Tracy Kraft-Tharp

Tracy Kraft-Tharp[2] is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Colorado House of Representatives representing District 29 since January 9, 2013. Kraft-Tharp is a member of the League of Women Voters.

Tracy Kraft-Tharp
Kraft-Tharp in 2020
Member of the Colorado House of Representatives
from the 29th[1] district
Assumed office
January 9, 2013
Preceded byRobert Ramirez
Personal details
NationalityAmerican
Political partyDemocratic
ProfessionProfessor
Websitetracyforstaterep.com

Biography

Kraft-Tharp represents House District 29, which includes northeastern Arvada and part of Westminster. She was elected in the 2012 election.

In the 2014 session, Kraft-Tharp supported legislation to extend the job growth incentive tax credit to attract new businesses to the state.[3] She also passed legislation to extend the ReHire Colorado program through 2017.[4] The program provides job coaching and training to unemployed and underemployed Coloradans.[5] She also sponsored legislation creating a suicide prevention task force to reduce the rate of suicide in Colorado.[6]

During the 2013 legislative session she sponsored the Advanced Industries Export Acceleration Act, which assists Colorado companies looking to export their products globally.[7]

Kraft-Tharp started her career as a middle school teacher, later becoming a youth counselor and social worker.[8] She became the manager of the Women in Crisis battered women's shelter in Jefferson County and now has her own small consulting business.

She has served on a number of boards including the City of Arvada Citizens Improvement Project Committee, the Urban Peak Housing Corporation and the Jefferson County School District Strategic Planning and Advisory Council.[9]

Kraft-Tharp received her law degree and a masters in social work from the University of Denver.

Elections

  • 2012 To challenge incumbent Republican Representative Robert Ramirez for the District 29 seat, Kraft-Tharp was unopposed for the June 26, 2012 Democratic Primary, winning with 2,664 votes;[10] and won the three-way November 6, 2012 General election with 19,368 votes (51.3%) against Representative Ramirez and Libertarian candidate Hans Romer,[11] who had run for the seat in 2002.
gollark: Yes. Governments make regulations which are wrong, when they could simply put me in charge of all operations and be right.
gollark: I believe the US is currently looking to regulate cryptocurrency more, although I forgot exactly how.
gollark: Also, due to technical quirks, they often aren't as decentralized as often claimed. But nobody seems to care very much about this.
gollark: Yet people don't care about learning and don't do it and do gambling.
gollark: It's not particularly hard, in my opinion, to learn basic things about probability and expected value and such. It's difficult to *internalize* them and use them all the time, but gambling is a situation which is obviously bound by them and in which you can use formal mathematical reasoning easily.

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