WEEK OF OCTOBER 10, 2024
VOLUME 136 | ISSUE 10
Three candidates vie for Arapahoe County Commissioner District 1 seat BY NINA JOSS NJOSS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Arapahoe County voters will vote for their District 1 representative, which includes the cities of Sheridan, Bow Mar, Columbine Valley, Englewood, Littleton, Cherry Hills Village, western Centennial and parts of unincorporated northern Arapahoe County. The five-member Board of County Commissioners serves as the legislative, governing and administrative body for the county. Commissioners are elected to serve four-year terms. Incumbent Democrat and current Board Chair Carrie Warren-Gully, who was elected in 2020, is running against Republican Tyler Linnebur and Libertarian Joshua Lallement for the seat. Carrie Warren-Gully
Democrat Carrie Warren-Gully is seeking reelection to the Arapahoe County Board of County Commissioners District 1 seat after being elected in 2020. She said she is running for reelection partly because much of her first term was spent focused on the pan-
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demic. “It really hasn’t been until pretty much the last year that we’ve gotten into work that I would say is non-COVID related, really, and kind of getting back to the work of what our county does,” she said. “I really feel like there is so much to be done.” She said that after her first term, she feels equipped to face the county’s challenges with expertise. “I have spent the first four years really learning about the challenges in front of us, building those relationships and partnerships to solve these,” she said. “I’m looking forward to the next four years to actually bring to fruition the implementation of a lot of work that we’ve all been working on.” Warren-Gully’s background is in nonprofit work, which she said gives her insight into the county’s col-
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laboration with nonprofits. She also has started and run two businesses, which taught her about business finances, she said. Warren-Gully also served on the Littleton Public Schools Board of Education from 2013 to 2020, which she said gave her insight into how to be a good board member. If reelected, Warren-Gully’s priorities would be housing attainability, mental health and small businesses and workforce development. She said she would bring her experiences to the role and continue to strengthen partnerships to find collaborative solutions. “I have a variety of experiences that I bring to the table that give me the ability to understand our community and try to address the needs from a lot of different perspectives,” she said. “I think that my last four years of interaction in our community speaks for itself.”
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Jeff Bridges, Bob Lane and Meredith Ryan compete for Senate District 26 BY ELISABETH SLAY ESLAY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Republican Tyler Linnebur is a Colorado native who grew up in the Littleton area.
Jeff Bridges, Bob Lane and Meredith Ryan are competing this November in a race that will determine the next state senator for District 26. Bridges, of Greenwood Village, is the Democratic incumbent representative for Senate District 26, which consists of Cherry Hills Village, Englewood, Greenwood Village, Sheridan, Columbine Valley, most of Littleton and a small part of western Aurora. He assumed office in 2019 after being appointed to fill the seat after it was vacated. He previously served in the House District 3 seat. “I’ve always believed that government is where we come together to do the good work none of us can do on our own,” Bridges said. “When a spot in the State House opened up in 2017, I ran and won. Having served as chair of the Education Committee, chair of the Finance Committee, and with plans to chair the Joint
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