Jarvis Caldwell, who worked for the Colorado House Republicans as a legislative aide and later as communications director, announced Monday he will seek the House District 20 seat.

Rep. Don Wilson, R-Monument, who currently serves the district, announced recently he will not seek a second term and will instead run for El Paso County commissioner.

“Colorado is at a crossroads,” Caldwell said in a video announcement. “There are two paths. The path we’re currently on has led to record high spending, taxes, fees, unaffordability, and crime. We’ve seen infringements on our rights as parents, stealing of our TABOR refunds, and attacks on our Second Amendment.”

Caldwell said he supports school choice, crime reduction, fiscal conservatism and he will fight “against new and overburdening taxes, fees, and regulations that come from the Democrat-controlled General Assembly.”

“We must protect TABOR and fight back against the constant attacks on our Second Amendment. Coloradans are tired of Big Government squeezing our wallets every chance they get while passing record high budgets and attacking our constitutional rights at every turn,” he said. 

Caldwell was communications director for the House GOP from Oct. 2022 through Sept. 2023. He previously served as a legislative aide to Rep. Tim Geitner, R-Falcon, from Jan. 2022 to Oct. 2022. 

He is an Air Force veteran of 10 years, when he worked on the F-15E fighter aircraft during a deployment to Afghanistan in 2010. He also deployed for Operation Odyssey Dawn, meant to protect Libya’s civilian population under a United Nations mandate, in 2011. He served overseas on England and Korea before eventually joining the JAG Corps as a paralegal, working on prosecutorial teams in and around the Washington, D.C., area.

He is currently vice chair of the board of directors for the New Summit Charter Academy in Colorado Springs.

As of Monday, Caldwell is the only candidate for the seat.