Colorado Politics: Douglas County’s Home Rule effort is secretive, rushed and being done by personal interests for special interests. It must be defeated. I’m generally agnostic about Home Rule. It could be good or bad. But this one is bad. Very bad.

Less than 90 seconds. That is the time Douglas County’s commissioners spent discussing and voting for a $500,000 single-issue special election for Home Rule, the biggest political decision a county can make. This was done at a hastily called special meeting with only 24-hour notice and no public input invited or allowed. Nobody I know heard any public airing of this Home Rule idea before that meeting. So why now? Why not during 2026 when a broad cross-section of the electorate would be engaged in a normal election year and it would not cost $500,000?

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