Sal Pace

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sal Pace
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Dec 14, 1976(1976-12-14)
Age	48
Birthplace	New London
Country	United States
Birth City	Connecticut
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Sal Pace Biography

Sal Pace is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on December 14, 1976 in New London, Connecticut, United States. Sal Pace (born December 14 1976) is an former American legislator who was an elected state representative for Colorado, the U.S. state of Colorado and was elevated to the post of House Democratic leader. He also served for six years as the County Commissioner of Pueblo County, Colorado. Pace is acknowledged as the author of some of the world’s first cannabis regulations when he was as a member of the State House; and he is recognized as a as a national cannabis reform activist and consultant. In Pueblo Pace transformed the town in to”Napa Valley of Cannabis “Napa Valley of Cannabis” of Colorado. Pace has opted to not run for re-election before the end of his term in January of 2019.

Pace ran for Colorado’s 46th House District. Pace was elected in the Pueblo County Assembly, keeping his sole opponent from the ballot, and receiving over 70 percent of the votes of delegate. Pace was unopposed during the august Democratic primary, nor the general election of November 2008.

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.

For the 2009 legislative session, Pace served on the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, the House Appropriations Committee, and the House Judiciary Committee.

After having been elected to legislative session in the month of November, Pace was elected Assistant Majority Caucus Chair in the state by house Democrats.

Sal Pace Net Worth

Sal Pace is one of the richest Politician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sal Pace 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Pace is a professor of American politics for the last two years at Pueblo Community College and at CSU-Pueblo. He was also a member of the Pueblo City Schools (D60) Strategic Plan Core Team, as an organizer for Enable America, as a Colorado Democratic Party Regional Director in 2002. He is also an active part of Sons of Italy of Southern Colorado.

Pace was an assistant to state Representative John Salazar in the Colorado House of Representatives in which he worked on water legislation and healthcare legislation. In the event that Salazar became a member of be a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Pace continued to work for him, including as District Director, Congressional staffer, as well as the manager of Salazar’s campaign for re-election.

Today, cannabis is the second largest tax-paying industry in Pueblo County, with credit largely going to Pace for fathering the industry. Pace has been championing the cannabis industry as an economic boon for Pueblo County since he started serving as the state representative for the area in 2008. After two terms in the Colorado House, he was elected to the post of Pueblo County commissioner in 2013, the year before retail marijuana operations began in Colorado. Since then, Pace has continued to call Pueblo the “Napa Valley of cannabis,” embracing outdoor and greenhouse growing operations and viewing cannabis as a viable option for his community’s agricultural growth. Pace is regularly interviewed for his role leading in Colorado’s marijuana policy. With half of all construction dollars in Pueblo coming from cannabis production, following Pace’s pro-cultivation development policies, the area is often dubbed “the Napa Valley of Cannabis.” By all accounts, the pro-cannabis political climate was led by Pace. “There are about 4.6 million square feet of marijuana gardens dotting the dusty landscape in Pueblo County. Greenhouses climb into the sky in a county that also has some of the largest licensed outdoor grow facilities in the country. Since marijuana became legal in 2012, Pueblo County has licensed 143 legal marijuana cultivations, and another 55 are pending. The area has been called the Napa Valley of the pot industry.” The Financial Times and Boston Globe quote Pace as attributing allowing outdoor and greenhouse grows in Pueblo, making Pueblo the first community nationally to license outdoor and greenhouse marijuana cultivation.

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Pace created the first ever designated funding stream from medicinal cannabis funds in the world in 2010, when he amended the implementing legislation in Colorado to direct tax revenues to fight addiction of alcohol and tobacco. Since then, Pace has created numerous “firsts” in cannabis policy. He led the effort to create Colorado’s Institute of Cannabis Research at Colorado State University Pueblo and created the first college scholarship program funded from cannabis.

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In 2011, Pace led opposition to the proposed Fiscal Year 2011-2012 state budget, which included $250 million in cuts to education, closing the Fort Lyon Correctional Facility and eliminating an addiction recovery program at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo. Pace announced that he would not seek reelection to his House district 46 seat in 2012, and would instead enter the race for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District.

Top Facts about Sal Pace

1. Sal Pace is a former Colorado State Representative.
2. He served as the House Minority Leader from 2011-2013.
3. Pace ran for Congress in 2012 but lost to Scott Tipton.
4. He has worked as a water attorney and lobbyist.
5. Pace is a Democrat and supports renewable energy policies.
6. He was born and raised in Pueblo, Colorado.
7. Pace earned his law degree from the University of New Mexico.
8. During his time in the legislature, he sponsored bills on education and healthcare reform.
9. In 2020, he was elected to serve on the Pueblo County Board of Commissioners.
10. Pace has been endorsed by various labor unions and environmental groups throughout his career.