"He is unstoppable": Colorado Rep Joe Neguse looks like the next generation of Democratic leadership

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"He is unstoppable": Colorado Rep. Joe Neguse looks like the next generation of Democratic leadership


Andrew Romanoff introduced Joe Neguse, a friend and former employee, to a room full of Democratic voters in 2008 by saying: One day we will all be working for Joe.

The people gathered at the 2008 assembly chuckled, but the endorsement from Romanoff, who was then speaker of the Colorado House, helped launch the then-24-year-old law school student down a path of public service that started with his election that year to the University of Colorado's Board of Regents and recently led him to Washington as the new representative for Colorado's 2nd District.

Neguse was the second-youngest regent ever elected in Colorado, and he became one of the youngest people in the country to serve in a state Cabinet after Gov. John Hickenlooper appointed him to head Colorado's consumer protection agency. He's now the first African-American to represent Colorado in Congress and an early leader in his freshman class.

And friends say he's nowhere close to done.

"Joe has this uncanny ability to bring people together and to really help manage personality differences," said Rep. Leslie Herod, D-Denver. "People are attracted to him for it, and in that way he is unstoppable."

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