Jerry Frangas

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Jerry Frangas

Member of the Colorado House of Representatives from the 4th district
Incumbent
Assumed office January 8, 2003^[1]

Born	October 24, 1966 (1966-10-24) (age 41) Denver, Colorado^[2]
Political party	Democratic
Profession	social worker
Religion	Christian^[2]

K. Jerry Frangas (born October 24, 1966^[2]) is a legislator from the U.S. state of Colorado. Elected to the Colorado House of Representatives as a Democrat in 2002, Frangas represents House District 4, which encompasses northwest Denver, Colorado.^[3]

1 Early career
2 Legislative career
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Early career

Born in Denver, Colorado^[2], Frangas earned a bachelor's degree in political science and then completed a master of public administration degree^[4] from Cleveland State University in 1995. He worked as a clinical coordinator for the Central Shelter for Homeless Working Men in Denver from 1995 to 1997 then worked as a caseworker for Douglas County Human services from 1997 to 2000. At the same time, he earned a bachelor's degree in social work from Metropolitan State College of Denver in 1998 and a master of social work degree from the University of Denver in 2000.^[2] Since 2000,^[2] Frangas has worked as a senior caseworker for the Denver Department of Human Services and has been an adjunct instructor in the social work department at Metro State.^[4]

Frangas and his wife, Gregoria have three children: Blaine, Gabriella and Warren.^[4] Within the Denver community, he has served as president of the North Denver Neighbors Alliance and a board member of the West Highlands Neighborhood Association.^[2]

[edit] Legislative career

Frangas was first elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2002 and has been re-elected twice since then, each time defeating Republican opponent Rick Nevin by a more than a 3:1 margin.^[3]

[edit] 2007 legislative session

In the 2007 session of the Colorado General Assembly, Frangas sat on the House Finance Committee and was the Vice-Chairman of the House Health and Human Services Committee.^[5].

In 2007, Frangas, after failing to find a cab in downtown Denver on New Years' Eve,^[6] sponsored a bill to deregulate the taxicab industry in Colorado to allow for greater competition between taxicab companies. The bill was weakened in committee to change the way taxi companies lease to taxi drivers.^[7]^[8]

Frangas was also one of only a few Democrats to oppose a plan by Governor Bill Ritter to freeze property tax rates in order to increase public school funding;^[9] he unsuccessfully proposed that Denver schools receive additional funds from the state that would instead be provided via the property tax freeze.^[10]^[11]

[edit] 2008 legislative session

In the 2008 session of the Colorado General Assembly, Frangas sits on the House Finance Committee and is vice-chairman of the House Health and Human Services Committee. ^[12]

[edit] 2008 election

Although he was rumored not to be running again, Frangas will stand for a fourth term in the legislature in November 2008. He is expected to face Russell Greear in the Democratic primary.^[13]

[edit] References

^ House Journal - January 8, 2003 (pdf). Colorado General Assembly. Retrieved on 2007-11-19.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Representative Frangas (html). Project Vote Smart. Retrieved on 2007-12-21.
^ ^a ^b State House District 4 (html). COMaps. Retrieved on 2007-12-21.
^ ^a ^b ^c Colorado House Democrats: Jerry Frangas (HD 4)
^ House Committees of Reference (html). Colorado General Assembly. Retrieved on 2007-12-11.
^ Green light for cabbies : Editorials : The Rocky Mountain News
^ http://www.denverpost.com//ci_5552510
^ http://www.denverpost.com//ci_5573010
^ http://www.denverpost.com//ci_5760251
^ http://www.denverpost.com//ci_6888400
^ http://www.denverpost.com//ci_6866274
^ House Committees of Reference (html). Colorado General Assembly. Retrieved on 2008-01-19.
^ http://www.denverpost.com//ci_6495424

[edit] External links

Legislative web site

Current members of the Colorado House of Representatives
1^st: Jeanne Labuda (D) 2^nd: Mark Ferrandino (D) 3^rd: Anne McGihon (D) 4^th: Jerry Frangas (D) 5^th: Joel Judd (D) 6^th: Andrew Romanoff (D) 7^th: Terrance Carroll (D) 8^th: Rosemary Marshall (D) 9^th: Alice Borodkin (D) 10^th: Alice Madden (D) 11^th: John Pommer (D) 12^th: Paul Weissmann (D) 13^th: Claire Levy (D) 14^th: Kent Lambert (R) 15^th: Douglas Bruce (R) 16^th: Larry Liston (R)	17^th: Stella Garza-Hicks (R) 18^th: Michael Merrifield (D) 19^th: Marsha Looper (R) 20^th: Amy Stephens (R) 21^st: Bob Gardner (R) 22^nd: Ken Summers (R) 23^rd: Gwyn Green (D) 24^th: Cheri Jahn (D) 25^th: Robert Witwer (R) 26^th: Andy Kerr (D) 27^th: Sara Gagliardi (D) 28^th: James Kerr (R) 29^th: Debbie Benefield (D) 30^th: Mary Hodge (D) 31^st: Judith Anne Solano (D) 32^nd: Edward Casso (D)	33^rd: Dianne Primavera (D) 34^th: John Soper (D) 35^th: Cherylin Peniston (D) 36^th: Morgan Carroll (D) 37^th: Spencer Swalm (R) 38^th: Joe Rice (D) 39^th: David Balmer (R) 40^th: Debbie Stafford (D) 41^st: Nancy Todd (D) 42^nd: Karen Middleton (D) 43^rd: Frank McNulty (R) 44^th: Mike May (R) 45^th: Victor Mitchell (R) 46^th: Dorothy Butcher (D) 47^th: Liane McFayden (D) 48^th: Glenn Vaad (R)	49^th: Kevin Lundberg (R) 50^th: Jim Riesberg (D) 51^st: Don Marostica (R) 52^nd: John Kefalas (D) 53^rd: Randy Fischer (D) 54^th: Steve King (R) 55^th: Bernie Buescher (D) 56^th: Christine Scanlan (D) 57^th: Albert White (R) 58^th: Raymond Rose (R) 59^th: Ellen Roberts (R) 60^th: Thomas Massey (R) 61^st: Kathleen Curry (D) 62^nd: Rafael Gallegos (D) 63^rd: Cory Gardner (R) 64^th: Wesley McKinley (D) 65^th: Jerry Sonnenberg (R)
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