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Mike Weissman
2025 - Present
2029
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Mike Weissman (Democratic Party) is a member of the Colorado State Senate, representing District 28. He assumed office on January 8, 2025. His current term ends on January 10, 2029.
Weissman (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Colorado State Senate to represent District 28. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Biography
Weissman's professional experience includes advising organizations on how to utilize technology. He has been affiliated with the NAACP Aurora Branch, Colorado Black Women for Political Action, and Food Bank of the Rockies.[1]
Committee assignments
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2023-2024
Weissman was assigned to the following committees:
2021-2022
Weissman was assigned to the following committees:
2019-2020
Weissman was assigned to the following committees:
2017 legislative session
At the beginning of the 2017 legislative session, this legislator served on the following committees:
Colorado committee assignments, 2017 |
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• Judiciary |
• State, Veterans and Military Affairs |
Sponsored legislation
The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.
Elections
2024
See also: Colorado State Senate elections, 2024
General election
General election for Colorado State Senate District 28
Mike Weissman defeated Pedro Espinoza in the general election for Colorado State Senate District 28 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Mike Weissman (D) | 63.5 | 35,064 |
![]() | Pedro Espinoza (R) ![]() | 36.5 | 20,143 |
Total votes: 55,207 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Colorado State Senate District 28
Mike Weissman defeated Idris Keith in the Democratic primary for Colorado State Senate District 28 on June 25, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Mike Weissman | 53.2 | 5,839 |
![]() | Idris Keith ![]() | 46.8 | 5,135 |
Total votes: 10,974 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Colorado State Senate District 28
Pedro Espinoza advanced from the Republican primary for Colorado State Senate District 28 on June 25, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Pedro Espinoza ![]() | 100.0 | 3,398 |
Total votes: 3,398 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Cory Parella (R)
Campaign finance
2022
See also: Colorado House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Colorado House of Representatives District 36
Incumbent Mike Weissman defeated William Walters and Andrew Gibson in the general election for Colorado House of Representatives District 36 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Mike Weissman (D) ![]() | 64.0 | 13,736 |
William Walters (R) | 32.9 | 7,058 | ||
Andrew Gibson (L) | 3.0 | 653 |
Total votes: 21,447 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 36
Incumbent Mike Weissman advanced from the Democratic primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 36 on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Mike Weissman ![]() | 100.0 | 4,620 |
Total votes: 4,620 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 36
William Walters advanced from the Republican primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 36 on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | William Walters | 100.0 | 3,001 |
Total votes: 3,001 | ||||
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Endorsements
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2020
See also: Colorado House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Colorado House of Representatives District 36
Incumbent Mike Weissman defeated Dustin Bishop in the general election for Colorado House of Representatives District 36 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Mike Weissman (D) | 61.2 | 26,687 |
![]() | Dustin Bishop (R) ![]() | 38.8 | 16,935 |
Total votes: 43,622 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 36
Incumbent Mike Weissman advanced from the Democratic primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 36 on June 30, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Mike Weissman | 100.0 | 11,956 |
Total votes: 11,956 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jacque Scott Sr. (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 36
Dustin Bishop advanced from the Republican primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 36 on June 30, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Dustin Bishop ![]() | 100.0 | 5,148 |
Total votes: 5,148 | ||||
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2018
General election
General election for Colorado House of Representatives District 36
Incumbent Mike Weissman defeated Richard Bowman in the general election for Colorado House of Representatives District 36 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Mike Weissman (D) ![]() | 61.0 | 18,994 |
Richard Bowman (R) | 39.0 | 12,140 |
Total votes: 31,134 (100.00% precincts reporting) | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 36
Incumbent Mike Weissman advanced from the Democratic primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 36 on June 26, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Mike Weissman ![]() | 100.0 | 6,248 |
Total votes: 6,248 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 36
Richard Bowman advanced from the Republican primary for Colorado House of Representatives District 36 on June 26, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Richard Bowman | 100.0 | 4,104 |
Total votes: 4,104 | ||||
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Endorsements
Weissman was endorsed by the Aurora Sentinel.[2]
2016
Elections for the Colorado House of Representatives took place in 2016. The primary election took place on June 28, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was April 4, 2016. Incumbent Su Ryden (D) did not seek re-election.
Mike Weissman defeated Richard Bowman in the Colorado House of Representatives District 36 general election.[3][4]
Colorado House of Representatives, District 36 General Election, 2016 | ||||
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Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
Democratic | ![]() |
55.29% | 19,423 | |
Republican | Richard Bowman | 44.71% | 15,708 | |
Total Votes | 35,131 | |||
Source: Colorado Secretary of State |
Mike Weissman ran unopposed in the Colorado House of Representatives District 36 Democratic primary.[5][6]
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Richard Bowman ran unopposed in the Colorado House of Representatives District 36 Republican primary.[5][6]
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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2022
Mike Weissman completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Weissman's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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|The grandson of a doctor, a social worker, a journalist, and a community activist, he has long believed that the purpose of public policy and law is to improve our shared condition.
As the descendent of Jewish immigrants who fled the pogroms and of Irish immigrants who survived the potato famine of the mid 1800s, he seeks to pay forward and work to keep alive the promise of opportunities that our country has long offered to those seeking a new beginning.- Economic Justice - most people work for a living and pay their fair share of taxes. But special interest tax breaks for big companies or very wealthy individuals mean everyone else ends up paying more and it means that our schools are underfunded, our roads are crowded, and the state struggles to deliver other services people want it to deliver. For the last several years I worked to eliminate special interest tax breaks in order to fund housing and education and help people raise their families and if re-elected I intend to keep working to do so.
- Housing - my city, Aurora, was an affordable place to buy a home 10 years ago. But home prices have doubled or even tripled since then and wages certainly have not kept up. Prior to COVID, I passed a new law to create a $50M/year funding source for construction of new affordable housing, by closing a tax loophole in the last two years, the state has invested hundreds of millions of Covid federal relief money into affordable housing to further jumpstart construction of more homes at lower prices. But we must do more. I am particularly interested in pursuing "land trust" models to take the cost of land out of the total cost of housing and alternative construction methods like modular or panelized to lower the lower of housing.
- Individual Rights - This year, in anticipation of the U.S. Supreme Court Dobbs decision, Colorado passed a law to make access to abortion a "fundamental right" in state law. I strongly supported this new law to protect women's rights to autonomy free from government interference in their lives. I will continue to support laws to protect women's rights from attempted interference from laws in other, anti-abortion states. Also, we should be concerned about signals from the U.S. Supreme Court about curtailing other rights, such as marriage equality. In Colorado your basic human rights should not depend on your identity and I will support laws to protect basic rights even if the U.S. Supreme Court does not.
I have also fought to create better remedies for survivors of sexual harassment, sexual assault and domestic violence. These are offenses that can have especially deep and long-lasting impacts on people who suffer them. In 2021 I helped pass two new laws to create better civil remedies for survivors of sex offenses, SB073 and SB088. We have more work to do to update our employment laws concerning workplace harassment however.
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2020
Mike Weissman did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
2016
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During the 2016 election cycle Weissman was one of the candidates endorsed by President Barack Obama |
Full list of Obama's 2016 endorsements |
Weissman's campaign website highlighted the following issues:[7]
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Campaign finance summary
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2024
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In 2024, the Colorado State Legislature was in session from January 10 to May 8.
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2023
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In 2023, the Colorado State Legislature was in session from January 9 to May 8.
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2022
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In 2022, the Colorado State Legislature was in session from January 12 to May 11.
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2021
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In 2021, the Colorado State Legislature was in session from January 13 to June 8.
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2020
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In 2020, the Colorado State Legislature was in session from January 8 to June 15.
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2019
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In 2019, the Colorado State Legislature was in session from January 4 through May 3.
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2018
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In 2018, the 72nd Colorado State Legislature was in session from January 10 through May 9.
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2017
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In 2017, the 71st Colorado State Legislature was in session from January 11 through May 10. There was also a special session from October 2-3.
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Candidate Colorado State Senate District 28 |
Officeholder Colorado State Senate District 28 |
Personal |
Footnotes
- ↑ MikeWeissman.com, "About," accessed June 29, 2017
- ↑ Aurora Sentinel, "SENTINEL ENDORSEMENTS: Considering integrity, transparency, health care, gun safety and education, our state House picks for 2018," October 18, 2018
- ↑ Colorado Secretary of State, "General election candidates," accessed August 16, 2016
- ↑ Colorado Secretary of State, "2016 General Election results," accessed December 14, 2016
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Colorado Secretary of State, "2016 Primary Election Candidate List," accessed May 3, 2016
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Colorado Secretary of State, "June 28, 2016 Primary Election," accessed August 22, 2016
- ↑ Mike Weissman, "Issues," accessed September 19, 2016
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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Preceded by Rhonda Fields (D) |
Colorado State Senate District 28 2025-Present |
Succeeded by - |
Preceded by - |
Colorado House of Representatives District 36 2017-2025 |
Succeeded by Michael Carter (D) |