A Roadmap for Colorado’s Survival and Sovereignty 02/20/2026

My name is Christian R. Komor and I am running for Colorado Governor. We are living through complex and challenging times. Colorado is facing mounting pressures—from a cost of living that makes nine in ten of our neighbors feel like they’re underwater, to unacceptable complexity in our healthcare delivery system, to climate change which is costing our state hundreds of billions of dollars in reduced snowpack, tourism, rising insurance premiums, skyrocketing healthcare, emergency management and firefighting costs, and groundwater depletion as high as 70% in Some areas. This is a time when Colorado needs thoughtful, compassionate and bold action – not leaders who say they will stand up when their records say otherwise. At Komor for Governor our team doesn't offer promises; we offer a roadmap for implementation.

At the heart of this map is a simple truth: Colorado is a state of neighbors. We believe that if you work in this state, you deserve a good job with fair wages that allow you to build a future here. My administration will not just "hope" for better pay; we will use the power of state procurement to favor bidders who pay at least 110% of the local median wage. We will reward the "good actors" who invest in our people and hold the "bad actors" accountable with mandatory incentive clawbacks if they fail to meet their wage or job targets.

But a fair wage is only one piece of the puzzle. You cannot have economic sovereignty if your paycheck is being drained by a broken healthcare system. We will implement Universal Baseline Coverage for our children and strengthen the Colorado Option to ensure that high-quality care is a default, not a luxury. We will lower costs through transparent price negotiation for drugs and hospital stays, because your health should never be a corporate profit center.

Worker safety and the dignity of labor are not negotiable. We will launch the Labor Enforcement Coordination Council to aggressively protect worker rights and safety across every agency. This includes a zero-tolerance policy for wage theft. If you do the work, you get the pay. Period. We will treat the "Colorado Cleanup Doctrine"—the idea that if you make a mess, you clean it up—as a principle that applies to both environmental polluters and those who pollute our labor market with illegal practices.

We also recognize that a career is more than just the years you spend on the clock. It’s about dignity in aging and a secure retirement. We will expand the assistance for home-care providers to ensure our seniors can age safely at home, supported by a state that honors their lifetime of contribution.

To our public employees and educators: you are the backbone of our "Governance by and for the People". We will professionalize our schools by implementing nation-leading teacher pay. We will recruit the best talent into our state service—from our teachers to our security forces—by offering the respect and the compensation that a "premier" state asset deserves.

In these times we must fiercely protect the freedom of assembly and the right to organize. My administration respects the Colorado Labor Peace Act and the neighborly bonds that collective bargaining creates. We will ensure that the power of the Governors office supports the swift deterrence for anyone who attempts to undermine the constitutional integrity of our workforce.

Make no mistake. We have all seen and experienced the changes in climate brought on govrnments lack of attention to this crisis. Experts are no predicting in less than 10 years the failure of heat-transporting ocean currents and massive feedback cycles will accelerate climate disruption beyond human ability to master. Many are fearful for what the future will bring or feel it is already too late. It is too late for emissions reductions and alternative energy to make enough difference until we address the dense and dangerous layer of carbon and other gasses we have dumped into our atmosphere. These gasses will persist for thousands of years unless they are removed the same way they got there – artificially. We learned it in kindergarten, we must clean up our own mess and we can. In the 1980’s we worked together to repair the ozone hole created by types of pollution we learned we could do without. Our leadership and ingenuity solved that massive problem, and we can solve over-carbonization too. From day one my administration will begin construction of several Direct Air Carbon Removal centers including at the Denver Arapahoe Disposal Site, at the Weld County Denver-Julesburg Basin, in Arapahoe County and in Mesa County’s Pi-c-eance Basin where there is currently high methane leakage from older wells and oil and gas workers abandoned by their companies with the skills to take on carbon management roles. Our team has run the numbers. Compaines like Climeworks have perfected the technology. Colorado is ready to become the "SkyCarbon Frontier" to secure the region's atmospheric and economic future. We will lead the way for partner states and we will get this job done for the sake of our kids and their kids. In so doing we will bring to Colorado thousands of high paying green collar jobs and a strong GDP bolstered by products made from recovered air carbon – including biodegradable recycled plastic. This is not just clean manufacturing, this is cleanup manufacturing. But I must warn you - in 4 years it will already be too late. This election, this year, is our window. It doesn’t matter if it’s me or someone else, but Colorado must elect a governor with a proven workable plan to immediately begin the work of Direct Air Carbon Removal - not a governor looking for a place to retire from Washington and focused on the minor downstream effects of climate change like high salt content in the water.

Colorado doesn’t need more short-sighted promises. It needs a governor who will do the work you asked for and the very hard work that will ensure we can continue to better ourselves for generations to come. Please vote Komor for Governor and speak strongly for us in the caucuses. Make no mistake the future depends on this election.My name is Christian R. Komor and I am running for Colorado Governor. We are living through complex and challenging times. Colorado is facing mounting pressures—from a cost of living that makes nine in ten of our neighbors feel like they’re underwater, to unacceptable complexity in our healthcare delivery system, to climate change which is costing our state hundreds of billions of dollars in reduced snowpack, tourism, rising insurance premiums, skyrocketing healthcare, emergency management and firefighting costs, and groundwater depletion as high as 70% in Some areas. This is a time when Colorado needs thoughtful, compassionate and bold action – not leaders who say they will stand up when their records say otherwise. At Komor for Governor our team doesn't offer promises; we offer a roadmap for implementation. At the heart of this map is a simple truth: Colorado is a state of neighbors. We believe that if you work in this state, you deserve a good job with fair wages that allow you to build a future here. My administration will not just "hope" for better pay; we will use the power of state procurement to favor bidders who pay at least 110% of the local median wage. We will reward the "good actors" who invest in our people and hold the "bad actors" accountable with mandatory incentive clawbacks if they fail to meet their wage or job targets.

But a fair wage is only one piece of the puzzle. You cannot have economic sovereignty if your paycheck is being drained by a broken healthcare system. We will implement Universal Baseline Coverage for our children and strengthen the Colorado Option to ensure that high-quality care is a default, not a luxury. We will lower costs through transparent price negotiation for drugs and hospital stays, because your health should never be a corporate profit center. Worker safety and the dignity of labor are not negotiable. We will launch the Labor Enforcement Coordination Council to aggressively protect worker rights and safety across every agency. This includes a zero-tolerance policy for wage theft. If you do the work, you get the pay. Period. We will treat the "Colorado Cleanup Doctrine"—the idea that if you make a mess, you clean it up—as a principle that applies to both environmental polluters and those who pollute our labor market with illegal practices.

We also recognize that a career is more than just the years you spend on the clock. It’s about dignity in aging and a secure retirement. We will expand the assistance for home-care providers to ensure our seniors can age safely at home, supported by a state that honors their lifetime of contribution.

To our public employees and educators: you are the backbone of our "Governance by and for the People". We will professionalize our schools by implementing nation-leading teacher pay. We will recruit the best talent into our state service—from our teachers to our security forces—by offering the respect and the compensation that a "premier" state asset deserves. In these times we must fiercely protect the freedom of assembly and the right to organize. My administration respects the Colorado Labor Peace Act and the neighborly bonds that collective bargaining creates. We will ensure that the power of the Governors office supports the swift deterrence for anyone who attempts to undermine the constitutional integrity of our workforce. Make no mistake. We have all seen and experienced the changes in climate brought on govrnments lack of attention to this crisis. Experts are no predicting in less than 10 years the failure of heat-transporting ocean currents and massive feedback cycles will accelerate climate disruption beyond human ability to master. Many are fearful for what the future will bring or feel it is already too late. It is too late for emissions reductions and alternative energy to make enough difference until we address the dense and dangerous layer of carbon and other gasses we have dumped into our atmosphere. These gasses will persist for thousands of years unless they are removed the same way they got there – artificially. We learned it in kindergarten, we must clean up our own mess and we can. In the 1980’s we worked together to repair the ozone hole created by types of pollution we learned we could do without. Our leadership and ingenuity solved that massive problem, and we can solve over-carbonization too. From day one my administration will begin construction of several Direct Air Carbon Removal centers including at the Denver Arapahoe Disposal Site, at the Weld County Denver-Julesburg Basin, in Arapahoe County and in Mesa County’s Pi-c-eance Basin where there is currently high methane leakage from older wells and oil and gas workers abandoned by their companies with the skills to take on carbon management roles. Our team has run the numbers. Compaines like Climeworks have perfected the technology. Colorado is ready to become the "SkyCarbon Frontier" to secure the region's atmospheric and economic future. We will lead the way for partner states and we will get this job done for the sake of our kids and their kids. In so doing we will bring to Colorado thousands of high paying green collar jobs and a strong GDP bolstered by products made from recovered air carbon – including biodegradable recycled plastic. This is not just clean manufacturing, this is cleanup manufacturing. But I must warn you - in 4 years it will already be too late. This election, this year, is our window. It doesn’t matter if it’s me or someone else, but Colorado must elect a governor with a proven workable plan to immediately begin the work of Direct Air Carbon Removal - not a governor looking for a place to retire from Washington and focused on the minor downstream effects of climate change like high salt content in the water.

Colorado doesn’t need more short-sighted promises. It needs a governor who will do the work you asked for and the very hard work that will ensure we can continue to better ourselves for generations to come. Please vote Komor for Governor and speak strongly for us in the caucuses. Make no mistake the future depends on this election.