Matt Alexander
District 60 - Republican Party
How does your experience make you qualified to represent the people?
I am a fourth-generation Colorado native, born in Alamosa. I’m not a career politician; I’m a conservative small business owner who has spent 20 years operating a landscaping company in Fremont County. I know what it means to sign the front of a paycheck and fight inflation, tax increases and government overreach. My qualification to govern comes from real-world experience: I’ve served three terms as the Chairman of the Head Start Policy Council, President and other officer roles for the Canon City High School Marching Band Booster Program, working directly with families and community leaders, and I currently serve as a School Board Director on the Cañon City Schools Board of Education. Here my focus isn't rubber-stamping administrative paperwork; my role is serving as a point of strict accountability for the taxpayers, ensuring transparency, and protecting parental rights. I know how to ask the hard questions and stand firm under pressure.
What are your top policy priorities?
My top priority is defending our constitutional liberties and restoring local control to our communities. Specifically, focusing on these three areas:
Constitutional Fidelity & Individual Rights: I am an uncompromising defender of our Second Amendment rights and the sanctity of life. They are the core principles that define who I am.
Fiscal Responsibility: Colorado families are hurting. We must cut red tape for small businesses, cut taxes on small businesses, rein in reckless state spending, and protect TABOR to keep money in taxpayers' pockets.
Protecting Rural Colorado: For too long, the Front Range political establishment has dictated policies that harm our way of life. I will fight to protect our water rights and ensure our rural communities are no longer the second-place beneficiaries.
What is one issue you think is being overlooked in this race, and how would you address it?
The neglect of our rural infrastructure and emergency services, especially rural Sheriff’s Departments and our volunteer fire departments. They are not given the proper funding and attention they need. Right now, Denver operates like a King’s table at a giant feast, piled high with resources. Meanwhile, over in the corner, our rural communities are starving for just a few grapes, if you will. A tiny fraction of that feast would go an incredibly long way for us out here.
Volunteer fire districts protect hundreds of square miles of rugged terrain, including massive tracts of BLM and National Forest land, while absorbing the safety risks of millions of pass-through travelers. Yet, they are squeezed by expensive state mandates and left to beg for competitive grants.
I will address this by fighting to shift funding models so that a small portion of state Search and Rescue fees and Colorado Department of Wildlife revenues go directly back to the rural districts that handle the emergencies. We need to stop relying entirely on unpredictable grants, demand federal matching support for federal lands, and return actual resource control to the rural communities that keep Colorado safe.
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