Lawrence Joseph Martinez - Mayoral Candidate

Learn more about Lawrence Joseph Martinez, candidate for mayor in the April 4, 2023 Colorado Springs city election. League of Women Voters of the Pikes Peak Region communication lead Julie Ott teamed with Sixty35 Media Executive Editor Bryan Grossman to have this conversation. Sixty35 Media fact-checked every interview; see the results below.
 
This is one of the 23 interviews conducted with candidates for mayor and city council (two were unavailable). We published them all on March 10 (ballots will be mailed to voters on March 10).
 
FACT-CHECK:

Candidate says “Springs Rescue Mission in 2020 spent over $4 million in wages, they only put out 3.25 and services. Well, if you take a look at that, my goodness, that's like a business, you're making a better profit than some of the private businesses. So, we need to take a look and bring them all together.”
 
Springs Rescue Mission – Detailed financials and community impact can be found here https://www.springsrescuemission.org/finances/
 
We’ll follow up with episodes replaying five candidate forums hosted by LWVPPR. A special thanks to the Sixty35 Media for partnering with us on these episodes, and for streaming the candidate forums. Attend the forums in person, view the livestream, or view/listen later to them as episodes of Making Democracy Work wherever you get your podcasts. Find the forum schedule and livestream links at https://lwvppr.org/

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