CO-04 (Special Election)
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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%↓
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
90%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
90%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
(R) Ron Hanks
40%
30%
20%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
30%↑
15%↑
10%↓
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Dave Williams
(R) Jeff Crank
50%↓
50%↑
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
90%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) Brittany Pettersen
85%↑
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Janak Joshi
60%↑
35%↓
30%↑
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
September 09, 2011 06:04 AM UTC
2 Comments
There are 3 proposals on the table for each chamber at this time: The preliminarily approved map and two suggested alternatives. For identification purposes I will call them PA (preliminarily approved) and map1 and map2 (corresponding to what the commission calls 1v1 and 2v1 respectively).
When the Commission took public testimony in Denver on Aug. 31st, people showed up from all over the city (and without prior coordination as far as I can tell) and said with one voice: “Don’t split our neighborhoods!” This one simple request went mostly unheeded.
When people testified on Aug. 31st we only had the PA map to look at. On this map, almost none of the district boundaries lined up with neighborhood boundaries. Some people (myself included) even showed up with thought out and mapped alternatives. These were also apparently ignored.
Map1 does the best job, but still falls quite a bit short. Most notably Westwood in SW Denver and corridor of neighborhood along the east side of Federal are all cut down the middle. There was substantial testimony from these areas begging the Commission to make these neighborhoods whole. It was a very easy fix, in fact. If all of Westwood were placed in HD4, then all of the area east of Federal could go into HD5. Ajustments to 1, 2, and 6 would have to be made to accommodate the population shift, but these adjustments unified more neighborhoods, namely Baker, Speer, and Wash Park.
Map1 and the PA map both include a very curious “hook” of HD8 that loops around the bottom of HD7 to include a particular cul-de-sac in southern Stapleton. Not sure what that is all about, but it appears to be there to put a particular individual in HD8. But I have no idea who that person is.
Map2 makes only slight changes from the PA map. In my opinion this map as well as the PA map are both completely unacceptable.
After the Aug. 31 testimony, I created a Denver map that put most neighborhoods back together and still maintained the general political layout of the PA map. I was even able to work with the Commission staff to have this map added into their system. But the Commissioners apparently chose not to include it for consideration on Monday. If anyone can tell me how to add a picture to a posting here, I will add a picture of my map.
On the SD maps the PA map was not wonderful, but it was the least damaging of the 3 proposed.
On the SD map, Denver gets 4.18 SD’s. The question yet to be resolved with where to put that other .18.
The Dems want to add it to an Arapahoe district by giving them SW Denver south of Hampden.
The GOP wants to add it to a Jeffco district by giving them SW Denver west of Sheridan.
I really don’t care, but if it goes to Jeffco, it needs to be added to a urban district, not the foothills distract that the current GOP map has it in. I think the Commission has reached some consensus on that one point.