The plan.
Most campaigns take your money and spend it on ads about the candidate. This one takes your money and spends it on your block, then shows you the receipt.
The race
Sarah Parady stepped down from her At-Large seat on Denver City Council on August 5, 2026. That triggers a special election on November 3. One seat, whoever gets the most votes wins, no runoff. The winner serves the rest of the term.
Special elections are decided by the people who show up.
The money
This campaign runs on Denver's Fair Elections Fund: public matching money that exists so regular people can run without calling rich people for a year. The rules that come with it are strict, and we follow all of them:
- People only. No corporate money, no PACs. Donations come from human beings.
- $415 is the legal maximum for any one person, because this campaign takes Denver's Fair Elections Fund and its stricter limits.
- Small gifts get multiplied. The Fund matches small-dollar donations from Denverites, so fifty dollars can become five hundred dollars of neighborhood work.
- Everything is reported. To the Clerk by law, and on our receipts page by choice.
Then we go one step past the rules: every outbound dollar also goes on the public receipts page, itemized, the week we spend it. The quarterly filing catches up later.
What we spend it on
Neighbors tell us what their block needs at Your block. We pick what we can get done, hire Denver people to do it, and post the receipt. This is most of the budget.
Repair clinics, cleanup crews, paperwork help. Show up, get the thing fixed.
A part-time coordinator, legal review, printing, and web hosting. The law requires a treasurer. Ours is a volunteer. No consultants and no TV ads.
The pledges
A council member elected in this special election holds four powers from day one: a vote on every contract of $500,000 or more, a vote on every confirmation, a microphone, and a calendar. I've made four pledges that spend those powers, each specific enough to check: no vote for surveillance vendors without rules, no city money for wage thieves, no more $498,500 contracts, and a public calendar of who has my ear. They live at the pledges page.
When I ask for your vote
The work comes first. I'll ask for your vote one time, in October, after you've seen what we did with the money. If you like the work, vote for me so we can do it from inside City Hall. If you don't, vote for someone else. The work happens either way.
