CORY PARELLA

Colorado Secretary of State candidate

    cory.sos2026@gmail.com

Day 1 in Colorado August 1 2006.

I have survived homelessness. The Lord is my Rock. He always provides. 

Conceived: New Jersey 1972. Born: Arizona 1973. Raised: Tucson. Joe Parella served on AZ Metro, now operated by the DEA.  Lymphoma cancer claimed my dad in 1991. His brief return to us to tell us that Jesus is Alive led to my proclamation of Christ in 1998, the same year Tucson named a street after him. “21 Jumpstreet” was based on one of his cases.

Married to Pam, 2002 - 2015.

I Filed. I survived domestic violence.

I raised my kids, 10 years of diapers. 

Childhood Role Models 

George Lucas, Kevin Costner, Lute Olson. 


First Movie job: Body Double for Tom Cruise (The Firm). 

MISTAKES AND CORRUPTION EXISTED BEFORE ELECTRONIC VOTING

Fewer mistakes with paper?


History is edited by the Winners…


Vote Integrity - 


I want to move the Vote Tabulation process out of the SoS. Elections have never been truly fair, not on paper, not on plastic aka computers. Machines do as they are programmed to do. No single political party has proven reliable for Final Scorekeeping. Every Election has been flawed. 


The 2020 Election was as fair as the 1919 World Series.  And the Dems used our playbook. 


Removing dead registered voters from the lists is tedious. I will start at A and Z and work to the middle until done. This will take the duration of my term, if not longer.


Centuries of negligence will require months  of correction.  Don’t expect it overnight. 

Professions when not running for office - Teacher, Publisher, Movie Maker. I have also worked as a tax prep specialist, Notary and Life Insurance. I own 20 businesses, not all profitable. 3 Pulitzer nominations for publishing.


First Office: Delegate 2016 Aurora North. 

First Ballot Appearance: June 2022 HD42. 

First State District Chair: HD42 Jan 2023 - Jan 2025. US Congress candidate CD5 March 2024. 6% of vote (Write In, a CD5 record).  


While changing 10 years of diapers, I earned my bachelors degree from Arizona State in 2011. Then I earned 3 masters degrees from 2015-2022 in Film Editing, Business (an MBA) and Psychology.   I wrote biographies. I own the rights to the 1997 Mens National Champ story. 


The Business of the Secretary of State is to serve entrepreneurs. 


Few industries can innovate something out of nothing like motion picture. San Francisco, western New York and Chicago outlasted crime waves with the success of The Godfather, American Graffiti and Star Wars. Oprah Winfrey’s empire gave Chicago new life before Michael Jordan was drafted. It can be done. I know how. 


I witnessed the success of event-destination revenue of CBS Sports March Madness, the power of television revenue replacing a century of human and drug trafficking in Tucson. Science grants, civic activities, and college sports programs have become international economic forces. Summer camp plans by the late “Papa Lute” Olson are today used by the NBA G League to develop young people into thriving adults whose success eclipse sports. Where they reside, communities prosper. Media is an economic force, not an accessory.


I watched my dad’s team wage war on drugs and human trafficking while Lute Olson spoke life into macroeconomics by using sports to teach Life skills for the latter 25 years of his HOF career at Arizona. It changed the State from Blue to Red. My turn.