9News: DougCo Commissioners "trying to tank" a citizen-led initiative to limit their power

The Douglas County Commissioners rewrote the ballot language of the 3 to 5 Petition and added a separate, competing, conflicting ballot question of their own in a transparent effort to prevent district-based representation and accountability for our future county commissioners. Kyle Clark of 9News summarized it this way.

Douglas County’s Republican commissioners are facing a threat to their currently absolute power. So you can’t blame the guys for pulling out all the stops to block it. Citizens gathered enough signatures for a ballot question to expand the board from three to five members. That could lead to a Democrat possible winning a seat in that traditionally conservative county. So the GOP commissioners reworded the citizen measure to tank it. Those organizers appealed, and today the DougCo commissioners were like, “Nah. We agree with us.” ~ Kyle Clark