AURORA | Democratic Congressman Jason Crow has made official his bid for a fourth term representing Colorado’s 6th Congressional District, offering up a catalog of endorsements statewide from fellow Democrats.
“Democracy is on the ballot. Our national security is on the ballot. Women’s rights are on the ballot,” Crow said in a statement. “My time in combat taught me to never back down from a fight, and I don’t intend to stop now.”
The former Army Ranger and Bronze Star recipient has focused his first three terms on a wide variety of causes, including immigration reform, climate change, healthcare reform, gun safety, abortion rights, national security and foreign affairs.
He handily won his first three contests for the House district seat, a district populated mostly by Aurora residents. Crow flipped the former Republican-held seat to Democrat, beating former GOP Congressperson Mike Coffman by 10 points in 2018.
Crow has drawn the national spotlight on a few occasions, first by being tabbed as an impeachment manager, even as a freshman member of Congress, during the first impeachment of Donald Trump.
During the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, Crow was in the House gallery and was photographed helping other panicked members of the House flee to safety.
Recently, Crow has attracted the media spotlight again for his stark criticism of fellow Colorado House Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Western Slope Republican.
Crow has been a staunch advocate for banning military-type weapons for personal use.
In a statement yesterday, Crow touted endorsements from more than 50 Colorado Democratic officials, including senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, and elected officials from Gov. Jared Polis down to local city, county and school board officials.
As a freshman, Crow served as Co-Chair of the National Security Task Force. Crow now sits on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where he serves as the Ranking Member on the Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee.
Crow said he will not only press for his own re-election, but he will “work to elect Democratic candidates up and down the ballot in Colorado and work to flip the House blue.”
Retired ICE field officer and Air Force veteran John Fabbricatore, an Aurora Republican, has announced he will seek his party’s nomination to challenge Crow in the general election.
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Not once is the ongoing invasion from the southern boarder something that Crow, totally oblivious to, is he willing to publicly discuss. I know it’s a pesky little inconvenient truth. It’s a pesky little Federal problem. One that Crow, pointblank will not get close to. He is completely uninterested about our boarder safety. Despite the local streets, and business parking lots in Aurora, and north Aurora/Denver boarder where now daily non-citizens mainly shipped from Denver complements of mayor Johnson are asking in Spanish for money but with English messages on cardboard signs. Johnson complains it’s because of that dreadful man, Governor Greg Abbott. No, it’s the failure of elected guys like Crow, delegated to enforce the law. He knows the proper chain of command better than most. Sure, makes that claim anyway. Denver a solid grass-roots sanctuary -city has endorsed this open- door policy to non- citizen from where-ever, anytime.
Jason Crow, instead is eager to ignore any part of this unrelenting boarder breakdown and overflow reality. John Fabbricatore, on the other hand, maybe, just maybe…. US citizens in Aurora and Centennial have had enough and ready for someone like you with the solution and won’t run away from the big picture. You see it so clear- enforce the law.
Jason Crow stands for common sense in government. I’d expect nothing less from a veteran of our military. He’s brave in the face of the fire and chaos coming the GOP, including his stance against military weapons in the hands of irresponsible civilians, for all people, including women, to control our own bodies and accountability in all elected offices. I’m glad he’s my representative in Congress and I will do all I can to keep him there!
There must be an unwritten rule when you’re a congressman in a district that has a problem of epidemic level and one that makes the news everyday- whatever you do- do not comment about it under any circumstance.
The city of Aurora is feeling the unchecked border crisis first hand. This calamity because the Federal lawmakers refuse to lock down the flood gates of illegal boarder crosses daily. Jason Crow, Aurora CD6 representative had a chance in November on H.R. 5283 Protecting our Communities from Failure to Secure the Boarder Act of 2023. This perfect opportunity to vote to stop the invasion, Jason Crow, voted NO, in essence telling us, we will keep the border wide open no matter how much damage occurs. Diana Degete, and Peterson were no different in their thinking. Why protect our boarder? There’s no problem we can see going on. Yet we see this nightly, this week “White House looks for Federal spaces to house migrants amid pressure from cities”
President Biden faculties preclude him from doing much of anything-anymore, much less recognize his own failed boarder policy, but he is old. Nonetheless, Congressman Jason Crow, not old, and able to somewhat think, yet keeps this prodigious failure in motion. What does it take for this lane-brain holding a seat within the D.C. Federal management of our country to get the message?
It moreover shows the level of disregard to CD-6 citizens that our own countries boarder is some secondary no big deal to issue. So-what if it can’t remain secure.
“Mayor Mike Johnson warned council members on Tuesday that the city has reached a breaking point with immigrants -who illegally crossed the US-Mexico boarder-ending up in Denver, a crisis that is now threatening the fiscal health of Colorado’s most populous city” 1/10/24 The Denver Gazette
Are you a bot? You read about as smart as one.
Not to be nitpicky here, but a quick note to both “Dean 68” and “Bob”: the mayor of Denver is Mike JohnsTon, not Johnson.
👍👍Thank you for that.
Crow merits respect and gratitude for his military service, but not exemption from accountability for his support of policies that endanger public safety and national security. George McGovern was a brave bomber pilot. jimmy Carter was a brilliant sub commander. John Kerry served honorably in the Navy. Ronald Reagan only pretended to be in the military in the movies. Yet, whereas McGovern, Carter, and Kerry favored policies of appeasement, Reagan, with the help of Maggie Thatcher, Karol Wojtyla, Lech Walesa, the Afghan Northern Command, and others, brought down the Soviet Union. Obama and Biden opposed lethal aid or NATO membership for Ukraine. Only once Putin accepted what amounted to Biden’s engraved invitation to invade Ukraine did Biden and Crow become Ukraine hawks. Crow sought impeachment of Trump for giving Ukraine Javelins, but foolishly seeking (unsuccessfully) to condition them on Zelensky finding out why Burisma tried to bribe Biden by enriching Hunter. Crow and his allies were peculiarly indifferent to the possibility Burisma had sought to bribe Biden. Because it is my impression that Fabbricatore does not approve of Trump’s efforts to subvert the Electoral College through chicanery and violence, and because Fabbricatore supports correctly monitored military aid for Ukraine, traditional Republicans who despise Trump and will never vote for him should feel comfortable supporting Fabbricatore.