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Dan Woog (i) Republican
Residence: Frederick
Profession: Real Estate
Education: Bachelor of Science, Kinesiology – Arizona State University
Experience: Representative, HD19: 2025 – Present
Representative, HD63: 2021 – 2023
Trustee, Town of Erie: 2013 – 2020
Planning & Zoning Commissioner, Town of Erie: 2012 – 2013
What are your top three priorities, if elected?
1. Affordability: Lower the cost of living by reducing taxes, protecting TABOR, and cutting the costs of insurance, energy, housing, and health care.
2. Safety: Get career criminals and drug dealers off the streets and back the blue by fully funding our law enforcement.
3. Better schools: Ensure more trade, technical, and vocational opportunities for young adults; raise the standards in our K-12 schools; get more education dollars to the classroom; provide parents curriculum transparency; and focus on the basics, particularly reading, writing, and arithmetic.
What specific actions would you support to improve affordability for Coloradans, whether aimed at housing costs, tax burdens or other impacts?
-Cut tax rates and defend the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights to ensure taxpayers get their refunds.
-Repeal the Public Utility Commission’s excessive and expensive energy regulations.
-Reduce insurance rates (auto, home, and health) by attracting more insurers to the state and eliminating expensive regulations and junk lawsuits.
-Expand the housing supply to promote affordable housing by creating a friendly regulatory and legal environment.
-Lower health care costs by ensuring price transparency and getting government and insurance companies out of the middle of the doctor-patient relationship.
Whether your party is in the majority or minority next year, where do you see actionable common ground with the opposing party?
I believe reasonable Republicans and Democrats can build successful coalitions on the following:
-Public safety: Incarcerate dangerous criminals and drug dealers so they are not free to roam the streets.
-Health care: Require providers to make available to the public pricing for treatments and procedures.
-Build up Colorado’s rainy-day fund in advance of the next economic downturn.
A new governor will take office next year. What opportunities are there for legislation or other changes that did not gain traction under Gov. Jared Polis?
I will work to bring balance to the Capitol by protecting our citizens from crazy Democratic Socialist policies. In all likelihood, Democrats will have full control of Colorado’s government next year. For the past eight years, Governor Polis has reined in some far-left policies. For example, he vetoed legislation to fully unionize Colorado’s workforce and he defended charter schools. Our next Governor is likely to be even more liberal than Polis. As a member of the minority party, I will work overtime to build coalitions across party lines to protect Coloradans from crazy, expensive, and job-killing Democratic Socialist policies.
Jillaire McMillan Democrat
Residence: Longmont
Profession: Mom, former nonprofit leader, small business owner
Education: BA in history, Boston College; MA in American history; Boston College
Experience: National nonprofit director of volunteers; co-founded marine robotics company with husband; Weld County Food Bank and Habitat for Humanity volunteer; PTA president; mother of four.
What are your top three priorities, if elected?
Affordability in housing and transportation: We need to increase inventory through more efficiency in permitting, public-private partnerships, and zoning flexibility. We need more public transit to decrease transportation costs and expand options for workers and families.
Environmental protections: Clean air and water are critical to preserving health and Colorado’s natural beauty. I will support policies that hold corporations accountable and commit to seeking green energy solutions while managing costs for ratepayers.
Healthcare access: I strongly support policies which promote enhanced healthcare coverage, support mental health providers, protect access to reproductive care, and invest in increasing the number of healthcare providers.
What specific actions would you support to improve affordability for Coloradans, whether aimed at housing costs, tax burdens or other impacts?
Making our communities more affordable through transportation and housing is a focus of my campaign. Improved public transit reduces transportation costs related to private vehicles and gives workers and families more flexibility with their budgets. I’m committed to supporting the Northwest Passenger Rail that will serve parts of my district and seeking expanded transit in other communities. We need to increase housing inventory by building the right type of housing where itap actually needed. We can address this by streamlining permitting processes, adjusting development fees to prioritize entry-level and middle income homes, and continuing to support housing near transit hubs.
Whether your party is in the majority or minority next year, where do you see actionable common ground with the opposing party?
I spent nearly a decade working with people from all along the political spectrum as a leader in a nonpartisan nonprofit. I value different perspectives and collaborative problem solving. I want to improve higher education pathways. By reviewing, revising, and enforcing laws related to credits that transfer from community colleges to universities, we can save students time and money while also putting more Coloradans into needed careers, such as healthcare. I believe most Coloradans want affordable education that prepares them for well-paying jobs and that legislators in both parties will be willing to work together to make that happen.
A new governor will take office next year. What opportunities are there for legislation or other changes that did not gain traction under Gov. Jared Polis?
The Worker Protection Act, which would eliminate the second election required by the Colorado Labor Peace Act for workers to fully organize as a union, was twice vetoed by Governor Polis in 2025 and 2026. I think itap very likely that legislation making it easier for Colorado workers to unionize will be brought forward under a new governor.
