Rats. 

A Colorado Republican Party officer is threatening to sell off the party’s office supplies unless he is paid $1,500. GOP Secretary Russ Andrews, who is also running to represent the Roaring Fork Valley at the state legislature, has apparently been storing a U-Haul truck’s worth of staplers and phones and filing cabinets and such in his Carbondale barn and now he wants to get paid.

This week, a comparatively minuscule number of Colorado Democrats and Republicans will gather at churches and elementary schools around the state to engage in one of American democracy’s most arcane, useless, and undemocratic processes: caucus. And while I commend each and every one of the civically engaged Coloradans who chooses to participate — a number which even in Presidential election years has come to roughly 5% of eligible voters — I believe it is also high time for our thoroughly modern state to abolish the antiquated process which has long since been supplanted by more reliable and accessible methods of participation.