Officials clash over Douglas County home rule election

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — An appeals court did not make a definitive decision to uphold a lawsuit aimed at stopping the vote on whether to enact home rule structure in Douglas County.

Home Rule is a form of local government that gives cities and counties more autonomy from state law. Democratic State Representative Bob Marshall and two Douglas County residents filed legal action to halt the election in April.

“The more you pull, peel the onion back on this thing, the more it keeps getting rotted and rotted, stinkier and stinkier,” said Marshall.

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