Democratic Socialist Candidate
Colorado Holds the Country Together
Colorado is the heart of America.
Our rivers water the West.
Our farms feed millions far beyond our borders.
Our roads, power lines, and infrastructure connect rural and urban communities alike.
When Colorado is strong, the country holds together.
But right now, too many Coloradans are being left behind.
Rural hospitals are closing or operating on the edge of collapse.
Families are driving hours for emergency care or finding none at all.
People are being denied essential, lifesaving treatment not because it isn’t needed, but because the systems meant to provide it are being allowed to fail.
At the same time, corporations are buying up farmland and not to farm or protect it, but to control water, consolidate power, and extract profit from resources that should remain in local hands. Poisoning the supply for locals and local wildlife. That isn't the Colorado we know.
We are also seeing a growing push toward federal control and policies that override local decision-making and risk turning places of care into instruments of confinement rather than healing.
That is not resilience.
It is abandonment.
We can survive it, maybe even thrive it in, together.
WHY I’M RUNNING
I’m running for governor because too many decisions about Colorado are being made far away from the people who live here.
I’ve watched communities lose hospitals, farmers lose land and water, and families get priced out or pushed aside. Not because solutions didn’t exist, but because profit and consolidation were allowed to override common sense.
I’ve worked inside critical infrastructure systems and alongside communities building their own. I know what happens when systems fail, and I know what it takes to keep them running. Quietly, responsibly, and with people at the center.
I’m not running to be louder than anyone else.
I’m running to protect what makes Colorado livable: our land, our water, our communities, and our freedom to govern ourselves.
Colorado works best when decisions are made by the people who live with the consequences. That’s the kind of leadership I’m offering. Something we build together.
Carmen Broesder
STANDING UP WHEN IT MATTERS
I’m Carmen Broesder, and I’m running for governor because I don’t believe Colorado should be handed over to corporate consolidation or ruled by distant federal decisions that ignore our communities.
I believe in paying down our debt responsible, without cutting corners on the people who keep this state running.
I believe in keeping our land and water in local hands, protected for future generations. Eliminating waste and addressing legacy contamination, including radioactive materials in our water systems, is possible.
As a network operations center engineer for a global water-infrastructure company, I work with systems that monitor, protect, and restore drinking water, wastewater, and critical environmental resources every day. I know what works and what fails because I see it in real time.
And I believe no one in Colorado should be left without care because a hospital, clinic, or essential service was labeled “unprofitable", because our laws protect us.
I’ve spent years working at the intersection of infrastructure, housing, and emergency systems (both professionally and through community-based work.) I’ve seen what happens when systems fail rural towns, working families, and vulnerable neighbors. I’ve also helped build practical alternatives when those systems didn’t show up.
Colorado doesn’t need a louder governor.
It needs one who stands with the people, understands life on the ground, and is willing to live among the communities they serve.
Carmen Broesder
A different kind of Governor
WHAT WE BUILD INSTEAD
The Three Core Pillars
1. Farms & Water
Protect Colorado’s land and water by keeping them in local hands. That means supporting family farms and ranches, strengthening farmer-owned and water-user cooperatives, and enforcing strong anti-monopoly protections so out-of-state corporations cannot drain our resources or price locals out. Clean water, healthy soil, and food security are not optional. Truthfully, they are the foundation of Colorado’s future.
2. Families
Ensure families can stay in the communities they call home. That means reopening and stabilizing rural hospitals, protecting clinics from private-equity shutdowns, and guaranteeing reasonable access to urgent and emergency care across the state. You matter, no matter your ZIP code.
3. Freedom
Defend Colorado’s right to govern itself. That means rejecting mass detention, forced institutionalization, and the seizure or closure of care facilities under the guise of efficiency, profit, or federal pressure. Colorado solutions should be made by Coloradans.
This is not about left versus right.
It is about whether people can live, work, and raise families in Colorado without fear.
Colorado does not need to be “saved” by outsiders.
It needs to be protected by people who live here, love it, and are willing to do the work.
I plan to work with local leaders and residents in every district by helping each community build solutions that reflect their land, their needs, and their freedom.
— Carmen Broesder
A different kind of Governor
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