Douglas County, Colorado
Navy veteran (Lt. Commander), healthcare strategist, former Douglas County GOP Chair, and former Douglas County School Board Director. An advocate for civic engagement, election integrity, and limited government.
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Steven Peck is a Navy Medical Service Corps veteran who achieved the rank of Lt. Commander, combining his military service with a career in healthcare strategy. He holds a B.S. in Political Science/Economics from Andrews University and an MBA in Healthcare Management from Loma Linda University.
Peck has been prominently active in Colorado conservative politics. He served as Chairman of the Douglas County Republican Party and was sworn in to the Douglas County School District Board of Education in 2016. He has also served as a board member of Ascent Classical Academy.
His advocacy work spans multiple areas including free market solutions in education and business, election integrity, and limited government. He was active in the Re-Open Colorado movement and has been involved in various conservative advocacy efforts throughout the state.
Peck moved to Douglas County in 2014 with his wife Sarah and their two children, Brielle and Eli. He appeared on the Kim Monson Show in May 2023 to discuss education policy and local government issues.
January 26, 2024
Civic Engagement & Grassroots
Rick Turnquist exposes Democrat energy failures while Steve Peck discusses GOP unity on the January 26, 2024 Kim Monson Show with Lorne Levy and Karen Levine.
“If we don't hang together, we will hang separately. Christ and then Lincoln said a house divided itself cannot stand. So even if we had a majority, which we don't, the infighting is not productive.”
October 24, 2023
Ballot Measures & TABOR
Susan Kochevar on capitalism, Jill Vecchio on net neutrality, government sur, Steve Peck on douglas county school district, Dave DiCarlo on school board race...
“There is zero relationship between the amount of money spent on a child's education and academic outcomes. There's this persistent belief that if you spend more money, you'll get better results. That's been proven to be false over and over and over again.”
July 31, 2023
Ballot Measures & TABOR
David Tice warns of power grid vulnerabilities while Toby Damisch and Steve Peck expose Prop HH's deceptive property tax scheme. July 31, 2023.
“Douglas County is proudly Ruby Red and we want it to stay that way. I like to talk about Douglas County being the Florida of Colorado, because we want people that want small government that's manageable and accountable.”
May 25, 2023
Civic Engagement & Grassroots
Kim Monson examines skyrocketing property taxes with Douglas County GOP Chair Steven Peck and Josh Lallement on May 25, 2023.
“There is inertia on the side of growth and adding FTEs, raising taxes, building buildings, buying buildings, and just expanding the overall footprint of the school district, because that's what bureaucracies do.”
March 21, 2023
Colorado Politics & Policy
Kim Monson hosts Epoch Times reporter Nathan Worcester on GOP responses to Trump's potential arrest and newly elected Douglas County GOP leaders Steve Peck and Matt Emerson. March 21, 2023.
“Yeah, I think on the right, you were talking, comparing the party to a bunch of wild mustangs are all going their own direction.”
January 23, 2023
Civic Engagement & Grassroots
Dr. Michael Rechtenwald, Brad Beck, Steve Peck, Matt Emerson. January 23, 2023.
“Why would I give more money to an organization that's propagating ideas that are antithetical to the American experiment? That is insane.”
“The education system is doing this, right? People say, well, it's not happening at my neighborhood school. It is. It is happening at your school. It is happening at your school. Now, if you want to pretend it's not, okay, fine. You live in an alternate universe. But it is happening.”
October 26, 2022
Ben Martin traces Revolutionary War turning points while Steve Peck and Kim Gilmartin discuss Colorado school choice battles. October 26, 2022.
“all of these candidates, they fundamentally believe in choice. Yes. But more than that, they believe that schools should be teaching kids how to think, not what to think. It's a big, big distinction there.”
“The reading advancements that we've made over the last 30 years have been washed away. And here in Colorado, only 40 percent of third graders can read at grade level.”
October 11, 2022
EV fire hazards, rising crime, and school choice with Lauren Fix, Gabe Evans, Corey DeAngelis, and Steve Peck. October 11, 2022.
“Which is a critical thing to know because if you're not reading by the end of third grade, the research shows that you're four times more likely to drop out of high school.”
August 12, 2022
Greg Walcher exposes water and forest policy failures while Steve Peck analyzes the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. The Kim Monson Show, August 12, 2022.
“What happened on the 8th of August, I think will go down as a bookend of one of the chapters in American history, which sounds pretty dramatic. But what happened was exceedingly dramatic.”
“My hope is that people see what's going on here and that they're going to get involved and that they're going to take back every council seat, every school board seat, every local parks and trails committee person and step into this tradition that we have in America of participating in self-government.”
October 7, 2020
Ballot Measures & TABOR
Steve Peck, Samantha Koch, and Matt Durkin join Kim Monson to discuss Proposition 118, community safety, and the 2020 election on October 7, 2020.
“Child care costs more than college and you have all those years to save for college.”
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