During a podcast interview this month, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-CO) former campaign manager, Sherronna Bishop, says that Boebert is “struggling” but has done “exactly what we asked her to do in Congress.”
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‘The Pro-life Community Finds Themselves on Their Heels:’ Activists React to National Abortion Ballot Measures
This month voters in Ohio passed a ballot initiative, Issue 1, that enshrined reproductive rights in the Ohio Constitution — contraception, fertility treatment, abortion, and miscarriage care — restoring Roe v. Wade-era access in Ohio and protecting “the right to abortion up to the point of fetal viability.” Former President Donald Trump carried Ohio with 53% of the vote in 2020, but 56.6% of voters supported Issue 1. Ohio joins California, Michigan, and Vermont in amending their state constitutions to protect abortion, and this has anti-abortion activists concerned.
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Bill to Help Renters Reveals Dems’ Secret ‘Agenda’ To ‘Drive People Out of Home Ownership,’ Says GOP Lawmaker
Republicans are fuming this morning about a bill pushed by Democrats over the weekend aimed at providing modest relief to struggling Coloradans who’ve faced steady rent increases.
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GOP Legislator Suggests Coloradans Could Use Rent Aid Checks to ‘Buy Cocaine All Day’
Colorado’s legislators returned to the Capitol yesterday, answering the Governor’s call for a special session to address skyrocketing property taxes following voters rejection of Prop HH. Progressives criticized the initiative in part for offering insufficient aid to the third of Coloradans who rent rather than own. In the first hearing of the session, House legislators debated a bill to create a $30M rental relief fund administered by the Division of Housing in partnership with housing nonprofits.
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Statehouse Republicans Divided Over Predictions for Special Session
With Republicans relegated to super-minority status in the Colorado House (and nearly so in the Senate), they will have little leverage during the special session of the state Legislature set to begin tomorrow. But in radio interviews this week, caucus leadership nevertheless presented a united front via a pair of bills. Minority Leader Mike Lynch (R-Wellington), Assistant Minority Leader Rose Pugliese (R-Colorado Springs), and Senator Barb Kirkmeyer (R-Weld County), who sits on the powerful Joint Budget Committee, are all promoting the same proposal while saying they believe a compromise can be reached with Democrats. However, other GOP legislators and the state party share neither their optimism nor their policy goals.
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Colorado Republican Election Deniers Celebrate Their Takeover of State Party
"So everybody, send money to the GOP."
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Dinesh D’Souza, Creator of ‘2000 Mules,’ Must Defend Film’s Election Denial Claims in Court
Conspiracy theorist and former Christian leader Dinesh D’Souza has failed to halt a defamation lawsuit brought against him and others behind the popular election denial film 2000 Mules and defend his widely debunked movie’s supposed evidence in a courtroom.
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Environmental Group Ranks Colorado 7th in Progress Toward Aligning Transporation Policy with Climate Goals
A report by the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a national environmental group, found that Colorado ranks seventh in the nation for the state’s progress toward aligning transportation policy with state and national climate goals.
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Leadership Institute Training: Action Items for Newly Conservative School Boards
This weekend, approximately 30 school board members, activists, and engaged citizens attended the Leadership Institute’s School Board and Education Policy Summit at the Colorado Springs Marriott. Founded in 1979 by Morton C. Blackwell, the conservative activist who was the youngest delegate for Barry Goldwater in 1964 and served as special assistant to Ronald Reagan, the Leadership Institute is an “explicitly conservative” 501(c)3 nonprofit that conducts a variety of political trainings across the country.
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Colorado Republican Party Censures GOP State Senator, Shares Video Calling for His Resignation
The Colorado Republican Party today not only announced its censure of state Sen. Larry Liston (R-Colo Springs), but shared a video calling on him to resign immediately.