Get to know Lawrence Joseph Martinez, candidate for mayor in the April 4, 2023 Colorado Springs city election. Interviewers are Sixty35 Media Executive Editor Bryan Grossman and League of Women Voters of the Pikes Peak Region communication lead Julie Ott. We fact-checked every interview; see the results below.
This is one of the 23 interviews conducted with candidates for mayor and city council (two were unavailable). We published them all on March 8 (ballots will be mailed to voters on March 10). You can view these conversations on YouTube here.
FACT-CHECK:
Candidate says “Springs Rescue Mission in 2020 spent over $4 million in wages, they only put out 3.25 and services. Well, if you take a look at that, my goodness, that’s like a business, you’re making a better profit than some of the private businesses. So, we need to take a look and bring them all together.”
Springs Rescue Mission – Detailed financials and community impact can be found here https://www.springsrescuemission.org/finances/
We’ll follow up with episodes replaying five candidate forums co-sponsored by Sixty35 Media March 9 – 21. A special thanks to the League of Women Voters of the Pikes Peak Region for partnering with Sixty35 Media on these episodes, and for organizing the candidate forums. Attend the forums in person, view the livestream, or view/listen later to them as episodes of Sixty35 Vote – on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. Find the forum schedule and livestream links here.
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