Public Comments

I absolutely love this new district! Thank you so much for keeping Park County whole, and for making a front range district of its own. Jerry DeVries (submitted via email 9/10/21)

Thank you for all the hard work you are doing to make our voting districts equal. In Park County, we are very pleased to bring our county's Congressional Districts together after 20 years of separation, with our communities in common. On the east side of Kenosha Pass, we work and shop in Jefferson County (Evergreen, Conifer, Morrison, Kittridge & Idledale) Many thanks for keeping us close to our neighbors. On the southern end of Park County, many people shop and work in Teller, Chaffee, and Freemont Adding in Clear Creek, Summit, Lake, and Gilpin gives all of us diversity and more of an equal field of voters. THANK YOU!! Shelia Canfield-Jones (submitted via email 9/9/21)

Hello Redistricting Committee, Thank you for coming through Brighton a couple of weeks ago and allowing the opportunity for all to speak. I was your last in person speaker that evening. I am attaching a copy of our growth boundary for your reference as requested. Please take this into consideration when finalizing the redistricting maps. Please do not split Brighton residents and the surrounding areas representation. I would also like to advocate to keep Commerce City residents with the same representation as Brighton. We all work, shop, and recreate together as a community regardless of city boundaries. Greg Mills Mayor Brighton CO (submitted via email 9/9/21)

Colorado demographics by enlarge are aligned with farming on the eastern plains, ranching on the west slope, and major cities along the front range. Congressional districts should represent these major demographic differences. The current proposal does not.

Grand County needs to be in the 3rd District where Western slope concerns and issues will not be unheard and unrepresented when the 2nd District is dominated by large metro areas as Boulder. The current plan represents a partisan attempt to redistrict out the current 3rd district Congressional Representative by redrawing the boundaries. Penny Rafferty Hamilton, Ph.D.

(submitted via email 9/10/21)

I have just seen the new staff map and I love it. I am a resident of Teller County. Thanks for all your hard work.

Dear committee members, We live in Montezuma county, we would like to have a say so in our county that will be heard. We are an agricultural community and need to be heard. We don’t need to have some people who live in Grand Junction, Mesa county deciding what should be done for us. They are in town folks and don’t see the problems we as a rural community have. Let’s take time a do a redo on the map. You have it set up for failure in some of the biggest state revenue community’s the way you have redesigned the map. We are a agricultural community not a tourist community. This is unacceptable to many of us. A lot of our people have no computer skills to be able to argue the point. You need to think of the state as a whole not as who will vote to change things. Thank you, Spook ~N~ Skatter Land ~N~ Cattle Mr. & Mrs. Poff (submitted via email 9/9/21)

Hello, my name is Carol Antolovich, and I am a registered voter in Montrose. I moved here 5 years ago from Denver, where I lived in the same house for 46 years. One of the reasons my husband and I moved here was because it was the 'west slope,' and we knew that it was dramatically different from the 'front range.' About the only things we have in common with the I 25 corridor and the eastern plains are that we are in the same state and have the same governor and senators. Other than that, can anyone tell me what we have in common with cities like Boulder? And yet, the proposed map has the northern half of the western slope in the same congressional district with Boulder. That defies common sense. The western slope should remain as one district. I agree 100% with the recommendations of Club 20, a non partisan organization representing the 'voice of the western slope since 1953.' The map they have proposed is the best representation of our community of interest. The west slope of Colorado deserves to be in one congressional district so that our common interests are best served in the United States House of Representatives. (submitted via email 9/9/21)

I oppose the redistricting which puts Fort Collins with Weld and Yuma Counties. Fort Collins does not belong in a district where it is not culturally relevant. Weld and Yuma Counties do not support racial, social or environmental justice. Their values systems are not aligned. I request that the new districts be reconsidered to better align districts culturally. Courtney Stewart (submitted via email 9/9/21)