Douglas County Commissioner Jill Repella will join gubernatorial nominee Bob Beauprez at the top of the ticket this fall, his campaign confirmed.
The lieutenant governor nominee will join Beauprez on an eight-stop”Unity” tour across the state Wednesday, his campaign said. The tour will also include the three men Beauprez beat for the GOP nomination on June 24 — Tom Tancredo, Scott Gessler and Mike Kopp
Repella is a fifth generation Colorado native who lives in Highlands Ranch. Her county bio touts, “She comes from a long line of proud Colorado citizens.”
Repella was first elected to the three-member commission in 2008 and re-elected in 2012.Term limits prevent her from seeing re-election.
Repella represents Douglas County on local and regional boards that deal with county government, tourism and resorts, transportation, commerce, and water issues.
She also has served on the county’s planning commission, school board, housing partnership, open space advisory committee and and the Highlands Ranch Metropolitan District board.
Her bio states she has “the most passion and commitment is economic development.”
It continues, “She believes it is a fundamental role of government to facilitate and maintain a fertile environment for business — an environment in which jobs can be created that will in turn create economic well-being and quality of life for the County’s citizens.”
Repella has worked for more than 12 years in commercial space planning and architecture. She has degrees from the University of Denver and Colorado State University. Repella also attended the University of Colorado at Denver.
Tuesday was the statutory deadline one week after Beauprez’s nomination.
In 2006, Beauprez picked a first-term Mesa County commissioner, Janet Rowland, who was at the center of a controversy within hours of the announcement.
A tape surfaced in which Rowland had sometime earlier said of gay marriage, “Do we allow a man to marry a sheep?”
Beauprez and Rowland lost by 17 points to Bill Ritter that November.
In this year’s primary, Rowland endorsed a Beauprez opponent, Mike Kopp.
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