Dave Chandler

Dave Chandler and his family have made their home in Arvada, Colorado, for over seventeen years. He, and his wife have two children -- a daughter in high school and a son who is attending college. Dave is a stay-at-home dad and is editor of www.Earthside.com. He presently writes editorials and political commentary mostly for web-based publications.

Dave was chairperson of the local Sierra Club-Rachel Carson Group from 2001-2002 and was chairperson of the Accountability Committee at his daughter's school from 2002 to 2004. He has previously run for Arvada city council and has been a leader in balanced growth and government reform efforts in Arvada since 1995.

Dave Chandler is a current co-chair of the Colorado Green Party and was the Party's candidate for U.S. House of Representatives for Colorado's Seventh Congressional District in 2002 and 2006. Dave was a delegate to the 2004 Green Party National Convention in Milwaukee.

A native of Wyoming, he moved to Colorado in 1987. Dave earned a degree in History from Metropolitan State College of Denver.

During his many years of political activism in Wyoming and Colorado, he was elected the youngest state committeeman in the Wyoming Democratic Party in 1976 and was employed by the re-election campaign of U.S. Congressman Teno Roncalio also in 1976. In 1992, he served as the Jefferson County chair of Bill Clinton’s presidential primary campaign. After being registered unaffiliated for several years, Dave became a Green in January 2002.

Dave is a student of qigong, tai chi chuan, vipassana meditation, and Buddhism; he is an avid bicyclist.

Dave can be contacted at: 303-424-9897
or Dave@DaveChandler.us

7930 Kendall Street
Arvada, CO 80003