Not because of a personality. Because of a plan. It's below, in plain English. Read it and decide for yourself.
Read the plan ↓A plan to make state government accountable, transparent, efficient, and focused on results that save you money. Not slogans. Planks, with the statutes they run on. Read it in four minutes and decide for yourself.
Colorado Works Better is the operating standard Victor Marx has set for a Marx administration: run the state like it answers to the people paying for it.
Full performance and financial audits of every executive agency, with budget consequences for agencies that fail to reform.
A real-time public dashboard of spending, contracts, and performance. Every contract over $10,000, posted for anyone to see.
Secure AI paired with human judgment to review contracts and flag waste, duplication, and abuse across state government.
Measurable annual goals for every department, published mid-year and year-end. Miss the mark, answer for it publicly.
Every plank below names the Colorado statute or constitutional provision it uses. That is the point: this is a plan built to be executed, not just announced.
TABOR says government cannot raise your taxes without your vote. The plan closes the loopholes that get around you.
Veto new "fees" and "enterprises" that are really taxes in disguise, and roll back the ones that have been stacked on Coloradans without a vote. If it raises your cost of living, you get a say.
Phased income tax reductions when verified surpluses exist, certified by the State Controller, so relief never comes at the expense of public safety or schools.
Freeze property taxes for seniors on fixed incomes and expand the Senior Homestead Exemption, so no one is priced out of a home they already paid for.
Direct the Division of Insurance to restrict excessive rate practices, attract new insurers to Colorado, and build reinsurance tools that stabilize homeowner premiums, especially in wildfire country.
Housing costs are a policy choice. These planks change the policy.
Clear statutory deadlines for permit decisions, with model frameworks and state help so local approvals stop taking years and adding tens of thousands to the price of a home.
A full regulatory review to repeal building, energy, and environmental mandates that drive up construction costs without measurable safety or environmental benefit. Cost-benefit analysis before any new rule.
Every proposed government fee gets a TABOR compliance review and full public disclosure before it can raise the cost of owning a home or keeping the lights on.
Public safety is the first job of government. The plan treats it that way.
No automatic release or non-custodial sentencing for repeat violent offenders. Judges keep discretion, but deviations require written findings the public can read.
Monetary bail for violent felonies, an end to zero-bail programs that ignore risk, and full use of the constitutional power to deny bail when the evidence is strong.
Statewide interdiction priority, enhanced trafficking penalties, and treatment diversion for non-violent addiction, paired with expanded detox and crisis infrastructure in every judicial district.
Statewide staffing assessments and targeted funding so every community has adequately staffed, properly equipped officers, with annual public benchmarks.
We're grassroots-funded. No corporate money, no special interests, just Coloradans who have had enough. Every dollar puts this plan in front of more voters.
Parents direct their children's education. Schools work for students, not systems.
Every district publishes curriculum, materials, and library inventories online and searchable, so parents can review before content is taught.
Public, charter, magnet, online, homeschool, or private: families choose the environment that fits their child, and the dollars follow, with expanded ESAs and open enrollment.
Caps on non-instructional spending growth and audits of district management, so dollars move from bureaucracy into classrooms and teacher paychecks.
Redirect a defined share of lottery proceeds into trade schools and workforce centers, with scholarships and apprenticeships in welding, HVAC, electrical, cybersecurity, and advanced manufacturing.
A headwater state should never lose its water, and a mountain state should never lose its lights.
Aggressively defend Colorado's allocation under the Colorado River Compact and block speculators and out-of-state funds from buying up agricultural water for investment plays.
Wind, solar, and geothermal alongside oil, gas, hydro, and modular nuclear. Reliability and affordability first, so the grid holds and bills fall.
Controlled burns, fuel reduction, expanded aerial resources, and stable long-term mitigation funding, before the next fire, not after.
Accelerated rural broadband through grants, permitting reform, and public-private partnerships, because farms, clinics, and classrooms all run on it now.
Trust is not requested. It is earned in public, with receipts.
Full performance, financial, and compliance audits of every executive agency upon taking office, findings published, with budget consequences for agencies that refuse to fix what is broken.
Expand the state transparency project into a live dashboard of expenditures, contracts, grants, and staffing. Every contract above $10,000 appears, no exceptions.
Every department sets measurable goals and publishes progress twice a year. Agencies that miss face legislative hearings and budget review.
Voter ID with a free state-issued card, annual voter roll maintenance, documented ballot chain of custody, and bipartisan oversight at every step of the count.
No new taxes disguised as fees, income tax cuts when surpluses allow, frozen property taxes for seniors, and a real fight to lower your insurance bill.
Repeat violent offenders stay detained, fentanyl becomes a statewide enforcement emergency, and law enforcement gets fully staffed and equipped.
Every agency audited, every contract over $10,000 posted publicly, waste reported weekly, and whistleblowers protected when they speak up.
Colorado has not had a governor from outside the current system in more than two decades. This year there is a plan on the ballot. Vote Victor Marx for Governor of Colorado.
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