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DATE: March 17, 2026
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SELIGMAN LEADS DELEGATE STRAW POLL HEADING INTO COLORADO STATE ASSEMBLY
Workers’ and consumer rights lawyer who has never run for political office emerges from county caucuses with grassroots momentum — Assembly set for March 28 in Pueblo
DENVER, CO – David Seligman—the workers’ rights, civil rights, and consumer protection lawyer running for Colorado Attorney General—is the leading candidate for the Colorado Democratic Party’s nomination in a straw poll of delegates elected at Democratic caucuses and county assemblies across the state. He is running ahead of Secretary of State Jena Griswold by more than 2 points as the race heads into the March 28 statewide assembly in Pueblo. Currently, about 38% of delegates have expressed a preference for Seligman’s campaign as compared to 35.9% supporting Griswold. If Seligman holds his lead through statewide assembly, it will be a shocking upset of Jena Griswold, the self-proclaimed front runner in the race.
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Straw poll results come after thousands of Colorado Democrats gathered in communities across the state to elect delegates — and those delegates sent an early message about where the grassroots energy in this race lives.
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“People are done being told by political consultants who their leaders should be,” Seligman said. “They want an attorney general who has actually been in the trenches, standing up in court for working families.”
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Seligman has spent his entire legal career representing working people against the forces of wealth and power. He has taken on Amazon, Uber, Kroger, JBS, billion-dollar hospital systems, and corporate landlords — and he’s put nearly $100 million back in working people's pockets. He has sued both the Trump and Polis administrations. His team has notched important recent wins against the Polis Administration for violating laws prohibiting involuntary servitude, even for people who are incarcerated, and a Supreme Court win in a case Seligman has been litigating for more than a decade taking on the GEO Group, the private prison company that operates the Aurora immigration detention facility.
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He has never held political office. He says that's the point.
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“We should be done with stepping-stone politics. Now more than ever, we need a bold, courageous, and innovative lawyer to stand up to Trumpism and to fight for a better world than what came before. We need to do something transformative in government—a new New Deal—and core to that effort is putting the law on the side of working people who get screwed over at every turn while the elite trample our rights.”
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The Colorado Democratic State Assembly convenes March 28 in Pueblo, where delegates will determine which candidates qualify for the June primary ballot.
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David Seligman is one of the country’s leading workers’ rights, consumer rights, and antimonopoly lawyers. He is the Executive Director of Towards Justice, a nationally recognized non-profit legal and labor rights organization based in Denver. He fights for regular people in courts across the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court. He helps working Coloradans and small businesses take on powerful corporations and the Trump Administration—and he’s won. He stands up for nurses, rideshare drivers, meatpackers, Amazon workers, veterans, teachers, federal employees, grocery workers, renters buried in junk fees to the biggest landlords in the country, and working families drowning in medical debt to massive hospital systems. He has returned more than 100 million dollars to working people and forced powerful corporations to play by the rules in Colorado and across the country.
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Prior to his work at Towards Justice, David was an attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, where he helped consumers buried in debt and forced to give up their rights in the fine print. David lives in east Denver with his wife and three daughters, just a few miles from where he grew up. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and served as the Supreme Court Chair of the Harvard Law Review before clerking for appellate and trial level federal judges.
For more information about David Seligman’s campaign, visit https://seligmanforag.com
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