The Republican Party wields no official power at the state level in Colorado. Since 2020, the GOP has been shut out of every statewide office and control of either chamber of the state Legislature. Despite the party’s ouster from official authority, though, one group of Colorado Republicans has figured out how to work within the new reality, and has succeeded in driving conservative issues forward at the state level without a governor, attorney general, or state Legislature on their side.
About 2,500 years ago, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus noted that the only constant in life is change. In all the time which has passed since that observation, some people still haven’t gotten the message – something which was proven again last week when the conservatives at Advance Colorado took a break from being the sole remaining political threat faced by Colorado Democrats and indulged one of American conservatism’s least serious impulses: kneejerk rage at a minor change.
Blazing a possible bipartisan path in Colorado toward recognizing Joe Biden as president, former Colorado Republican Gov. Bill Owens wrote on Facebook Sunday that there were “relatively few cases of voter fraud” in this month’s presidential election.
Throughout their successful campaign to defeat Proposition CC, opponents of the ballot measure argued that the state of Colorado doesn’t need more money. It just needs to change its budget priorities. But how?
