the guise of freedom, while passing the Patriot Act to gut basic civil liberties at home. By the time they took the White House again, the populist rhetoric about helping the forgotten working class evaporated instantly, replaced by massive corporate deregulation and a Supreme Court stack designed to strip away established personal freedoms. Now, they completely control the narrative with culture wars to distract from the fact that their economic engine only runs for the top one percent.