Danny directs the operations of CoPIRG and it is a voice that is leading Denver and throughout the state to boost transportation, end identity theft, increase consumer defenses, to get a lot of money away from our elections. Danny has spearheaded efforts to electrify Colorado’s transport systems, and co-authored a groundbreaking report regarding the state’s transportation, walking and biking needs over the following 25 years. Danny additionally acts from the Colorado Department of Transportation’s effectiveness and Accountability Committee and Transit and Rail Advisory Committee, and it is a founding person in the Financial Equity Coalition, an accumulation of general public, private, and nonprofit businesses focused on bringing economic protection to communities throughout Colorado. He resides in Denver together with his family members, where he enjoys cycling and skiing, the area food scene and increasing chickens.

You might not have heard for the Office of this Comptroller for the money but this agency that is federal proposing a guideline that will enable banking institutions to disregard the might of Coloradans and bypass our state customer defenses using a “rent-a-bank” scheme that could enable predatory, triple-digit APR loans once more in Colorado.

With remarks with this bad guideline due today, i am thrilled to announce that an easy coalition or businesses, along side help from customer champions in the legislature, is pressing straight straight back.

In 2018, CoPIRG caused a coalition that is diverse shut a loophole inside our customer security statutes that allowed predatory lenders to charge charges and interest on pay day loans that added as much as triple-digit APRs. (more…)