A councilman told a forum on civility that Palmer Lake refused a Buc-ee’s and got it built anyway. The town forced the company out. Nothing is being built.
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The Final Countdown: Who Is Funding El Paso County’s Next Commissioners
Before El Paso County’s June 30 primary: which commissioner candidates are funded by developers versus individual donors, by district — and how to vote.
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Choose Wisely
Buc-ee’s lost a public vote in Palmer Lake, then bought the land anyway and turned to El Paso County — where a citizen never gets to vote, where the Board of County Commissioners has denied just two of 476 land-use decisions since 2018 — neither a housing or commercial development — and where the company is now trying to avoid even that board. An examination of eight years of votes, two decades of campaign money, and the small circle of people who keep electing one another.
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Permission Granted: A County Board That Has Never Said No
Since 2021 the El Paso County commissioners have approved every land-use application they have voted on. Follow the money, and the pattern looks less like coincidence.
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Follow the Money: Buc-ee’s, the Ford Amphitheater Network, and the 2026 Commissioner Races
Who is funding the District 1 and District 5 candidates, what the money wants, and why the June 30 primary will likely decide the Buc-ee’s vote before any application is filed.