Northwest Colorado, the Republican parts of it anyway, remains solidly Trump country despite his felony convictions last month on 34 counts in New York. Trump’s Colorado golden boy, however — state Republican Party Chair Dave Williams — may be on a bit shakier ground.
On June 4, the Rio Grande Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) held a discussion on the integrity of the Dominion Voting machines used for its elections. Although the BOCC had already approved to move ahead with a recent Dominion upgrade, they requested this work session to answer questions about the voting system.
The Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment (CDPHE) announced in a press release last week that children and families need to ensure that their vaccines are up to date. Public health officials are requesting that people schedule their appointments now. In Colorado, there are many vaccine requirements for child care and school.
Last week, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released its annual report of hate and antigovernment groups across the U.S. Among the 30 groups in Colorado identified by the report were four chapters of Moms for Liberty.
A few weeks before the Colorado Republican Party called for the burning of Pride flags, the organization sent out a mass email falsely claiming that parents of students attending Grand Peak Academy Charter School in Colorado Springs were told “their third-grade girls would be continuously forced to use the restroom with a grown male teacher who calls himself ‘Ms. Sparks’ and tells kids they can be any gender they want.”
The U.S. Supreme Court today unanimously ruled that the plaintiffs in the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine vs FDA suit lacked standing to challenge the FDA’s approval of medication abortion drug mifepristone.
The Trump Campaign won’t say whether Trump’s endorsement of Colorado congressional candidate Gabe Evans was influenced by Evans’ refusal to say, two days before the endorsement, whether he thinks the 2020 presidential election was legitimate or stolen from Trump.
by Brooke Larsen, High Country News June 6, 2024
As if there wasn’t sufficient unrest amongst Colorado Republicans at the moment, the Trump campaign has pulled its state director after just four months. Justin Everett is going to work on the upcoming convention for the Republican National Committee, leaving the state director post empty. Meanwhile state GOP chair Dave Williams must survive a resignation demand from many of his county party chairs, one of whom faces “undetermined consequences” for her actions calling out Williams. Buckle up.
If you say in the first act that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the third act it absolutely must go off,” reads one of the many versions of the narrative principle commonly known as “Chekhov’s gun”. Developed by 19th-century Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, Chekhov’s gun was the playwright’s way of insisting that every element in a story must ultimately be necessary; that there can be no insignificant details, and, therefore, that every detail carries a sense of imminence with it. Through my years of studying, analyzing, and working in politics, I have come to believe that a similar principle applies in real life: the details, often unnoticed at the time of their emergence, have a way of coming back and turning the plot like Chekhov’s gun.
