Public Comments

This commission is to be non-partisan. You must reject any of the maps that are subject to undisclosed GOP lobbying and your mission is to support nonpartisan staff plans. Colorado and America is watching you.

I believe that we are best represented when we can see what exactly is happening and districts are not drawn to benefit one party or another. Redrawing districts so they are heavily weighted one way or another, and not allowing it to be seen by the public, is incredibly wrong. If a politician can’t win on merits and have to cheat, they don’t deserve the power they seek. I’ve just about had it with gerrymandering. If we are going to have districts redrawn in Colorado, then we need to have an independent commission, neither republican or democrat.

PLEASE do not make a mockery of the nonpartisan, neutral redistricting committee by allowing commissioners Barnett and Kottwitz to GERRYMANDER a hyper-partisan map! PLEASE support the maps drawn by nonpartisan staff. Your constituents are watching and are on full-alert...

Dear Commissioners, Please reject maps that are subject to undisclosed GOP lobbying and Support nonpartisan staff plans. Thank you.

NO partisan biasing please, keep our democracy. Thank you

Let's just keep the redistricting fair... I know everybody wants to have it in their favor but that is not fair to anybody. I am just a regular person who believes that the the redistricting should not favor either political party.

The ability of the voters to fairly elect representatives of their choosing is a fundamental right of all Coloradoans. That right is being compromised by the the attempts of Hunter Barnett and Aislinn Kottwitz, Republican members of the Colorado Legislative Redistricting Commission. They are attempting to gerrymander the Colorado Senate and House to ensure Republican control of the state assembly for the next decade. As a voter and native Coloradoan who has always been proud of our Colorado values, I SAY NO! I appreciate the work of the Legislative Commission and their staff. I appreciate the neutral, nonpartisan maps they submitted to the commission on Tuesday as their final set of legislative maps. I felt these nonpartisan, neutral maps would ensure fair representation for the people of Colorado, which is what all Coloradoans want. However, legislative Commissioners Barnett and Kottwitz are currently working with non-disclosing, unregistered Republican 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 ensuring control of Colorado Republicans over the next decade. This is UNACCEPTABLE!! This is a mockery of everything the Independent Redistricting Commissions are meant to stand for. As a Coloradoan, a voter, a woman, a Latina and a Democrat, I am entitled to have my voice heard. I am entitled to a fair election where candidates who reflect my values have a honest and fair opportunity to be elected. It is fundamentally against all we stand for as Americans and Coloradoans to have our voices and voting power diminished, SILENCED, by the underhanded, subversive, tactics of Colorado Republicans. It is my understanding the Redistricting Committees were intended to be independent so that politics could not taint the process. It is my understanding that Legislative Commissioners were required to check their politics at the door when they agreed to serve as commissioners. This is improper interference with the redistricting process. Barnett and Kottwitz should be removed and the maps they pushed with subversive and deceptive Republican operatives should be rejected! I am urging you to REJECT the maps submitted by these underhanded Republican operatives working with Barnett and Kottwitz and reestablish a fair process nonpartisan process that creates a legislative map that will work fairly and equitably for all Coloradoans. Thank you for your consideration and work.

Please reject maps by Hunter Barnett and Aislinn for redistributing. Please support maps drawn by non partisan staff. Thank you.

I trust that you will follow the independent committee's redistricting map and nor undermine the process.

PLEASE take a stand for transparency and rejecting any maps that could be tarnished by the ongoing, unreported lobbying to gerrymander legislative districts for the GOP. Reject the maps being pushed by Commissioners Barnett and Kottwitz and support maps drawn by nonpartisan staff. Their last minute efforts to shove through a 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 is outrageous AND mockery of everything that Independent Redistricting Commissions are meant to stand for.