About Jonathan

Jonathan has served as an Administrator of Finance, Assistant Superintendent, and Superintendent of a Colorado school district. In those administrative roles, his responsibilities included public budgets, financial administration, capital projects, and cash management.

His cash-management responsibilities included helping time short-term investments so that funds became available throughout the year as anticipated expenditures came due, while maintaining sufficient liquidity for unexpected needs.

Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance and a Master of Science in Management with a concentration in Information Technology. His career has also included teaching and work in transportation, construction, and his family's insurance business.

Jonathan and his wife have been married for thirty-eight years and raised six children.

Jonathan and family
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Willing to See It Through

In 2024, Jonathan filed campaign-finance complaints with the Colorado Secretary of State after identifying what he believed were significant questions about compliance with Colorado's campaign-finance reporting requirements.

The Secretary of State initially dismissed the complaints.

Jonathan believed the dismissal left important factual and legal questions unresolved. He chose to challenge the decision in court, representing himself as a pro se litigant. He researched the applicable law, prepared his own filings, and argued that the Secretary of State's decision should be overturned.

The challenge succeeded in part. The court affirmed the dismissal of older claims as untimely, but reversed the dismissal of the timely claims and returned them to the state for further investigation and proceedings.

Public decisions should withstand scrutiny, and difficult questions should not be abandoned simply because pursuing them becomes difficult.

Asked to Serve

The people who later asked Jonathan to run for Pueblo County Treasurer were familiar with that experience. They had watched him pursue the campaign-finance matter through the state process and continue after the original complaints were dismissed.

Jonathan, however, had not planned to be the candidate.

As the Republican county assembly approached, he encouraged others to consider running for Treasurer. When his own name was proposed at the assembly, he initially resisted the nomination.

After a procedural issue with the first nomination was resolved, Jonathan was nominated again. This time, numerous delegates joined in supporting the nomination and asking him to accept it.

He did.

Jonathan's candidacy did not begin with him seeking public office, but with people who knew him and had observed his work asking him to take on another responsibility.

Building Practical Solutions

In 2023, Jonathan saw a problem. County political organizations had access to enormous amounts of voter information, but many lacked practical and affordable tools to put that information to work.

So he decided to build one.

Jonathan created County Party Manager, or CPM, a web-based system that turns statewide voter information into tools local organizations can actually use. He designed the databases, wrote the software, and continues to maintain and develop the system as new needs arise.

Today, CPM manages millions of voter records and provides local organizations with tools for organizing precincts, understanding voter participation, and managing their work. Jonathan has also adapted the system for use by individual candidates.

Creating CPM required more than knowing how to write software. It required understanding the problem, breaking it into manageable pieces, working through failures, and continuing to improve the solution.

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