Sal Pace
| Sal Pace | |
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| Member of the Colorado House of Representatives from the 46th district |
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In office January 7, 2009 – November 6, 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Dorothy Butcher |
| Succeeded by | Leroy Garcia |
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December 14, 1976 New London, Connecticut |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Marlene Valdez Pace |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Sal Pace (born December 14, 1976) is a County Commissioner in Pueblo County, Colorado and is a former American legislator from the U.S. state of Colorado. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2008, Pace represented House District 46, which encompasses western Pueblo, Colorado from 2008 to 2012. During his time at the statehouse, Pace was elected as the Colorado House minority leader. In 2012, he ran against incumbent congressman Republican Scott Tipton in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District, although Tipton was ultimately re-elected.
He and his wife, Marlene Valdez Pace, live in Pueblo, Colorado with their three children.
Pace, the youngest of nine children, moved to Colorado as a teenager. He attended Fort Lewis College, where he majored in political science and was appointed by the State Board of Agriculture to serve on a search committee for a Fort Lewis College president. He then attended Louisiana State University, earning a master's degree in American Political Theory.
Pace has taught American government at Pueblo Community College and CSU-Pueblo. He has also served on the Pueblo City Schools (D60) Strategic Plan Core Team, as an organizer for Enable America, as a Colorado Democratic Party Regional Director in 2002, and is a member of Sons of Italy of Southern Colorado.
Pace served as a legislative aide to State Representative John Salazar in the Colorado House of Representatives, where he worked on water and health care legislation. When Salazar was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, Pace continued to work for him, as a District Director, a Congressional staffer, and as the manager of Salazar's 2006 re-election campaign.
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