Proposal would keep Colorado on Mountain Daylight Time

A Lakewood couple is making a jump into politics with a ballot question asking voters to permanently put Colorado on Mountain Daylight Time.

Some ballot initiatives are big operations with paid signature gatherers. This one so far includes only 35-year-old Sean Johnson and his wife, Teri.

Mountain Daylight Time runs from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, when clocks are moved back an hour for Mountain Standard Time.

Johnson says staying on daylight time year-round would help worker productivity and keep an extra hour of sunlight in the evening during the winter.

Johnson, who works as a personal trainer, hopes family, friends, and volunteers interested in the proposal will help gather the more than 86,100 signatures needed to put the question on the November 2016 ballot.