Openly gay Congressman
Jared Polis, 42,
has announced that he is running to become Governor of Colorado. Polis has represented a Boulder-area Congressional district (CO-02) since 2007 and is one of the wealthiest members of the U.S. House, with assets estimated in the $400 million range. If elected to succeed termed-out
John Hickenlooper in 2018, he would become the first openly gay governor of a state, although
Kate Brown of Oregon is
the nation's first elected LGBT governor (
she is bisexual). Brown was Oregon's Secretary of State when the previous governor resigned and then won election as the incumbent governor. Polis' task of winning a competitive election as an openly LGBT person to become chief executive of a state would be a landmark achievement.
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