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Tue Aug 28, 2018, 05:45 AM Aug 2018

Meet Dianne Primavera, Jared Polis's Lieutenant Governor Pick

Dianne Primavera, who's running for lieutenant governor alongside Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jared Polis, is a former state representative whose personal experiences as a cancer survivor inspired her to become one of the state's most passionate health-care advocates.

In November, Polis and Primavera will face off against the Republican tandem of Colorado Treasurer Walker Stapleton and his pick for lieutenant governor, Lang Sias, a state representative for House District 27. We have made repeated requests to interview Sias to multiple members of the Stapleton campaign staff and have yet to receive a single response from any of them. If that changes, we will happily share Sias's story in this space.

During our conversation with Primavera, she outlines her unusual path toward politics — one that didn't begin developing until after she'd battled at least three forms of cancer over a span of years. She frankly discusses how the stress of this fight caused her marriage to disintegrate and made the challenge of supporting two daughters on her own even greater.

After that, Primavera talks about her first unsuccessful run for the Colorado House, during which she says she encountered the sort of sexism all too common in electoral politics, as well as subsequent wins and losses. She goes on to detail how she met and got to know Polis and what she hopes to accomplish if the pair wins at the ballot box this fall.

Read more: https://www.westword.com/news/meet-dianne-primavera-jared-poliss-lieutenant-governor-pick-10613896

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