Jason Crow

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Jason Crow (2019)

Jason Crow (born March 15, 1979 in Madison , Wisconsin ) is an American Democratic Party politician . He has represented the 6th Congressional Constituency of the state of Colorado in the United States House of Representatives since 2019 .

Family, education and work

Crow grew up in Wisconsin and claims to come from a working class family. He worked in construction and enrolled in the National Guard to help fund the college. In the National Guard, he said he recognized the appeal of doing service for his country and decided to join the military after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 .

He began studying behavioral science and law in 1998 at the University of Wisconsin – Madison , where he graduated in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts . He then served as a ranger in the US Army from 2002 to 2006 and had three assignments in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the Iraq War he took part in the Battle of Samawa in 2003 in the 82nd Airborne Division and received the Bronze Star . He was stationed in Tacoma for the Joint Special Operations Command and participated in two missions in Afghanistan.

After his active service, he continued his studies at the Law School of the University of Denver in Colorado, where he received the Juris Doctor in 2009 . From 2009 to 2014, Crow served on the Colorado Board of Veterans Affairs, the state authority for veterans affairs. He joined the local Denver office of the major law firm Holland and Hart , where he worked in civil and criminal matters and on corporate compliance programs through to a congressional mandate, and where he became a partner in 2017. In 2011 he was a lecturer in white collar crime at the University of Denver. In the meantime he was involved in projects run by Governor John Hickenlooper and Senator Mark Udall .

Crow has two children with his Colorado-born wife Deserai, whom he met while serving in the North Carolina army and married in 2005. You live in Aurora , an eastern suburb of Denver .

Political career

Crow was involved in politics even before he started his Congress career. He took part in the 2012 Democratic National Convention and gave a speech in which he campaigned for Barack Obama's nomination for second term as president, but claims that he had not considered a political career until Donald Trump was elected President in 2016 . He, who had never run for a political mandate before, announced in April 2017 that he would run for the seat in the US House of Representatives in the 2018 election in the 6th congressional constituency of Colorado, which had previously been held by Republican Mike Coffman . At that time he did not live in the district, but in Stapleton , which is immediately adjacent to the west , which brought him accusations from political opponents that he did not know the constituency and was a carpet excavator . On June 28, 2018, he beat left businessman Levi Tillemann with 66 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary . In the main election in November 2018, he defeated Coffman with 54 to 43 percent of the vote, after he had already led in the polls.

The district, which since restructuring in 2013 includes the eastern suburbs of Denver with Aurora and is the most ethnically diverse in the state with a 20 percent Hispanic share , is structurally balanced between the two major parties ( Cook Partisan Voting Index : R + 1), which is why Coffman's headquarters had been one of the main Democrats' goals for years. In 2016, Coffman had won 51 to 43 percent against State Senator Morgan Carroll , but Donald Trump had clearly lost the constituency in the presidential election at the same time . With his military past and the promise of being an approachable representative of the people, Crow had a profile similar to that of the personally popular Coffman, who was valued by many of the district's interest groups and communities. While Republican campaign spots attacked Crow's initial legal practice for white collar criminals, he defended his work, which included pro bono mandates and programs against discrimination and harassment in the workplace. Observers attributed the election result to President Trump's persistent unpopularity, especially among immigrants and minorities, and the longing for a new beginning, which Crow embodied as a politically blank slate. He won particularly in the usually Republican-leaning suburbs like Greenwood Village , Centennial and Highlands Ranch .

Crow took office in the House of Representatives on January 3, 2019. He is the first Democrat to represent this Congressional constituency since its creation in 1983.

Positions

Crow sees himself as part of a line of younger politicians who want veteran affairs to be at the center of politics; in the 116th Congress - with Crow - more veterans are represented than in any before. He campaigned for a strengthening of non-partisan cooperation and is politically moderate. Unlike the left wing of his party, he believes the abolition of the immigration authority, which has come under criticism under Trump, is wrong and advocates a holistic reform of immigration policy . Even when impeachment proceedings were initiated against President Trump, Crow remained waiting during the election campaign. He wanted to wait until there was a report from the special investigator Robert Mueller , whose work Crow wanted to legally shield better from political influence. An impeachment of the highly controversial Supreme Court judge Brett Kavanaugh , demanded by some Democrats, was rejected by Crow during the election campaign. Crow named his experience as a father as the reason that he campaigned for stricter gun controls, for example to prevent rampages in schools .

Web links

Commons : Jason Crow  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Anna Staver: Democrat Jason Crow, 6th Congressional District candidate, leans on experience as a father and a veteran. In: The Denver Post , October 4, 2018
  2. ^ A b c Jesse Paul: Get to know Jason Crow, the Democrat running in Colorado's 6th Congressional District. In: The Colorado Sun , October 12, 2018
  3. ↑ Jason Crow's Biography. In: Vote Smart.
  4. ↑ General Election 2018: CO District 06. In: Our Campaigns.
  5. ↑ Niels Lesniewski: . GOP Rep Mike Coffman Wins Again in Colorado's 6th District. In: Roll Call , November 8, 2016
  6. ^ Ann Marie Awad: Coffman's Seemingly Unbreakable Streak Is Broken By A Changing 6th District. In: Colorado Public Radio , November 7, 2018.
  7. ↑ Andrea Dukakis: Jason Crow Is Part Of A Veteran Wave. Here's How His Military Experience Informs His Policy. In: Colorado Public Radio , December 7, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Crow, Jason
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crow, Jason A. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Democratic Party politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Madison , Wisconsin