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Given the chance to question his opponent in the Democratic primary for the 8th Congressional District in public, state Rep. Manny Rutinel zeroed in on something he has and she doesn\u2019t: Latino heritage.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhy is it that you don\u2019t think Colorado deserves a Latino member of Congress?\u201d he asked his opponent, former state Rep. Shannon Bird, at a 9News debate earlier this month.<\/p>\n

With the two candidates now aligned on nearly every policy issue, Rutinel, 31, has made race a central focus in the race for Congress in one of the most hotly contested districts in the United States, stressing the Latino background he shares with about 40% of district residents.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bird, 57, who is white, emphasizes her much deeper roots and her willingness to listen to the priorities of Latino voters in the fast-developing district, which stretches from Denver\u2019s northern suburbs through Adams and Weld counties up U.S. 85 into Greeley.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The district has never been represented by someone who isn\u2019t Latino since the U.S. House seat was created in 2021. It\u2019s currently represented by Republican Gabe Evans, who is the grandson of Mexican immigrants on his mother\u2019s side. He won the 8th District in 2024 by just about 2,000 votes.<\/p>\n

Groups working to elect Latinos have spent $3 million to support Rutinel, who they believe can unseat Evans. Rutinel has raised more than $4 million in campaign contributions, nearly double what Bird has taken in.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Born in Los Angeles, Rutinel spent the first six years of his life living in the Dominican Republic, where his mother is from. He moved to Colorado four years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was appointed to his state House seat representing the Commerce City area in 2023 by a vacancy committee. He was elected to the seat the following year after running unopposed in both the primary and general elections.<\/p>\n

Bird, meanwhile, has represented Westminster in the Colorado General Assembly since 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have more Latinos than we have any other demographic,\u201d said Deb Suniga, first chair of the 8th District\u2019s Democratic committee, who has not taken a side in the primary race. \u201cBut I want the best person who is going to work for everyone. I want them to see the people and do the work for our constituents.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a wait and see I think,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Rutinel is new to Colorado<\/h2>\n

Rutinel first arrived in 2020 to work on John Hickenlooper\u2019s first Senate campaign, when he said he fell in love with the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He became a permanent resident in 2022, fresh out of Yale Law School.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rutinel wasn\u2019t drawn to Denver or a mountain community but settled in Commerce City within the 8th District because he said it reminded him of the Latino, working class communities he grew up in California and Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rutinel says growing up as the son of a single, immigrant mother and the work ethic that she instilled in him makes him the best person to represent the heavily-Latino district. His candidacy comes amid an immigration crackdown and the weakening of the Voting Rights Act, which Democrats say endangers Black-majority districts across the South.<\/p>\n

Rutinel rejects speculation that he moved to Commerce City to be able to run for Congress.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of lies have been spewed. No doubt about that,\u201d he said in a short interview with The Colorado Sun.<\/p>\n

On the campaign trail, Rutinel readily shares stories about his family\u2019s struggles.<\/p>\n

With the bank planning to foreclose on his family\u2019s house when he was in high school in Florida, Rutinel said he began selling his plasma to bring in money. He worked at McDonald\u2019s, turned the car engine off at red lights to save gas, got a job as a tutor and took courses at a community college so he could get a degree faster. Once enrolled in the University of Florida, Rutinel said he slept on friends\u2019 couches and floors during his first semester.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a reminder to me that no one\u2019s going to outwork me when it comes to taking back this seat and winning this seat back for the working people of this district,\u201d Rutinel said of how his experience informs his run.<\/p>\n

Bird\u2019s longstanding presence is important to her supporters<\/h2>\n

For Bird supporters, her longstanding presence in the district is one of her biggest strengths.<\/p>\n

Bird served on the Westminster City Council from 2015 to 2019 before being elected to the Colorado House of Representatives where she led the powerful Joint Budget Committee, the small group of bipartisan lawmakers tasked with the high stakes job of balancing the state\u2019s budget. At the legislature, she was known as a more moderate Democrat who earned the respect of her Republican colleagues by working across the aisle.<\/p>\n

She resigned from her seat this year in order to run for Congress.<\/p>\n

She shares working class roots with Rutinel. She was raised by a single mother and her grandmother in a trailer park in Reno, Nevada, where her grandmother worked as a casino dealer.<\/p>\n

Bird was the first person in her family to attend college. She moved to Colorado in 1987 to study economics at the University of Colorado and then earned a law degree from the University of Denver. She and her husband settled in the district in 2002 and raised their two children there.<\/p>\n

When her kids were in preschool, she became a classroom volunteer at the school, and later became president of the parent teacher organization as her kids moved through the Adams 12 Five Star Schools system, which is 45% Latino, she said. She was asked to chair the school district\u2019s education foundation, where she raised money for the career and technical education program, and then became the citizen chair for the district\u2019s 2014 bond and mill levy campaign to upgrade existing buildings and construct new ones, which was ultimately unsuccessful.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was after that that I had people in the community asking me to run for public office, and that\u2019s what led me to run for city council,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

In response to Rutinel\u2019s questions about her lack of Latino heritage last month, Bird countered with her deep roots in the district.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a longtime, years-long community volunteer well before I ever considered running for office,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd during my campaign, I understand and recognize how crucial the Latino community is in Colorado\u2019s 8th. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve prioritized community outreach to the Latino community, engaging with their small businesses, going to community events that I know are so important to Latinos in this district.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

She prided herself in visiting \u201call four corners\u201d of the vast district and knowing the voters there well.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s crucial that we know the people we want to represent,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m doing that work so that I can be ready on day one to be a representative who fights for you and is ready to go on day one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marie Valenzuela, a 72-year-old retired state employee who lives in Westminster, remembers Bird\u2019s husband knocking on her door during a campaign several years ago. When he couldn\u2019t answer all of Valenzuela\u2019s questions, she said, he called Bird and told her to come over. Soon, Bird herself was there on Valenzuela\u2019s doorstep with answers.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe takes time for people,\u201d Valenzuela said. \u201cShe\u2019s extremely responsive to her constituents.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Valenzuela finds Rutinel\u2019s insistence on his Latino heritage as a qualification for Congress offensive, she said. Valenzuela\u2019s family immigrated from Spain and she does not identify as Latino.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not sure that Manny is the person that can bring people together,\u201d she said. \u201cI heard him say Latinos need a voice and I will be that voice \u2014 but what about everyone else in the district? I think he needs to have broader appeal. Right now he\u2019s saying he\u2019s going to represent the 40% of people, but where does that leave the other 60%?\u201d<\/p>\n

Bird said she has endorsed many Latino candidates for office throughout her career, knocking on doors for them and supporting them financially. And she has delivered on priorities that the Latino community cares about, she said, including expanding Medicaid and the earned income tax credit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat people are looking for in this district is somebody who will fight back against the Trump administration, someone who knows this district, and when they get there, will actually do something and deliver for them,\u201d she said. \u201cI am the only candidate who has that track record.\u201d<\/p>\n

Colorado House Majority Leader Monica Duran, the highest ranking Latina in the statehouse, has endorsed Bird\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am the daughter and granddaughter of migrant farmworkers,\u201d Duran, who doesn\u2019t live in the 8th District, says in an ad for Bird. \u201cI understand the fight to have a seat at that table. We need a leader who will not only be at that table, but will also be a fighter for us. And that leader is Shannon Bird.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former state Senate Majority Leader Dominick Moreno, a Commerce City Democrat who now works for Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, said voters at least in the Adams County part of the district have traditionally favored candidates who grew up in the area or have lived there a long time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But he also thinks there is a pretty strong desire in the district to have a Latino representative in Congress.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a recurring theme that I\u2019ve heard from many folks,\u201d said Moreno, who hasn\u2019t endorsed a candidate.<\/p>\n

A shift to the middle on the campaign trail<\/h2>\n

Rutinel first got the attention of Thornton mayor pro tem Roberta Ayala after he brought a dish to share to a progressives\u2019 meetup in Thornton: vegan sausage. She said Rutinel kept showing up at events, trying to learn more about the community.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rutinel was a vegan who raised questions about the production and consumption of meat and dairy producers as a student activist and later as an attorney for the environmental legal group Earthjustice. Now, running to represent a district that is home to some of the nation\u2019s biggest meat and dairy producers, Rutinel said he eats meat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rutinel, whose voting record in the statehouse has been firmly more progressive than Bird\u2019s on issues like immigration, housing and drug policy, has moderated himself over the last year during the campaign, even reversing on earlier positions like a ban on fracking, canceling student debt and support for Medicare for All.<\/p>\n

Suniga, first chair of the 8th District\u2019s Democratic committee, said she has fielded questions from voters about Rutinel\u2019s change in positions since they came to light over the last few weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a concern,\u201d she said. \u201cPeople have called and asked, \u2018What is that going to do?\u2019 I think we just have to have faith in educating the community and learning about both candidates. You can look at both of their websites and see. It\u2019s unfortunate that that is happening. That\u2019s something his campaign and his team are going to have to take responsibility for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ayala said she hasn\u2019t spoken to Rutinel about his policy shifts but she\u2019s not concerned about them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI know Manny will stick by the community when it comes to making right decisions about clean water, clean air and good land use and represent the community,\u201d said Ayala, who also thinks Latino voters connect with candidates who have experience with immigration and growing up without generational wealth.<\/p>\n

Patricia Harry, a 75-year-old retired accountant from Westminster, supported Rutinel at a caucus meeting in March and is still supporting him. His Latino heritage is important to her, even though she is white, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still think we need more Hispanic representation,\u201d she said. \u201cThe minorities need to have a place in our government, and they don\u2019t really seem to now. It\u2019s all white men.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harry said she is concerned about Rutinel\u2019s reversal on progressive issues, but not enough to change her vote. If he changed his stances to win votes, she said, she is OK with that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope it\u2019s just because he wants to defeat Gabe Evans,\u201d she said. \u201cI believe he feels like he needs to be more moderate to get the votes, and I\u2019m not sure if that\u2019s where his true feelings are or not. I would hope he would vote in favor of those once elected.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jack Bohan, a 29-year-old data analyst in Westminster, is still leaning toward voting for Rutinel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe area I\u2019m in has a lot of Hispanic people,\u201d Bohan said. \u201cMe, personally, I don\u2019t really care about their race or gender, it\u2019s really about policy for me. I know people like to see their own heritage represented and I\u2019ve seen a million white men in positions of power so it\u2019s not important to me but it matters to other voters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bohan was concerned to learn about Rutinel\u2019s reversal on some progressive priorities. He called Rutinel\u2019s position on supporting military aid for Israel \u201ca little disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say Rutinel is still in the lead for me,\u201d he said. \u201cI wish politicians would stick to what they believe in for once. You can\u2019t have a Bernie Sanders in every district. Beating Gabe Evans is by far the most important thing. I still feel like Manny has a pretty good shot.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the Capitol, listening and fighting<\/h2>\n

At the state Capitol, some colleagues say Rutinel has shown a lot of energy, an ability to listen and willingness to fight but doesn\u2019t seem concerned whether he gets credit for legislation.<\/p>\n

This year, state Rep. Lorena Garcia, who lives in the district, said Rutinel agreed to fold his proposal to expand the tax credit to the elderly into another tax bill she was working on to help get the proposals passed.<\/p>\n

Garcia said she endorsed Rutinel late, only after being convinced he would protect vulnerable members of the community. If he doesn\u2019t follow through on his promises, she said voters can elect someone else in two years.<\/p>\n

She doesn\u2019t see Rutinel\u2019s position shifts on issues like fracking as a problem but a sign that he\u2019s learning and listening to his community.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he\u2019ll stay strong fighting for community and putting people first,\u201d Garcia said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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