Sounding like former President Donald Trump equating people on both sides of the white supremacist march in Charlottesville in 2017, Vincent Bzdek, the executive editor of Republican billionaire Phil Anschutz’s media outlets in Colorado, said earlier this month that he’s “not sure” he sees a distinction among CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News.
A Colorado lawmaker accused Democrats this week of “intentionally running” legislation to “create abortion tourism,” going so far as to say visitors to Colorado can “go skiing for a week and then on the way home they can get their abortion.”
An executive at Colorado Christian University said last week that colleges and universities are “so woke, so broken, so godless” that they are doing “harm” to students.
DeSantis Shortly after the Republicans’ mind-altering loss last year’s election, Trump-hating Republican pundit Dick Wadhams wrote in Colorado Politics that if Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis runs in 2024, “Colorado might be in play.”
When it comes to explaining why conservatives lose so many elections in Colorado, what we see is establishment Republicans — exemplified by hopping-mad GOP strategist Dick Wadhams — blaming their own powerlessness on the election deniers and Trump supporters, including those who control the Colorado Republican Party.
Every second Saturday of the month at its headquarters on 17th Avenue, the Independence Institute hosts a “Barter Market,” ostensibly for freedom-loving citizens to exchange goods and avoid sales tax. Items listed as either on offer or requested at the monthly gathering include organic local food items, homemade candles and guitar lessons, but also more conspiracy-minded products like “EMF protection clothing,” chlorine dioxide (a dangerous solution billed as a cure-all, including for COVID), and accounting services to “opt out of the IRS.”
A Colorado talk radio host, who got lots of backslaps from alienated Republicans when she announced she left the Republican Party earlier this month, is now saying she would “probably” vote for Trump if he’s the GOP nominee.
When he decided not to seek another term as leader of the Colorado Republican Party, Dick Wadhams wrote in a 2011 good-riddance letter to fellow Republicans that he was tired of GOP activists who see “conspiracies around every corner.” (Emphasis: That was 2011.)
You may have noticed ads flying around online from the Denver Gazette urging you to “leave” The Denver Post “in the past” and turn to the Gazette for “news you can trust.”
When Colorado Republican mega-donor Steve Wells turns his attention to the immigration problems along the southern border, he concludes that “everything that’s going on is extremely intentional.”
