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U.S. House, District 7: who gets your vote?

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Candidate
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Tim Bennett

Running for U.S. House · Colorado District 7

NationalRepublican

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Brittany Pettersen

Brittany Pettersen

U.S. House · Colorado District 7

NationalDemocrat

Tim BennettCandidateBrittany PettersenCurrent rep

Job fit

Tim Bennett

Offices held

  • Tim Bennett is a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel 1

Brittany Pettersen

Education

  • She earned a bachelor’s degree at Metropolitan State University of Denver 2

Top issues

Ranked by what Americans say matters most (Pew, 2026)

Tim Bennett

  • Health care costs
    Platform says Medicare and Medicaid should be strengthened through fraud reduction, price transparency, and competition rather than expansion, adding "by resisting a full federal takeover, we keep decisions closer to the people." 3
  • Cost of living & jobs
    Platform calls for "rebuilding critical manufacturing here at home" and using trade policy "to counter unfair market practices that hurt our nation's workers." 3
  • Guns
    Campaign material says he "is a firm defender of the right to keep and bear arms" and that weakening the Second Amendment "only leaves families defenseless, not safer." 4
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Brittany Pettersen

No stated positions on file yet.

How they voted on top issues

Tim Bennett

Nothing found for this candidate yet.

Brittany Pettersen

  • What kids are taught in school → Teachers deciding, with lessons that include everyone (4 of 4 votes) 5
  • Fair trade and prices at the store → Free trade and lower tariffs (3 of 3 votes) 5
  • Abortion and reproductive care → Protecting access (2 of 2 votes) 5

Who pays them

Tim Bennett

Where the campaign money came from6

small donorslarge donors
small donors$3Klarge donors$22K$26K raised
$3,4826Small individual donors
$21,6846Large individual donors

Brittany Pettersen

Where the campaign money came from7

small donorslarge donorscompaniesindustry associationsmembership organizationsOther kinds of donors
small donors$186Klarge donors$651Kcompanies$531Kindustryassociations$230Kmembershiporganizations$82KOther kinds ofdonors$173K$1.9M raised
$186,3927Small individual donors
$650,8657Large individual donors

Checks

Tim Bennett

No voting record to check yet

Brittany Pettersen

Checks run: missed votes

🚩 Missed 15.4% of votes in Congress — the chamber's usual rate is 1.9%. 8

Not checked yet: stock trades

About red flags

These are Voter Choice's editorial choices, not a finding about any person. We flag: stock trading while in office, absences, money's influence in politics, and reported misuse of power or public funds. State and local items may come from local news, which can lean partisan. Take with a grain of salt. The judgment is yours.

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Sources

  1. Meet Tim (retrieved text extract, 2026-10-19) · checked 2026-10-19 used in: Experience
  2. Biography | U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen (retrieved text extract, 2026-10-19) · checked 2026-10-19 used in: Experience
  3. timbennettforcongress.com used in: Top issues
  4. ballotready.org used in: Top issues
  5. Congress.gov roll-call votes · 2022-11-04 to 2026-11-04 used in: How they voted on top issues
  6. FEC · 2026 cycle used in: Money
  7. FEC · 2026 cycle used in: Money
  8. GovTrack · 119th Congress used in: Checks
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Candidate A

Tim Bennett

RepublicanShown above

🚩 No federal record yet. Campaign money: $26K raised, 83% from large donors, 4% from organized interests. Group breakdown unavailable. The filed PAC total is known, but its givers have not been identified here.
Filed PAC total: $999.00 (4% of $26,164.40 raised), 2026 cycle. Group source

Says they are for: leaving health care to the market, tougher sentences and more police, a tighter border and stricter enforcement.

Sources

1 Background: Meet Tim (retrieved text extract, 2026-10-19) · checked 2026-10-19

2 The money: FEC · 2026 cycle

3 leaving health care to the market: Candidate statement

4 tougher sentences and more police: Candidate statement

5 a tighter border and stricter enforcement: Candidate statement

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Candidate B

Dan "Kilo" Sallis

Libertarian

We don't have campaign money records for this race yet.

Sources

1 Background: 7th Congressional District third-party candidates (retrieved text extract, 2026-10-19) · checked 2026-10-19

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Joe Krzeczkowski
Candidate C

Joe Krzeczkowski

Independent

We don't have campaign money records for this race yet.

Sources

1 Background: 7th Congressional District third-party candidates (retrieved text extract, 2026-10-19) · checked 2026-10-19

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Candidate D

Lawrence Kyle Clark

Constitution

We don't have campaign money records for this race yet.

Sources

1 Background: 7th Congressional District third-party candidates (retrieved text extract, 2026-10-19) · checked 2026-10-19

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Candidate E

Susan Hall

Unity Party

We don't have campaign money records for this race yet.

Sources

1 Background: 7th Congressional District third-party candidates (retrieved text extract, 2026-10-19) · checked 2026-10-19

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Brittany Pettersen
Candidate F

Brittany Pettersen

DemocratShown above

🚩 $1.9M raised, 34% from large donors, 52% from organized interests. Group amounts exceed the filed PAC total. These sources do not reconcile; no complete split or remainder is claimed.
Filed PAC total: $997,205.47 (52% of $1,914,997.56 raised), 2026 cycle.
Named group amounts (not a complete filed split): $1,015,640.00, Group filing cutoff unavailable. Group source

🚩 Missed 15.4% of votes in Congress — the chamber's usual rate is 1.9%.

Their votes pushed for: cutting pollution and moving to clean energy, more legal ways in, and protection for people already here, government spending and worker protections.

Sources

1 Background: Biography | U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen (retrieved text extract, 2026-10-19) · checked 2026-10-19

2 The money: FEC · 2026 cycle

3 Attendance: GovTrack · 119th Congress

4 Roll calls: Congress.gov roll-call votes · 2022-11-04 to 2026-11-04

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