Hundreds Turn Out To Demand Accountability From Absent Rep. Gabe Evans

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Saturday, March 22, 2025
CONTACT: Sara Loflin, ProgressNow Colorado at 303-349-1617 or sara@progressnowcolorado.org

NORTHGLENN: As the Trump 2.0 administration’s destructive agenda rolls on and freshman far-right Rep. Gabe Evans refuses to show his face to constituents demanding answers, hundreds of worried residents from across Evans’ district joined with leading statewide progressive advocacy organizations including TWN Indivisible, Working Families Power, Cobalt, Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition Action Fund, and ProgressNow Colorado to host a town hall across the street from Evans’ Northglenn office to call out Rep Evans’ excuses for the DOGEing of essential federal institutions, the mass firing of federal workers across Colorado and the nation, and devastating impending cuts to vital social safety nets like Medicaid.

“We organized this event as a response to Congressman Evans’ lack of responsiveness. For weeks, we’ve been asking him to host a town hall,” said Jacob Stevens, one of the residents who invited Evans to the People’s Town Hall in a hand-delivered letter on March 12th. “We want him to speak to the people he represents about our concerns, especially regarding the House budget which he voted to approve. This budget will result in massive cuts to Medicaid benefits, effecting a quarter of his constituents. Those people deserve to be heard by their representative.”

“Representative Gabe Evans doesn’t get to cherry-pick which constituents he represents and which communities deserve clean air. Whether I voted for him or not, it’s his job to represent me — or at the very least, to show up,” said Sarah Tresedder, a Sherrelwood resident and Sierra Club organizer. “My concerns matter. My asthma isn’t a ‘paid activist.’ I can’t breathe. Our kids can’t breathe. We need elected officials who actually give a damn — who will fight for stronger air quality protections and defend the funding we need, like the Inflation Reduction Act, to transition away from the industries that are choking us out.”

“I was born in Northglenn, graduated high school in Thornton and own my first home in Westminster, District 8 is my home,” said Westminster resident Jana Hope. “The Trump administration is threatening the jobs, health, education and safety. Gabe Evans has done nothing but stand by in support of these attacks on his constituents. Every day that he ignores our concerns, refuses to talk with us, and votes against us is a slap in the face.”

“El Congresista Gabe Evans está atacando nuestra comunidad Latina al decir que todos los inmigrantes somos criminales. A pesar de que su propio abuelo fue indocumentado, el congresista nos está usando como excusa para justificar sus recortes de Medicaid y otros servicios importantes para nuestras comunidades. Nosotros merecemos un congresista sin prejuicios que nos apoyo en vez de perjudicarnos. No es justo que el congresista use sus redes sociales para atacar nuestras comunidades constantemente, causando terror. Me causa mucha tristeza ver como ataca a gente que solo vino a trabajar y buscar un mejor futuro.” –Rosi Gasca, residente de Westminster

“Gabe Evans won’t show his face to his constituents, so the people of Evans’ district organized their own town hall to demand better representation,” said ProgressNow Colorado executive director Sara Loflin. “Evans was invited to come to Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church across the street from his Northglenn office in writing, then falsely claimed to have never been invited. But the residents of Evans’ district have no patience for game-playing while hundreds of thousands of Coloradans face the loss of their health coverage and thousands of vital federal workers lose their jobs.”

“Gabe Evans is showing every day that the only person he is loyal to is Donald Trump,” said Loflin. “Colorado’s most competitive and diverse congressional district deserves better than a loyal lapdog for Trump. Evans touted his appointment to the committee in charge of cutting $880 billion from Medicaid, and now his constituents will pay the price.”