The Komor Plan for Colorado’s Future

These are complex times. Colorado currently faces mounting pressures from climate change, rising costs, and a widening gap between citizens and their government. Problems have been allowed to pile up until and solutions are no longer simple, but our team has solutions and here you will find a map to guide you through our 15 Solution Areas arranged under the IV Thematic Cornerstones of our platform. Then, on our web site if you wish you can find deeper information including how we will fund and accomplish the elements of each of the 15 Solution Areas. At our website you will also find our Interstate SkyCarbon Blueprint for sparking the repair of climate change in the next decade! If you find a candidate with a more robust, comprehensive, and workable plan for Colorado who also has a science-based, economically feasible strategy to effectively address climate change vote for them. If not welcome aboard!

THE FOUR CORNERSTONES

Cornerstone I: Governance By and For The People Focus: Rebuilding the relationship between the state and the citizen.

• Item 1: Principles-Based Government

• Item 2: State Security and Sovereignty

• Item 3: Budget, Revenue & Long-Term Fiscal Stability

Cornerstone II: Repairing The Living Environment Focus: Protecting the basic physical conditions of life.

• Item 4: Clean Air, Clean Water, Safe Soils

• Item 5: Climate Action That Protects Colorado’s Future

Cornerstone III: Economic Sovereignty Focus: Lowering systemic costs and investing in Colorado's future.

• Item 6: Corporate Accountability & Economic Fair Play

• Item 7: Lower Cost of Living & Better Jobs

• Item 8: Real Solutions to the Housing Crisis

• Item 9: High-Quality, Affordable Healthcare for Every Coloradan

Cornerstone IV: Restoring the Social Fabric Focus: Strengthening the "Neighborly" bonds of the community.

• Item 10: Homelessness: Housing + Health, Not Chaos

• Item 11: Public Safety: The Standard for Compassion & Protection

• Item 12: Immigration & Integration: The Path to Shared Contribution

• Item 13: Education & Human Development

• Item 14: Equal Dignity, Inclusion & Access

• Item 15: Veterans, Service Members & Military Families

CORNERSTONE I: GOVERNANCE BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE

1. Principles-Based Government That Works for the People We will rebuild trust by making government predictable, transparent, and accountable. By shifting away from decisions made behind closed doors, this administration will show its work and invite residents back into the shared project of self-government. This pillar ensures that every state decision is grounded in core principles like equal dignity, intergenerational responsibility, and environmental rights. It moves the state away from arbitrary or politically motivated decision-making. Following the Constitution, every decision will be grounded in core American principles:

• Ethics Transparency: Establish stricter conflict-of-interest and lobbyist disclosure rules for all state officials.

• Daily Citizen Dashboard: A statewide platform where residents can vote on priorities, submit ideas, and track their influence on decisions.

• Citizen Juries: Representative groups of Coloradans who deliberate on complex issues like water policy and land use.

• Weekly Public Briefings: “State of the State” explanations of major decisions.

• A Real-Time Public Input System: Built by the Office of Information Technology

• Intergenerational Election Reform: Hard limits on big influencers.

• Principles-First Framework: All major agency actions must be mapped to core values and explained in public memos.

• Legacy Impact Scoring: Evaluate long-term policies (like infrastructure or water) based on their impact on future generations.

• Rotating Oversight Bodies: Utilize diverse citizen assemblies and youth councils to prevent the consolidation of power.

This is not theory, these are administrative actions that begin on Day One guiding actual decisions, not just speeches.

2. Protecting Colorado’s Security and Sovereignty We will strengthen the systems that keep

Colorado safe. Colorado will act as a co-sovereign state that protects its autonomy, infrastructure, and residents from external interference or federal overreach. This pillar builds "quiet strength" through sophisticated, non-partisan defense of state authority.

Codify Non-Commandeering: Mitigating federal "conscription" of state employees for federal civil priorities.

• Sovereignty Review of Grants: Review federal agreements to ensure sensitive resident data is not shared without warrants.

• Quarterly Cybersecurity penetration tests: Cybersecurity upgrades and unannounced tests on county election systems and rural water districts.

• Bipartisan Civil Liberties Board: Create an oversight board to review Guard deployments, upgrades and advanced technologies.

• Preparing for future threats both foreign and domestic.

• Increased Infrastructure Protection and faster, more coordinated emergency response

• Elite State Security: We will launch a premier Colorado State Security Force by offering a $50,000 "Transition Grant" to recruit federal agents into state service, poaching federal talent to serve as dedicated Colorado assets.

• Sovereignty & Trust: By enforcing a "State Sovereignty Firewall" under SB25-276, we will end federal civil overreach and replace administrative chaos with a "Good Neighbor" model that prioritizes community peace and constitutional integrity.

• Scientific Stewardship: This strategic realignment shifts our resources from federal enforcement to Colorado’s true priorities: defending our water rights, lowering the cost of living, and leading the SkyCarbon Frontier to secure our atmospheric future.

3. Budget, Revenue & Long-Term Fiscal Stability. In a state limited by TABOR, can these much-needed upgrades to Colorado be achieved? Yes! Under Governor Komor, we will stabilize Colorado's finances through "Economic Sovereignty", building state-owned assets. We will focus on closing loopholes and making creative investments to fund priorities like mental health. Most importantly, we will aggressively expand "Government-Owned Enterprises," such as the Colorado Infrastructure Bank and the SkyCarbon Enterprise. Because these entities are funded by fees for services (like carbon sequestration leases or interest on infrastructure loans) and receive less than 10% of their revenue from state grants, they are constitutionally exempt from TABOR limits. This creates a "sovereign wealth" loop that funds major priorities without triggering tax-increase requirements.

• Colorado Public Investment Fund (CPIF): Generate revenue by taking equity stakes in Colorado-based startups, particularly in energy and tech.

• Close "Unitary Business" Loopholes: Prevent corporations from shifting profits to low-tax states to ensure they pay their fair share.

• TABOR Smoothing for Mental Health: Refer a measure to voters allowing the state to retain revenue specifically for fentanyl and mental health treatment.

• Modernize State Land Leasing: Shift state land use from "spending" to "investing" by leasing pore space for carbon sequestration.

• Building state-owned assets that generate long-term revenue. Every element of society paying its fair share.

CORNERSTONE II: REPAIRING THE LIVING ENVIRONMENT

4. Clean Air, Clean Water, Safe Soils Colorado will enforce environmental standards with the same seriousness we apply to public safety. We will focus on zero-tolerance monitoring and holding polluters directly accountable for restoration. The fracking debacle that happened under the watch of our opponents and now threatens the health and safety of vast numbers of Coloradans will not be allowed to happen again.

• Establish the Colorado Environmental Protection Agency (CEPA): Consolidating fragmented oversight from multiple agencies into one unified enforcement body. (Discussion: The Governor cannot unilaterally create a new principal department because the Administrative Organization Act of 1968 requires statutory authorization for such a shift. To solve this we will launch the "Executive Science Initiative", or “Executive Consolidation Directive” on Day One. This uses the Governor’s power to reorganize functions within the executive branch to create a "virtual" CEPA through a Binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the DNR, ECMC, and CDPHE. This MOU will mandate that these agencies operate under a unified leadership council and shared monitoring data immediately while the formal "Department Reorganization Act" moves through the legislature. By designating a single Science & Enforcement Lead to oversee concurrent divisions across these agencies and unifying their data streams into the Zero-Tolerance Monitoring System, the we can n achieve the operational goals of a unified agency on Day One without waiting for legislative restructuring.)

• Zero-Tolerance Monitoring: Deploy a statewide IoT sensor array for real-time air and water monitoring with a public dashboard.

• Mandatory Cleanup Timelines: Implement the "If you make a mess, you clean it up" doctrine with tough consequences for violators. (Discussion: Granting the state authority to place liens on the personal assets of corporate executives requires new statutory authority that is legally complex. The immediate solution is the "Remediation Surety Bond Mandate." Using existing regulatory authority over industrial permits, the administration can require that companies in high-impact sectors (mining, energy) fund a Remediation Surety Bond upfront as a condition of their permit. This ensures the cleanup funds are secured and legally "air-gapped" from the corporation's internal finances, achieving the goal of the "Colorado Cleanup Doctrine" without needing to wait for a change in personal liability laws.)

• Colorado Stewardship Corps: A protection program dedicated to wildfire mitigation, habitat restoration, and trail maintenance. Strong protection for wildlife, water, and land.

• Wildfire Prevention And Rapid-Response Systems

• Climate science integrated into every major decision

• Water security and drought resilience. A hydrologic trigger mandate - automatically reduce water deliveries to lower-basin states if reservoir levels drop below critical safety tiers.

• "Sponge Landscape" Initiative: Restore 500 miles of wetlands to serve as natural wildfire buffers and water storage.

• Carbon-Negative Infrastructure: Mandate the use of captured carbon in concrete for all state highway projects by 2027.

• This is environmental stewardship, not limp rhetoric.

5. The Colorado SkyCarbon Plan: A Blueprint for Survival & Prosperity

• How the Technology Works: Atmospheric Reclamation Instead of just reducing new emissions, we will deploy Direct Atmospheric Carbon Removal (DACR) to actively "mine" the 900 gigatons of legacy CO2currently overheating our atmosphere.

• The Process: Modular DACR facilities use fans and chemical captures to pull CO2directly from ambient air.

• Storage & Transformation: Once captured, the CO2is either sequestered in deep geologic formations (like Colorado’s basalt-rich zones) or converted into Recovered Carbon (R-CO2), a valuable feedstock.

• The "Carbon Renaissance": This shift moves us from "sinking ship" mitigation to "planetary repair," reclaiming the atmosphere as a managed resource.

• The Capitalization: How We Pay For It We will fund this infrastructure through executive and legislative mechanisms that treat climate stability as a necessary public utility:

• Climate Stabilization Fee: A fractional utility surcharge (e.g., $\$0.002/kWh$) that can generate hundreds of millions annually without a legislative vote.

• Green Bonds: Issuing DACR-backed bonds framed as dual-return assets: protecting the climate while generating future R-CO2 revenue.

• Penny Shifts: Reallocating existing sales tax fractions or budget line items,"No new taxes, just a penny shift to protect the sky".

• Matching Grants: Pre-allocating state funds to unlock billions in federal (IRA/DOE) or philanthropic matches.

• The Economic Upside: Jobs and GDP Colorado is ranked as a top-tier state for $R-CO_2$ Profit Potential due to our legal innovation and land-based removal capacity.

• Job Creation: Based on DOE estimates, this build-out can create 4 to 5 million jobs during the initial five-year mobilization, stabilizing at 2 million ongoing operations and maintenance roles.

• Commodity Engine: R-CO2 is a feedstock for a new industrial sector. It can be embedded into:

• Infrastructure: R-CO2-cured concrete and asphalt for roads and bridges.

• Manufacturing: Biodegradable plastics, synthetic aviation fuels, and even consumer goods like textiles.

• Fiscal Impact: The R-CO2 market is projected to reach $10-25$ trillion by 2050. By acting now, Colorado can capture its share of an estimated $\$9.4$ trillion in annual revenue potential across the Blueprint states.

CORNERSTONE III: ECONOMIC SOVEREIGNTY

6. Corporate Accountability & Economic Fair Play This Operational Area rewards "good actors" who invest in Colorado while holding "bad actors" accountable for broken promises or environmental damage. It promotes a fair-market system where corporations have no special rights above the public interest. This is fair-market governance, not anti-business rhetoric.

• Incentives for companies that invest in Colorado

• Mandatory Incentive Clawbacks: Require corporations to pay back state tax credits if they fail to meet wage or job targets.

• Employee Ownership Incentives: Offer tax credits for businesses transitioning to ESOPs or cooperatives.

• "Living Wage" Procurement Preference: Award a 20% preference on state contracts to bidders paying 110% of the local median wage.

• Colorado Cleanup Doctrine: Aggressively enforce "If you make a mess, you clean it up" for corporate polluters. Tough consequences for polluters and promise-breakers.

7. Lower Cost of Living & Better Jobs We will use state tools to reduce costs and expand opportunity and address the fact that 9 in 10 Coloradans see the cost of living as a serious problem. This pillar uses state tools to lower bills and expand high-wage opportunities. It treats affordability as a systemic issue involving housing, healthcare, and wages.

• Accelerated housing construction (Discussion: Municipalities are likely to litigate against state-level zoning overrides, citing Colorado’s robust "Home Rule" constitutional protections. We will redefine housing production as a "Matter of Statewide Concern," a legal threshold that allows state law to supersede local ordinances. Instead of a blunt mandate, the administration will utilize the "Infrastructure-Tied Funding" model. By conditioning discretionary state grants for water, transportation, and broadband on local compliance with housing targets, the state exerts financial "soft power" that bypasses the legal risks of a direct zoning mandate.)

• Lower healthcare costs: through transparency and competition

• Support for small businesses and rural economies

• Lower Systemic Costs: Utilize state authority to reduce bills for housing, healthcare, and insurance.

• High-Wage Training Pipelines: Create direct paths to jobs in clean energy, water tech, and skilled trades.

• Labor Enforcement Coordination Council: Coordinate across agencies to aggressively protect worker rights and safety.

• Statewide Wage Growth: Incentivize companies to pay at least 110% of the local median wage.

8. Real Solutions to the Housing Crisis This "production-first" strategy targets the structural shortage of homes by overriding restrictive zoning and fast-tracking construction. It focuses on building enough homes at prices people can afford while protecting renters from speculative price spikes.

• Build housing on state-owned land.

• Acquire Speculative Buildings: The state will buy buildings before they flip to out-of-state investors to keep them affordable.

• Targeted renter protections that stabilize families.

• Infrastructure-Tied Funding: Tie state funding for water and transportation to local compliance with housing targets.

• Faster, simpler building rules that cut months off construction timelines.

• Override Exclusionary Zoning: Require "by-right" multifamily and "missing middle" housing in areas rich with jobs and transit.

9. High-Quality, Affordable Healthcare for Every Coloradan We will make healthcare simpler, cheaper, and more reliable. This pillar creates a practical "Health Security Covenant" to ensure healthcare is simpler, cheaper, and more reliable. It builds a state-level system that shields Coloradans from federal volatility while expanding access for children and seniors.

• Automatic enrollment for children

• Lower drug and hospital costs through transparency and negotiation

• Universal Baseline Coverage: Implement an automatic enrollment system for all children and universal essential care.

• Strengthen the "Colorado Option": Make the state-run plan the default for those without employer-sponsored coverage.

• Transparent Price Negotiation: Use radical transparency to lower drug and hospital costs through direct negotiation.

• Dignity in Aging: Expand support for seniors to age safely at home with increased home-care provider pipelines.

• (Discussion: GO: The Senior Care "Bridge" Pipeline (Workforce Shortages) A critical shortage of home-care aides and primary care providers threatens the "Dignity in Aging" mandate, which aims to help seniors age at home. The solution is the "Senior Health Security Covenant" Tuition-Swap. Under this program, the state will provide full tuition reimbursement for any student entering a certified nursing assistant (CNA) or home health aide program who commits to a two-year service contract in a rural or high-need Colorado community. By utilizing 1115 Medicaid Waiver funds to cover these training costs, the state can rapidly expand the provider pipeline without requiring a new legislative appropriation.)

CORNERSTONE IV: RESTORING THE SOCIAL FABRIC

10. Homelessness: Housing + Health, Not Chaos We will replace the current patchwork with a coordinated, health-led "Housing First" system. It emphasizes that jails and ERs are not mental health policy, focusing instead on permanent supportive housing with embedded services.

• ACT Teams: Expand Assertive Community Treatment teams to bring counseling and psychiatric care directly to residents. Crisis teams instead of jail or ER cycles.

• No Discharge to Homelessness: Ensure that no one is released from a hospital, jail, or foster care onto the street.

• Supportive Housing & Recovery Fund: Consolidate fragmented funding into a single, results-based stream for local initiatives. Housing First with real behavioral-health support.

• Public Order + Compassion: Enforce public space standards only when paired with a credible, immediate offer of shelter and treatment.

• Prevention programs: that keep people from falling into homelessness.

11. Public Safety: The Standard for Compassion & Protection Colorado’s peace is built on the twin pillars of strength and service. Our goal is to empower law enforcement to ‘Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick’, ensuring the power of the state is felt through its helpfulness, while its strength remains a predictable and swift deterrent to those who harm the public.

• The Good Neighbor Initiative: Transition from a "Citation-First" culture to a "Service-First" model. We will implement Neighborly Performance Metrics (NPMs) where departments receive state grants based on "Service Actions", such as helping a stranded motorist, securing a neighborhood after a storm, or de-escalating a mental health crisis, rather than ticket quotas.

• The "Big Stick" Doctrine: Provide our officers with the most advanced protective equipment and technical training in the nation. When a crime occurs, the response must be swift and technically superior. We fund the tools for safety, so the attitude can remain neighborly.

• The Professionalization Fund: Increased state funding specifically for "Civilian-Adjacent" training, equipping officers with the tools to act as community problem-solvers while maintaining a 24/7 posture of high-readiness for public defense.

• Transparency & Misinformation Dashboard: A public, real-time portal to debunk false claims regarding public security, ensuring the community has a "Single Source of Truth" during times of high tension.

• 12. Immigration & Integration: The Path to Shared Contribution We address immigration with the same calm predictability we apply to our industry. Colorado is a state of laws and a state of neighbors; we expect contribution and provide a clear, fair pathway for those who wish to build a future here.

• Office of New Americans (ONA) Hub: Centralizing all immigration integration into a high-efficiency "Front Door" for the state. This hub provides emergency navigation, legal clarity, and workforce placement.

• Linguistic Integration & Expectations: We will expand the Career-Aligned English program. Integration is a "Two-Way Street"; we provide the resources for English fluency and civic education, and we expect newcomers to utilize them as a prerequisite for full participation in our economy.

• Entanglement Protections: To maintain the "Neighborly" trust in local law enforcement, we reaffirm that state and local resources will not be used for federal civil immigration enforcement. Our police are here to protect the community, not to act as administrative agents for the federal government.

• From Grievance to Contribution: We focus on matching "New American" talent with our growing SkyCarbon Frontier and industrial needs, turning a partisan flashpoint into a shared economic engine.

13. Education & Human Development This pillar focuses on professionalizing public education and supporting the "whole child" without engaging in divisive culture wars. It prioritizes teacher pay and life-skills alongside core academics to prepare students for the next century.

• Nation-Leading Teacher Pay: Implement a professional salary scale to attract and keep top educators in Colorado schools.

• Universal Early Childhood Access: Ensure every child in the state has access to high-quality early learning.

• Prohibit Private School Vouchers: Ensure public education funds remain in public schools to benefit all students.

• Curriculum Reform: Integrate civics, ethics, mental health, and environmental education into the standard curriculum.

This is a professionalization of education, not a culture war.

14. Equal Dignity, Inclusion & Access The administration will protect equal opportunity and inclusion based on dignity and safety rather than ideology. It focuses on removing barriers for all residents, particularly those with disabilities, to ensure full participation in state life.

• Expand Youth Counseling: Significantly increase the number of school counselors and adolescent identity support.

• Support for teens without politicization.

• Disability Inclusion Enforcement: Strengthen and enforce access standards across all state-funded services and infrastructure.

• "Inclusion Without Ideology" Standards: Set statewide standards that frame inclusion as dignity, safety, and opportunity.

• Public Inclusion Dashboards: Track and report on accessibility and workforce inclusion progress statewide.

15. Veterans, Service Members & Military Families We will honor service with real support. Colorado will honor service with practical, veteran-reported support rather than just slogans. This pillar integrates veterans into the state’s workforce and ensures their families have a stable, affordable life.

Expanded Peer Support: Strengthen mental health and family stability services led by those who understand the military experience.

Lower cost of living.

Veteran Job Pipelines: Launch programs that recognize military skill sets for high-wage state and private sector roles.

No Homeless Veterans: A state guarantee that every veteran in Colorado will have access to stable housing.

Military Cost of Living Relief: Targeted support to ensure military families are not priced out of the communities they serve.

The Bottom Line

Every item in the Komor for Governor plan is tied to:

• Real Authority

• Real Timelines

• Real Agencies

• Real Implementation

Colorado doesn’t need more promises. Colorado needs a governor who will do the work you asked for. This plan is how we do it.