MARCANO: Aurora election running ‘Republicans in Democrat’s clothing’

by Juan Marcano, Guest Columnist

‘Money comes with strings. We deserve legislators who are backed by and will fight for working-class Aurorans’

Money comes with strings.

In Aurora, dark money front groups are being funded by a who’s-who of Republican-aligned donors – but they’re playing in the Democratic primary. Big business, school privatizers, corporate polluters, the apartment association, the realtor’s association, the insurance industry, and the for-profit hospital industry have collectively decided that it is easier for them to buy a Democrat than to run a Republican in north Aurora.

These groups have friendly names like “One Main Street”, “Brighter Colorado Future”, and “We Are Colorado Business” – but their “main street” is gilded by wages stolen from working families. A brighter future for for-profit hospitals and the pharmaceutical industry looks like medical bankruptcy and an early death for people who can’t afford their medicine. Business as usual is why our cost of living is obscenely high and our homelessness rate is skyrocketing. The faceless cowards behind these groups don’t just want to keep things this way. They want to take even more, because our hardship is their profit.