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John Padora

Education

  • Bachelor of Science, BS, Environmental Science and Geo-Spatial Technology, 2016-2019

  • Associate of Science, AS, Computer Aided Manufacturing/Machine Tool Technology, Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology, 2007-2009

Professional Experience

  • Manufacturing Engineer, KMM Group, December 2020 - present

  • CNC/Machine Shop Supervisor, Fluid Conditioning Products, Inc., April 2016 - December 2020

  • CNC Milling, Lead Machinist, Diversified Machine, Inc., January 2014 - February 2016

  • Additional professional experiences include various CNC Machinist positions and Machinist Apprentice, May 2008 - April 2012.

Why Running

I’m John Padora—working dad, engineer, and the bold Democrat ready to defeat Lauren Boebert. I’m running to give working families a real voice again - to fight for people, not the elites, and to take our country back from the politicians who sold it out.

Policy Positions

  • Tax Fairness: Close corporate loopholes and implement a fair tax on extreme wealth while ending tax breaks for price‑gouging companies, using the savings to lower everyday costs and enforce results‑driven budgeting.

  • Manufacturing: Rebuild American manufacturing by investing in high‑tech industries, reshoring critical supply chains, and offering incentives that create skilled, good‑paying jobs and protect workers from unfair trade practices.

  • Rural Communities: Strengthen rural communities through major investments in broadband, infrastructure, schools, and workforce training while ensuring fair markets and protections for family farms.

  • Social Security: Protect and expand Social Security by lifting the payroll tax cap, opposing benefit cuts or retirement‑age increases, and safeguarding disability and survivor benefits.

  • Foreign Policy: Lead with diplomacy instead of endless military intervention, reduce wasteful defense spending, deepen global cooperation, and fully support veterans through strong VA healthcare and mental health services.

  • Government Integrity: Restore trust in government by banning corporate PAC money, instituting term limits, and enforcing strict accountability for insider trading.

  • Healthcare: Expand access to affordable care through a public option, lower prescription drug costs, strengthen rural healthcare, and eliminate surprise medical billing.

  • Drug Policy & Public Health: Legalize marijuana federally, decriminalize non‑violent possession, treat substance use disorder as a public health issue, and invest in treatment, recovery, and expungement of low‑level convictions.

  • Clean Energy & Climate Action: Accelerate the transition to renewable, community‑owned clean energy to lower costs, create jobs, and ensure long‑term American energy independence.

  • Education: Make community college and trade programs tuition‑free, invest in strong public K–12 schools, relieve predatory student debt, and expand pathways to upward mobility.

  • Water: Secure federal investment for modern water systems, protect water supplies from contamination and overuse, and ensure fair, sustainable access to this essential resource.

  • Agriculture: Support farmers with fair pricing, anti‑monopoly protections, crop insurance, conservation programs, rural water infrastructure, and investments that empower the next generation of producers.

  • Reproductive Healthcare: Codify nationwide access to reproductive choice, protect affordable reproductive healthcare, and oppose efforts to restrict or ban abortion.

  • Constitutional Rights: Uphold responsible gun ownership for law‑abiding citizens, defend free speech and digital privacy, and ensure due process and equal protection under the law.

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