Edward Casso

Casso formed an exploratory committee for the 2016 election to the United States House of Representatives in Colorado's 6th congressional district .

Representative Casso announced he would not seek reelection in the 2012 General Election. Casso is succeeded by former legislative aide Dominick Moreno who was elected over his Republican opponent.

After Casso praised Gov. Bill Ritter's decision not to run for a second term in January 2010 and harshly criticized the sitting Democratic governor, House Speaker Terrance Carroll replaced Casso as vice-chair of the House Business Affairs Committee with Rep. Sara Gagliardi.

For the 2009 legislative session, Casso was named to a seat on the House State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee and as vice-chair of the House Business Affairs Committee. He was also nominated for the post of House Majority Caucus Whip, but lost the caucus' vote for the post to Rep. Claire Levy. Casso has also sponsored legislation to declare September 11 a state holiday.

In the 2008 session of the Colorado General Assembly, Casso sits on the House Business Affairs and Labor Committee and the House State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee.

Casso sought a second term in the legislature in 2008 and faced no opposition in either the August Democratic primary or the November general election.

In the 2007 session of the Colorado General Assembly, Casso sat on the House Education Committee and the House State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee.

During the 2007 session, Casso sponsored two bills to revise the ways in which schools' CSAP test scores were reported. One, which would have exempted scores from special education students, was killed in a Senate committee; the other, which would have exempted scores for students whose parents opt the students out of the test, was killed in a House committee at Casso's request because of concerns that it would jeopardize federal school funding.

In October 2007, Casso was honored by LARASA, the Latin American Research And Service Agency with the Lena L. Archuleta Education Service Award, for his work in the legislature, including a vote in committee that benefitted LARASA Learning Centers.

In the 2006 Colorado legislative elections, Casso defeated Republican Tracey Snyder with 57 percent of the popular vote. Casso was endorsed by the Denver Post, but not the Rocky Mountain News.

Born in Thornton, Colorado, Casso earned a bachelor's degree in political philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1997. He was the first member of his family to attend college. While at CU, Casso was president of the CU College Democrats. There, he was a precinct committeeperson for the Boulder County Democratic Party and a member of the vacancy committee that appointed Ron Tupa to the Colorado State Senate.

Edward Casso (born 1974) is a former legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado. Elected to the Colorado House of Representatives as a Democrat in 2006, Casso represented House District 32, which encompasses suburbs of Denver, Colorado in northwestern Adams County, from 2006 to 2012.