Outnumbered but not outmatched: House Minority Leader Pugliese’s grassroots push
By Jen Schumann | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice
At the Colorado Capitol, House Republicans are outnumbered two to one. But House Minority Leader Rose Pugliese is still swinging—and she’s not swinging blindly.
She’s drawing from somewhere real.
“My father started his life with 50 cents in his pocket and a dream to own his own restaurant.” Pugliese added, “Almost every day it feels like I’m back to having spare change and a big dream—only this time it’s at the legislature.”
The daughter of Italian immigrants, Pugliese was the first woman in her family to graduate from college.
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She now juggles two jobs, the House minority leadership and single parenthood—raising two children on her own, including a ...