COMPAC Announces Candidate Endorsements

Saturday, October 20, 2012 12:38 PM

The Colorado Medical Political Action Committee, or COMPAC, has endorsed 82 candidates for state and federal office this year. Physicians and all friends of medicine are encouraged to consider these recommendations and, above all, be sure to vote. For help identifying the candidates running in your district, visit the “Who’s my legislator?” link on the CMS home page.

COMPAC does not endorse based on political party. Instead, endorsements are made following a screening process that takes into account the views of the local medical community, the position of a candidate or incumbent on medical issues important to the medical society, the demographics of the district and a candidate’s ability to win. Read the full candidate briefing document here.

COMPAC instituted the local physician screening process in the 2006 election cycle and several hundred physicians have participated in the process since then. This has proven instrumental in developing relationships between local constituent physicians and members of the Colorado Legislature.

For more insight into the CMS political process, be sure to read two articles from the upcoming issue of Colorado Medicine magazine. The Final Word written by COMPAC Chair Dave Ross, DO, and the Executive Office Update written by CMS CEO Alfred Gilchrist.

For more information about COMPAC click here.