Douglas County Watch

You can sign the Petition to Expand Douglas County Commissioners from 3 to 5 by visiting booth 633 on Mainstreet during Parker Days.
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Our current system relies on at-large representation — meaning commissioners are elected to represent the entire county.

Expanding to five commissioners creates an opportunity to strengthen district-based representation, where each commissioner is more directly connected to the communities they serve.

This helps:

• Ensure every area of the county has a clear voice

• Strengthen connections between residents and their elected officials

• Bring local perspectives into county-wide decisions

• Make representation more responsive and accessible

It’s about making government feel closer to the people it serves.

I hope she gets voted out in the primary. I haven't decided who my top choice for AG is yet, but it will be someone who's better qualified for the position and not making headlines for the wrong reasons.

What are your thoughts on the AG candidates?

Louviers Resident Lisa Ike Shares Message for Commissioner Abe Laydon:

To my FB friends this is straight from my heart PLEASE READ to support whether you live in Colorado or not. I would love an explanation from Abe Laydon who is one of the 3 Douglas County Commissioners who I had the opportunity to have a one on one conversation with in regards protecting the welfare of small towns in Douglas County, Colorado. Abe Laydon let me remind you of who I am. I am a resident of Louviers. A small, historic community in Douglas County built in the early 1900s for the Dupont dynamite plant. Our community houses just over 100 homes. Many owned by generational families who never left. Many are seniors and young families seeking a quieter, safer place outside of suburbia and the city. We have community activities like pie in the park and weekly coffee hour in the summer. It is a tight knit community who gets the pleasure of watching the deer roam, toads taking refuge in our gardens, many species of birds seeking shelter in our 100 year old trees, and coyotes sitting on the hill howling at night. Abe Laydon in our conversation you expressed to me that one of your missions as a commissioner was to protect the sanctity of small towns in Douglas County. I am here to express to you how you failed and from my view saw you bow down so easily with what I am going to assume had financial gain over people's livelihood. Not only is the Brannan asphalt plant an eye sore it is also disrupting and what I am assuming spewing toxins into our town. Just last night I was lying in bed with my windows wide open enjoying the crisp night air and was overcome with a wafting scent of asphalt. In the early hours of Sunday morning again overcome and woken by the scent. My message to you is you failed or you straight lied to my face. You are not a proponent for small towns. You are a politician looking at the financial reward over the welfare of tax paying citizens.

If you are a Douglas County resident please sign for the "3 to 5 commissioners" initiative.

If you live in Louviers or its surrounding area and the asphalt is affecting you please email a complaint to [email protected]

Thank you to all that took the time to read my long but very important post. Feel free to share 🫶🏽

Post from John Diak for Douglas County Commissioner: The unfortunate part of running for an elected position are organizations disseminating untruths/misleading information so voters act on this false information and vote for their preferred candidate.

It’s my commitment that my campaign (Committee to Elect John Diak) will not engage in negative attacks or materially misrepresent facts – my focus is on communicating platform, experience and results to the voters. It’s my hope that others who support my campaign focus on these items as well.

Here is a one-time analysis of one of these mailers – the IEC mailer that I received 6/6/26:
I received a mailer on Saturday that stated “John Diak voted to cut funding for the Parker Police three times” and identified sources to support this claim. This statement is sensationalistic and untrue.

The source documents identified in the mailer were reviewed with the Town – 4 of the 6 titled “Parker Town Council Meeting Minutes…” contained no financial detail – the Town stopped attaching the budget book to the adopting ordinances in 2015. The Finance department provided there were two times the police adopted budget decreased from the previous year during my tenure – 2016 to 2017 (In 2016 there was a one-time major capital project of $2 million—replacement of the PD’s records management system—in effect came out of the budget between those years. The overall difference from 2016 to 2017 was less than $2 million, meaning we still added to the PD budget if you don’t consider the single records management capital project coming off the books) and 2018 to 2019 (In 2019, there was a significant drop in sales tax revenue in the Town. The entire organization had to tighten its belt to balance the budget. There was a very modest decrease in the PD adopted budget that year (-1.8%) but as revenue increased during the year, Council added funding to the police fund that exceeded the previous year’s adopted budget).

There were three supporting quotes from 2025 that referred to Douglas County and the Denver suburbs but not Parker that alluded to increasing crime. A review of the 2025 year end Parker Police crime statistics – crime has largely fallen in that time period. Additionally, Douglas County’s Sheriff Weekly has indicated in various speeches over the last few months that crime has decreased in his time as Sheriff. I view this progress as Douglas County various law enforcement agencies working well together, solid detective work to place Douglas County law enforcement professionals in a position to apprehend those criminal elements in our community as well as the formation of the 23rd Judicial District and DA Brauchler’s commitment to prosecute as positive steps to deter crime.

Finally, I called retired Parker Police Chief David King – David was Parker’s Police Chief during this timeframe, and, full disclosure, David has endorsed my campaign for County Commissioner. When presented with the information on the mailer, response was concern and disbelief indicating that Council has always ensured police had the needed funding and resources to keep our community safe. Annually, the Police Chief and Town Manager create a budget that is presented to Town Council by the Police Chief at a budget retreat in October. In my time on Council, we have always asked our Chief if they were lacking funding/resources in any way and our Chief would always indicate there is no additional needs and Council would adopt the budget as presented. Additionally, when additional needs for the police came up within the year, Council has always found the money and amended the budget to ensure the police department had what it needed. In my time as an elected official, the police budget has increased 137% in total or an average of 11.45% annually. In Parker, we are committed to ensuring our police department is equipped and funded to ensure a safe community – this commitment will not change when I become County Commissioner.

Again, it’s my hope that these false/misleading communications end and we can focus on the issues that our individual campaigns feel are important to earn the citizen’s vote. My campaign will not be participating – I hope others do the same.