Across Colorado, county clerks are preparing for the first presidential election since former President Donald Trump denied the results of his 2020 loss. The conspiracy theories he and his supporters promoted ultimately led not only to the attack on our country’s Capitol, but to localized threats of violence against election officials nationwide as well as here in Colorado.
For a few hours this week, the Colorado Republican Party supported gay rights, or at least gay marriage.
Republican congressional candidate Gabe Evans fired his political director yesterday, following the Colorado Times Recorder’s report on her extensive record of antisemitic, conspiratorial, and violent posts on Facebook.
Gabe Evans’ Political Director Jessica Spindle has been working to get him elected to office for years, ever since his first run for statehouse in 2022. Evans is now challenging Congresswoman Yadira Caraveo for Colorado’s 8th Congressional District, in a race that’s expected to be one of the nation’s most competitive contests. She’s been on staff as Evans’ political director for his congressional campaign since April, but she’s been a relentless sharer of antisemitism, conspiracy theories, and calls for political violence for much, much longer.
Defiance defined Saturday’s meeting of some members of the Colorado Republican Party’s Central Committee. Comprised almost exclusively of supporters of Dave Williams, the meeting was essentially a MAGA celebration for the former state representative, who insists he is still in charge.
The battle for control of the Colorado Republican Party is coming at a measurable cost to its fundraising, both at the state and local level.
Colorado’s legislature reconvened this week for a special session called for a single purpose: removing Initiatives 50 & 108 from this November’s ballot. The measures, backed by anonymous right-wing donors, would slash taxes so drastically that a bipartisan coalition of dozens of statewide groups wrote a letter to Governor Jared Polis two weeks ago, pleading with him to call the Legislature back to deal with the “significant and very real threat to all communities.”
On the campaign trail, congressional candidate Gabe Evans talks a lot about his experience in the military, police force, and Colorado Legislature.
In a rare display of bipartisanship, advocacy groups from across the political spectrum joined together to call on Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) to convene a special session of the state Legislature to negotiate the end of a pair of tax-cutting ballot initiatives that would gut the state’s budget so severely that even most conservative groups are opposed to them. Club 20? Not a bunch of libs. Neither are the Colorado Contractors Association, or NAIOP Colorado, which is the state chapter of the Commercial Real Estate Development Association.
As former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters’ trial on multiple election fraud-related felonies continues, a handful of supporters have gathered each day, both inside and outside the courtroom, to support her. Among them, at least for a time, is one of the Colorado Republican Party’s top officials: Republican National Committeewoman Christy Fidura. She posts on Facebook using the name, “Chrissy Ruckus.”
