Red County, Blue State: "This is like 1776 and putting those wigs on"

This is copied from the Red County, Blue State, May 30, 2025. Read and listen at link.

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Yes, that’s a real quote from one of our county commissioners.

Here’s a review and fact check of the one hour town hall on home rule in Douglas County. One whole hour! With some casual electioneering from the dais. Cool cool.

Link to recording of town hall

Screen grab from town hall livestream

Proposed Douglas County timeline above.

ABOUT THE CHARTER TIMELINE: I recorded this late late at night and I misspoke in the podcast, I said August 8 is when the public meetings end but it’s August 12. I had assumed the first public meeting would take place July 23, but nope, it would need to be to be somewhere July 8-10 (with the charter commission barely formed!), then July 23-25-ish for the second meeting, then August 7-12 for the last. Super tight timeline with very little wiggle room. A risky move—unless a charter is written and just waiting to be rubber-stamped.

Weld County timeline link

I’m voting NO, but I’d also vote for these charter commission candidates in case the measure does pass:

At-large: Angela Thomas

District 1:

https://www.dougcointegrityalliance.com

Matthew M. Lunn

Emily Roth Suyat

Jason Hamel

October Ann Levy

Irene Bonham

Julie Gooden

Another Dem: Mary Lynch

District 2:

Kevin Leung

Julien Bouquet

Julie Watkins

Barrett Rothe

District 3:

Bob Marshall

Michael Lees

Alicia Jean Vagts

Lee Hudson Frame

Gordon B (Spud) Van De Water

Susan Meek is not on a slate but I’d vote for her in a heartbeat.