By Ernest Luning and Mark Samuelson | The Denver Gazette
Unaffiliated congressional candidate Shimon Blau, a Denver doctor, has qualified by petition for the general election in Colorado’s 1st District, where Democrat Melat Kiros defeated 15-term U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette in last month’s primary, the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office said Friday.
Blau, a newcomer to politics, submitted just shy of 2,000 valid signatures on July 8 days after starting his petition drive in response to Kiros’s upset primary win over DeGette.
Election officials said 1,918 of the 2,212 signatures gathered by Blau were accepted, easily clearing the 1,500 signature requirement.
Shimon Blau, who qualified to run for the 1st Congressional District, conversed with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Weiser at a campaign event Thursday. (Photo courtesy of Shimon Blau campaign)
In a statement, Blau thanked volunteers and those who signed his petition.
“Now the real work begins, he said in the statement.
“I want the people of Denver to know this: if elected, I will not
hesitate to stand up to the Trump administration whose policies
are harming the people of Colorado’s First Congressional
District and undermining the values we share.”
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