Republican CU Regent Heidi Ganahl files to run for Colorado governor [View all]
Its official: Colorados only remaining statewide elected Republican official will challenge Democratic Gov. Jared Polis in the 2022 governors race.
Campaign representatives for Heidi Ganahl, an entrepreneur and at-large member of the University of Colorado Board of Regents, filed paperwork early Friday with the Colorado secretary of states office to form her candidate committee, Heidi for Colorado. The committees registration form says its purpose is to raise funds and support for Republican Heidi Ganahl to be the governor of Colorado.
Ganahls run for governor had been widely expected in Colorado political circles in recent months. She told the Colorado Springs Gazette this week that she plans to make a big announcement in her hometown of Monument on Tuesday.
Ganahl was elected to a six-year term on the Board of Regents in 2016, becoming the most recent and currently the only Republican candidate to have won election to a statewide office in Colorado, following a clean sweep by Democrats in the 2018 election.
Read more: https://coloradonewsline.com/briefs/republican-regent-heidi-ganahl-runs-colorado-governor/