Diane Mitsch Bush, a former member of the Colorado House of Representatives, also qualified for the Democratic primary in June with about 47.5% of the vote.<\/p>\n
The vote \u201cshows that we are building the support needed to beat Scott Tipton this November and bring a real voice back to Western and Southern Colorado,\u201d Iacino said in a news release.<\/p>\n To connect with voters during self-isolation, Iacino has hosted weekly online meet-and-greets on Wednesdays, and on Saturdays, he hosts a Facebook Live stream to discuss issues small-business owners are facing during the economic shutdown.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are in a time of crisis and need a leader who will stand for us and not partisan interests,\u201d Iacino said.<\/p>\n Ryan Mulcahy, Iacino\u2019s campaign manager, said they\u2019ve seen an uptick in the number of people who go to the online events as they become the new normal.<\/p>\n Recent endorsements from prominent Democrats in Colorado, such as former Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Attorney General Phil Weiser, former U.S. Rep. John Salazar and former state Sen. Gail Schwartz over the past three months have also helped bring attention to Iacino\u2019s campaign, despite the global pandemic consuming people\u2019s attention, Mulcahy said.<\/p>\n Mitsch Bush\u2019s campaign manager, Robin Logsdon, said that despite the challenges of running a campaign remotely, \u201cpeople are still fired up.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe are grateful and proud of the support we\u2019ve gotten across the district and of all the volunteers helping us,\u201d Logsdon said.<\/p>\n Mitsch Bush\u2019s 43 years of living and working on the Western Slope is \u201cone of a lot of reasons to be drawn to her candidacy,\u201d Logsdon said. \u201cShe means what she says and she has the track record to prove it.\u201d<\/p>\n As the small-business owner of Seattle Fish Co., Iacino said his experience with the COVID-19 outbreak has propelled him to focus on helping other small-business owners and those who have been laid off understand what resources are available to them.<\/p>\n Iacino has said he advocates for faster implementation of the $2 trillion economic relief package from Congress and \u201cgetting money into the hands of people who need it.\u201d<\/p>\n Grassroots progressive candidate Root Routledge earned 3% of the delegates, and will not be on the primary ballot.<\/p>\n Logsdon said the 3rd Congressional District Democrats will \u201cdecide what vision they want\u201d for the district June 30.<\/p>\n Emily Hayes is a graduate student at American University in Washington, D.C., and an intern for The Durango Herald.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Democratic candidates qualify for primary ballot in June<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[120,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-64977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-colorado","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64977"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=64977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}