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| Name | Tim Kubik |
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Fort Collins, Colorado , United States |
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| Info | I grew up in 9 different communities before I was nine, starting with my dad’s service as a US Navy officer and continuing until we settled in Iowa. Indeed, though I’ve only been in Colorado for twenty years, its the longest I’ve lived anywhere.
Thanks to my mom’s education career, I’ve been a teacher for eleven years and an education coach for the last 15 years. I’ve helped schools and districts form sustainable learning community partnerships in 49 states and 14 countries. I’m always up for new challenges in new communities, and that’s why I’m running for State Party Chair.
The last 15 years as a consultant gave me more time to volunteer with our Party. I started as the Colorado Volunteer Coordinator for Bill Richardson for President in 2007. I canvassed for Bill in Iowa and went to the Obama war room in 2008 as the Incoming Call Center Director and then as a Regional Field Organizer. From there, I joined the Larimer Dems and served as an HD and SD Chair while running tough turf grassroots campaigns in HD49 and flipping the Thompson School Board in 2015. In my last four years, I’ve chaired the Colorado Democratic Education Initiative, growing membership and raising funds necessary to support education Democrats in tough turf races. I learned to organize, educate, and engage the grassroots, and those will be the three watchwords as Chair.
Organize
Organization is the key to everything we do. I’ve been a school leader, a nationally recognized education facilitator, and the Chair of two non-profit organizations in Colorado (the Colorado Division of the UN Association and the Coalition Against Global Genocide). Without grassroots organization aimed at action, our efforts struggle to get off the ground or alternate between cycles of inactivity and intensity that often burn out volunteers. While our Party is strong, there are improvements we can make. The job of a leader is not to make the hard work easy but to make it easier to do the hard work. I am aware of and ready for the challenges ahead.
Educate
I’m an educator in politics because politics is about education. Educators, at their best, don’t presume to know the answers students need but learn their individual questions to help develop diverse solutions. As a Party, we’re also at our best when we understand what our voters are asking and help them build the diverse answers necessary to win. The CDP has succeeded in developing solutions to questions Coloradans are asking. I’m also aware that we have work to do in swing districts, rural and underserved areas of our state, and even among many in our own Party.
Engage
Our Party faces many challenges in the next few years, but we need engaged and empowered volunteer energy to address these. Empowerment starts with you! Engagement begins with welcoming diverse perspectives into the conversation. I want those who feel on the outside actively engaging our Party rather than organizing alternatives. Anyone actively engaging our Party is doing so because they care deeply and want to help. This empowered engagement will help us win critical school board and county commissioner races in 2023, Presidential and legislative races in 2024, and top ticket races as we look to a new generation of leadership in 2026.
Staying united under one banner will be most important through all these challenges. To do that, our Party has to be about all of us and all we do to win elections. Join us, and we will!
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Tim lives west of Berthoud in south Larimer County with his wife, Nancy, who is Associate Provost for Academic Affairs at the University of Northern Colorado. He has two children, Gwen an electronic dance artist in Denver, and Sophie a senior at Amherst College in Massachusetts. He and his family enjoy politics, but can just as often be seen hiking, cross-country skiing, or cooking when together.
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