ICYMI: Evans Can’t Defend Domestic Abuser Donations, SNAP Cuts

COMMERCE CITY, CO–Congressman Gabe Evans can’t defend his record. This week alone, Evans refused to return thousands in campaign cash from donors facing allegations of domestic abuse and child sexual exploitation and wouldn’t answer why he cut SNAP, taking food away from nearly 100,000 hungry Coloradans in his district.

It’s no wonder his former voters are turning to Manny Rutinel. In case you missed it:

CTR: Gabe Evans Won’t Say if He’ll Return Donations from Disgraced Republican

• U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO) received $5,000 in donations from the political action committee tied to the congressman at the heart of a growing domestic violence scandal.
• Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) has been accused by his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, of holding a gun to her head and throwing hot water at her.
• Miller couldn’t say when he last used illegal drugs and … [posted] a partially nude photo of his toddler.
• Neither Evans’ reelection campaign nor his congressional press office responded to an email request for comment on the allegations against Miller or on whether he plans to return the donations.
• Miller isn’t the only disgraced Republican to have donated to Evans’ reelection. Evans received $1,000 from Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) …the House Ethics Committee …found “substantial reason to believe Representative Edwards violated House Rules related to sexual harassment and hostile workplaces.”
• Evans received $5,000 in donations from the Honor Courage Commitment PAC affiliated with former Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX), who admitted to having an affair with a married staffer who later died by self-immolation.

9News: Republican Congressman Gabe Evans sidesteps questions on SNAP benefit losses at an event with the agriculture secretary.

• “There are about 90,000 people in your Congressional District who receive SNAP benefits. How many do you think, or do you expect to lose these food benefits? And why is that a positive for taxpayers?” Zelinger asked.
• Between the May 2025 event about Medicaid and Tuesday’s event where Evans was asked about SNAP, he did not answer how many were at risk of losing coverage.
• Being able to ask those questions, though, is more than many of his constituents can claim. Evans has held telephone town halls, but nothing in person.
• For the third time in six weeks, Colorado Congressman Gabe Evans met with a member of President Donald Trump’s cabinet. Meeting in person with his own constituents is not as easy.

NYT: ‘Shame!’: An ICE Facility Roils a Tiny Town, With a House Seat in Play

• “Diana and Ernesto Cruz, who live in nearby Fort Lupton, Colo., voted Republican in 2024 after being fed up with inflation and scenes of chaos along the southern border. But they said Mr. Trump’s crackdown had gone too far, and they did not want an ICE detention center down the road.”
• “They are planning to vote for Mr. Rutinel in November. ‘There are more important things,’ Mr. Cruz said on Wednesday, as he parked his big-rig truck outside the couple’s American flag-draped home.”