Public Comments

Please reject maps being pushed by Commissioners Barnett and Kottwitz and support maps drawn by nonpartisan staff. Thank you.

I am concerned with what I am hearing about attempts to gerrymander the legislative maps to ensure Republican control of the State House. Please reject maps being pushed by Commissioners Barnett and Kottwitz and support maps drawn by nonpartisan staff.

We cannot allow partisan gerrymandering of our state to place control of government into the hands of those who in other states have proven to operate like a gangland mafia. This alert is a case in point. "But Republican legislative Redistricting Commissioners Hunter Barnett (R) and Aislinn Kottwitz (R) are working with non-disclosing and unregistered GOP operatives lobbying to shove through a last-minute set of maps to the Supreme Court that would fundamentally alter the make-up of the state senate and house, almost certainly ensuring control for Colorado Republicans over the next decade." We need to fight this in every possible way. Please support the nonpartisan, neutral redistricting staff who recently submitted their final set of legislative maps to the commission, which would ensure fair representation for the people of Colorado.

I implore you to take a stand for transparency by rejecting any maps that could be tarnished by the ongoing, unreported lobbying to gerrymander legislative districts for the GOP. This is totally against what we, the majority of voters in Colorado, voted for with Amendments Y and Z. The purpose of the independent redistricting commissions is to avoid partisanship. Do not be fooled. Hold strong to your convictions to keep this non-partisan. You must reject maps being pushed by Commissioners Barnett and Kottwitz and support maps drawn by non-partisan staff. This is your duty as an appointee to the Commission. I am counting on you as my representative on the Commission. Thank you.

Please draw maps in a non-partisan manner. All districts should be of equal population size and should be drawn in the most whole, not elongated shape, possible with no concern for politics, community, race, or other dividing issues. We live in a square state, please keep the districts square, to mirror the state boundries. Please reject maps being pushed by Commissioners Barnett and Kottwitz and support maps drawn by nonpartisan staff.

I have heard that Republican legislative Redistricting Commissioners Hunter Barnett (R) and Aislinn Kottwitz (R) are attempting to push through their own version of legislative maps and I am very concerned. I strongly support the non-partisan effort to create fair legislative districts and urge the commission to reject any partisan effort to sway the process.

Please support the maps proposed by the non-partisan redistricting staff rather the gerrymandered versions being pushed by Commissioners Barnett and Kottwitz.

The people of Colorado spoke when they approved a nonpartisan commission to analyze and propose redistricting maps for the purposes of all state and federal elections. I urge you to reject maps being pushed by Commissioners Barnett and Kottwitz and support maps drawn by nonpartisan staff.

Please reject maps being recommended by Commissioners Barnett and Kottwitz and support the maps drawn by nonpartisan staff.

I urge you to take a stand for transparency by rejecting any maps that could be tarnished by the ongoing, unreported lobbying to gerrymander legislative districts for the GOP. Please reject maps being pushed by Commissioners Barnett and Kottwitz and support maps drawn by nonpartisan staff.