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DATE: March 29, 2026
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Seligman Stuns Political Establishment with Assembly Showing, Easily Making June Ballot
PUEBLO, CO - In a wake-up call for Colorado's political establishment, David Seligman — a first-time candidate and workers' rights lawyer who has never held elected office — finished just 17 delegates behind twice-elected Secretary of State Jena Griswold at Saturday's Colorado Democratic State Assembly, capturing more than 40 percent of delegate support and easily clearing the 30 percent threshold to advance to the June primary ballot.
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The result reflects a simple contrast: Secretary Griswold has spent her career running for office. Seligman has spent his career winning in court for working families — taking on private prison companies, JBS, Amazon, billion-dollar hospital systems, corporate landlords, and the Trump administration on behalf of Coloradans who needed someone in their corner.
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"Across Colorado, people are tired of a politics that fails to meet this moment and is all too often deferential to the same corporations and donor class making their lives harder," said Seligman. "As your next attorney general, I will take on anyone contributing to the rigged economy and the corruption eroding our democracy."
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Colorado Democrats are just beginning to get to know David Seligman — and Saturday showed what's possible when they do. With a grassroots campaign still in its early days, the margin against a two-term statewide officeholder sent a message: this race is wide open, and the people are ready for an AG who has always been on their side.
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"I'm a lawyer for working families who decided to run for office because I got tired of watching politicians reach for talking points when people are in a fight for their lives," Seligman said. "The goal of politics is simple: make people's lives better. I intend to use the law — boldly and courageously — to do exactly that."
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David has already earned endorsements from many of the most prominent progressives in the state legislature, labor unions like the Colorado Education Association, Communication Workers of America 7777 and 7799, and he's continuing to pick up support from every corner of Colorado as he enters the final three months of the campaign.
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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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