Boulder--The Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) Chapter serving
Colorado's Second Congressional District (CD-2) met on Saturday, May 3 at the Boulder Public Library to consider an endorsement in the Democratic race for the House of Representatives seat being vacated by Congressman Mark Udall. The PDA chapter voted to endorse Joan Fitz-Gerald. She received more
than two-thirds of the vote, making her eligible for a national PDA endorsement.

 
WESTMINSTER, Colo.—Today the congressional campaign of Senator Joan Fitz-Gerald called upon her Democratic primary opponents, Jared Polis and Will Shafroth, to complete and make available the Boulder County Platform Survey. The deadline was on February 28, 2008. The 2nd Congressional District Assembly is on May 10th.

"Part of being in a legislative body is having to make real choices and take votes. Will and Jared can't just sit on the sidelines. Voters deserve to know where they stand on the important issues facing this district," said Mary Alice Mandarich, campaign manager for Senator Fitz-Gerald. "The platform committee worked long and hard on developing the surveys and it is disrespectful to them and to the voters to ignore it."

WESTMINSTER, Colo.—As part of Earth Day yesterday Senator Joan Fitz-Gerald, former President of the Colorado State Senate and a candidate for the Second Congressional District, spent the afternoon with volunteers and campaign staff cleaning up Boulder Creek from Eben G. Fine park to 9th Street.

Senator Fitz-Gerald also spent yesterday participating in a radio show on climate change and a luncheon for Eco Cycle. Last weekend Senator Fitz-Gerald volunteered for Habitat for Humanity and planted trees.

 
WESTMINSTER, Colo.—Senator Joan Fitz-Gerald, former President of the Colorado State Senate and a candidate for the Second Congressional District, made the following statement on  KGNU in Boulder this morning on the show “How on Earth” with Tom McKinnon in reaction to the comments by Representative Douglas Bruce. Yesterday Rep. Bruce said we don’t “need 5,000 illiterate peasants”
 
“I repudiate the remarks of Douglas Bruce,” said Senator Fitz-Gerald. “His remarks were hurtful and bigoted to people who felt the sting of those words.” Fitz-Gerald also added, “There is no place where it is acceptable to divide people by race and class especially on the floor of the Colorado State House.”
 

 
WESTMINSTER, Colo.—In advance of Earth Day, Senator Joan Fitz-Gerald, former President of the Colorado State Senate and a candidate for the Second Congressional District, released a podcast today after a series of meetings and discussions with the world’s leading scientists and scholars on climate change and global warming.
 
Senator Fitz-Gerald spent the weekend volunteering for Habitat for Humanity and planting trees. Tomorrow for Earth Day she will be participating in a radio show on climate change, a luncheon for Eco Cycle and a clean up of Boulder Creek.
 
Listen to the podcast at:
http://www.clickcaster.com/items/finding-solutions-to-global-warming-2
 
In the podcast, Senator Fitz-Gerald said,
 
The problem has become abundantly clear: The earth is heating up and drastic solutions are necessary if we are stop global warming. We must do something about accumulating green house gases now.