Ross Metler

Priorities

Make it affordable to live here. Make government keep its word. Take care of what we already have.

Affordability

Housing prices are a weight on every homeowner and every renter: when rent climbs, every price in the neighborhood follows, and wages chase it but never quite catch up. Now your electric bill is climbing too, with a fight already underway over whether your household will bankroll the grid buildout for data centers, growth that should pay its own way. The rules got rewritten from the Capitol and from city hall, and the results tell you who they were written for: caps for homeowners, carve-outs for the biggest projects. I'll vote for rules a regular person can use and bills a regular family can afford, and I'll read the fine print out loud.

Promises Kept

The standard here is simple. When a tax is sold for roads, the money goes to roads. When the state wants your property, it convicts you first. When cameras and drones track where you go, there are warrants, limits, audits, and real security, or they don't run at all. Your money, your property, your privacy: one standard. The fine print should match the sales pitch, and I'm the one who reads it.

Take Care of Colorado

The people who serve: no Colorado Guard member sent to war unless Congress does its constitutional duty and declares one. The place: forests thinned before they burn, trails and creeks maintained, wildlife decisions made with the people who live with the consequences, not for them. The neighborhoods: police resourced to solve crimes, not to build databases on people suspected of nothing. That's not how it works today. It's how it should, and it's how I'll vote. None of it is glamorous. It's maintenance, and maintenance is the job.

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About Ross

Your Jeffco neighbor

Ross is a software developer and data analyst with a background in physical science. He builds civic data tools that make public information (campaign finance, voting records, public meetings) easier for ordinary people to find and understand. That work is the same instinct behind this campaign: government should be transparent to the people who pay for it.

A resident of Wheat Ridge, Ross has watched HD23 deal with the same problems most of Colorado is dealing with: housing that's gotten out of reach, property tax bills climbing on flat values, schools tightening their belts, corridor projects that change daily life without much explanation. He's running because the people closest to those problems deserve a representative who'll be straight about what the legislature can fix, what it can't, and what it broke in the first place.

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