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Emily Sirota Democrat
Residence: Denver
Profession: Social Worker
Education: MSW-University of Denver; BA-Indiana University
Experience: Emily served 8 years in the state House, Emily helped run an early learning center in Denver, and worked in policy, research and community organizing roles with Colorado nonprofits.
What are your top three priorities, if elected?
1. Making the tax code fairer for working people
2. Advancing consumer protections
3. Addressing the affordability crisis many Coloradans are experiencing
What specific actions would you support to improve affordability for Coloradans, whether aimed at housing costs, tax burdens or other impacts?
There are opportunities in health care, housing, childcare, education, and energy to make Colorado more affordable. We can prevent huge data centers from passing on electricity costs to residential consumers. We can continue our work in regulating high cost prescription drugs. We can increase access to affordable child care and education if we pass a graduated income tax – Amendment 87. We can continue our work preventing price discrimination and predatory algorithmic pricing practices of big corporations.
Whether your party is in the majority or minority next year, where do you see actionable common ground with the opposing party?
Child care is frequently an area we are able to find bipartisan consensus in addressing.
A new governor will take office next year. What opportunities are there for legislation or other changes that did not gain traction under Gov. Jared Polis?
I believe we have a much greater opportunity to address consumer protection issues with a new governor who will not be so aligned with Big Tech.
Sydnnia Wulff did not return the questionnaire.
