Trisha Calvarese

Trisha Calvarese graduated from Highlands Ranch High School. She earned a bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University and has been affiliated with AFL-CIO.[1][2]

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Regular election

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I'm a Colorado native who grew up in Sterling and Highlands Ranch. I was working in Washington, D.C. when my parents got sick. Thanks to my union, I was able to return home last fall to provide end-of-life care. Now, I'm running for Congress to protect social security, Medicare, Medicaid, and to restore abortion rights, and to make Colorado a world leader in renewable energy and climate technology.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

In 2023, Trisha Calvarese’s mom and dad both had cancer and passed within days of each other. She knows firsthand that seniors depend on the healthcare programs and benefits that we promised them. Trisha Calvarese will fight against any proposal that raises the retirement age or cuts Social Security and Medicare benefits.Trisha Calvarese believes that politicians should not interfere with a healthcare decision that should be left to a woman and her healthcare provider. As state after state bans abortion, Calvarese will fiercely oppose extremists who want to ban contraceptives, fertility treatments, and all abortions nationwide, with no exceptions for rape, incest, or when the life of the woman is at risk.Calvarese will work to create more opportunities for the people of Colorado’s 4th Congressional District to build their lives and support their families in the towns they love. Calvarese will support our farmers and ranchers and improve American competitiveness in manufacturing and technology to bring the jobs of tomorrow to the district and create more opportunities for working-class families close to home.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Trisha Calvarese has always been fierce advocate for abortion rights. Trisha's fundamental belief that a woman's healthcare decisions should be between her and her doctor extends beyond abortion to her passionate support for Medicare, Medicaid and social security. These federal programs were critical to Trisha's mother and father when she moved home to provide end of life care to both of them before they died 13 days apart. Trisha also has a deep and profound passion for the American workforce. Her adult life has been primarily committed to expanding opportunities for American workers and keeping our nation competitive on the global stage.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

In contrast to Trisha's opponent, Lauren Boebert, Trisha feels it is critical for elected officials to be honest with their constituents, have compassion for their fellow Americans, and treat all Coloradans with respect and dignity.

What is something that has been a struggle in your life?

One of the most challenging moments in Trisha's life was when her dad got sick. Trisha's mother soon fell ill as well and she had to move home to provide end of life care to both of them. Before he died, Trisha's father, a lifelong Republican, encouraged her to run for office to put a stop to the toxic politics consuming our nation. She considers his support to be her first endorsement. Trisha's mother and father passed away within 13 days of each other leaving her with a heavy heart and a burning passion to join the fight to protect healthcare access for all Americans, especially our seniors.

What organizations or individuals have endorsed your campaign?

Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen

Former Congresswoman Betsy Markey

Former Congressman Ed Perlmutter

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser

State Senator Jessie Danielson

State Representative Leslie Herod

Special election

Trisha Calvarese did not complete [the profile publisher]'s 2024 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign website

Calvarese’s campaign website stated the following:

Access to Care

Choice

The ability for families to prosper begins with a woman's right to choose. The government has no place in that decision. Strong families depend on local and affordable access to reproductive care, maternal care, pre and post-natal, including compassionate miscarriage care, and mental health support.

Care Thanks to Medicare, Trisha was able to move home and provide end-of-life care to both of her parents without going into debt to pay for care. Our seniors depend on Medicare benefits and Trisha will oppose any plan to cut Medicare, or the Affordable Care Act, which provides affordable healthcare to millions of Americans. In rural areas, she'll expand access to care by investing in, and saving our rural hospitals.

Trisha will also work to lower prescription drug costs by allowing Medicare to negotiate for lower prices, and she'll support long overdue Investments to make childcare and eldercare accessible to everyone.

Social Security Our seniors depend on their Social Security benefits, but rising costs are making it hard for many to keep up. Trisha will work to strengthen Social Security by increasing benefits to keep up with rising costs.

Affordability

Lowering Costs We need to foster robust local economies, re-shore and secure supply chains, and cultivate industries domestically rather than abroad. Lowering costs starts with our capacity to discover, invent, and make products locally. Trisha will work to invest in our local economy by removing barriers to start a small business. That means lowering start-up costs, increasing access to capital, providing resources for entrepreneurs and expanding rural broadband so that businesses have reliable access to internet.

Trisha will work to stop price gouging by monopolies and corporations, by holding them accountable for practices that make the cost of living unsustainable for every-day Americans.

Affordable Housing Housing is out of reach for far too many young families, and increasing property values are bringing new challenges with unexpected increases in property taxes and insurance, especially in District 4’s desirable communities and small towns. Trisha would work to expand resources to first time home buyers and ban hedge funds and other investment speculators from buying houses just to drive up costs. Homes should be for working people and families first, and investors and speculators last.

Economic Security

Crucial to America's national security is the economic stability of our families.

Jobs One of the mot valuable assets you have is your job. We need more Family-supporting careers, pathways into the middle class and ladders up that meet people where they are, especially in the places that have been left out and overlooked. Trisha will work to secure investment in the industries of the future, and keep America on the cutting edge and cutting edge innovation. Those investments mean access to more high-paying jobs with training programs and apprenticeships built into our public education system.

At the same time, Trisha will work to protect workers from being displaced or exploited by emerging technologies, support small businesses, family farms, and local entrepreneurial ventures.

Education The labor apprenticeship model, where people can earn while they learn a skilled trade, is one of the oldest, most successful workforce training models in America. Trisha will work to make pathways universally available, that includes more opportunities that don't require a 4 year degree.

Trisha will work to bolster access to learning and workforce training at community colleges which will enable more people to participate and help address the looming talent shortage in STEM.

Colorado Resilience

Colorado's ability to grow, conserve, and connect impacts the nation, our success is America's success.

Water With temperatures rising, downstream states increasing need, and outside developers looking to profit without thinking of long-term solutions, we need a leader who will work to protect and conserve our residential communities and our growers.

Agriculture The farm bill is an opportunity to ensure our ranchers and farmers have what they need to make a living. It's an opportunity to get creative as we collectively solve major challenges related to a changing climate.

Infrastructure Strengthen the systems that connect us, like fast internet, reliable roads, safe rail, and renewable energy. Eastern Colorado is poised to become a world leader in large-scale energy transmission and storage.

American Competitiveness

We want the industries of the future and emerging technologies to be discovered, invented, and made in America, creating wide-spread opportunities in Colorado.

Invent & Discover America ceded manufacturing leadership decades ago. Efforts are underway to re-shore U.S. semiconductor manufacturing. That's just one industry, there are opportunities and high-stakes across a spectrum of fields for the next generation of discovery and innovation.

We want those innovations happening in our labs, foundries, and schools. If we don't invest to make it happen, we will fall behind and lose our ability to lead and shape the future. Trisha will fight to bring these opportunities, and good paying jobs back home and restore American Competitiveness.

Make There is a looming global talent shortage in technologies critical to our national and economic security. There are millions of Americans who could contribute to our science and engineering enterprise but are missing, not for lack of ability, but for lack of accessible opportunities. Trisha will work to expand the geography of American innovation with more onramps that are accessible to everyone.

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—Trisha Calvarese’s campaign website (2024)[4]