Manny Rutinel
Background
- Represented House District 32 in Adams County in the Colorado legislature until he resigned on September 4, 2026.
- His campaign says he is an attorney with a law degree from Yale and a master's in economics from Johns Hopkins, and that he was an economist for the Army Corps of Engineers.
- His campaign says he grew up with a single immigrant mother, worked at McDonald's in high school and saw his family's home foreclosed in the Great Recession.
What they say they want to do
- Lower costs: expand tax credits for working parents, make billionaires pay what they owe and close corporate loopholes.
- Let Medicare negotiate more drug prices and cap insulin at 35 dollars a month for everyone.
- Block any cut to Social Security or Medicare and any rise in the retirement age.
- Ban stock trading by members of Congress, reverse Citizens United and take no corporate PAC money.
- Rules for ICE agents, including no masks, body cameras and judicial orders, and a path to citizenship for long-time residents and Dreamers.
What the official record shows
- Prime sponsor of HB24-1134, signed into law, which raised Colorado's earned income tax credit to 50% of the federal credit for 2024.
- Prime sponsor of SB24-081, signed into law, which bars sale of several product types with intentionally added PFAS from 2026.
- Prime sponsor of HB24-1338, signed into law, which creates a state environmental justice office and requires refineries to report emissions in real time.
- Prime sponsor of SB25-006, signed into law, which lets the State Treasurer invest up to fifty million dollars in bonds for affordable for-sale housing.
- Cosponsor of SB25-276, signed into law, on protecting people's civil rights regardless of immigration status.
Campaign money from other committees, by type
| Leadership PACs 11 committees | $37,000 |
|---|---|
| Labor Organization PACs 5 committees | $22,500 |
| Transfers and contributions from joint fundraising committees 1 committee | $18,350 |
| Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Qualified 3 committees | $12,500 |
| PAC - Qualified 3 committees | $8,000 |
| Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Nonqualified 2 committees | $7,000 |
| House 3 committees | $4,000 |
| Committees the FEC records no type for 5 committees | $1,600 |
| Membership Organization PACs 1 committee | $50 |
Source: Federal Election Commission
Money from committees in the 2025-2026 filings through June 30, 2026: lines 11B (party committees), 11C (other political committees) and 12 (transfers from joint fundraising committees), grouped by the FEC's record of the giving committee. Memo entries are left out because they repeat money counted elsewhere. Each line adds up to the campaign's own filed total. The rows sum to 111,000.20 dollars, part of what the campaign raised. Donations people made through ActBlue or WinRed are individual contributions and are not in this table.