Three of the most conservative Republican legislators in Colorado, along with a few activists, have founded a new political action committee called “We the Parents.” State Reps. Brandi Bradley (R-Roxborough Park), Stephanie Luck (R-Penrose), and Ken DeGraaf (R-CO Springs) announced the launch in a press release on Friday, titled “New Effort Launched to Flip Colorado Legislative Seats.”
About ten years ago, when I was working in the Colorado legislature, one of my brothers made an observation. “All of the craziest people in the country are state legislators,” he said. He didn’t mean that all state legislators are crazy, or that all crazy people are state legislators, but that each legislature has among its ranks a handful of its state’s craziest citizens. In my ongoing work with state legislatures around the country, I’m reminded of the quip at least once a week – because it turns out my brother was right.
Colorado Representatives Jarvis Caldwell (R-Monument) and Brandi Bradley (R-Littleton) took part in a panel discussion with Kate Anderson of Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and Laura Hanford of the Heritage Foundation during Moms for Liberty’s Aurora town hall on Colorado’s House Bill 1312.
Heidi takes a look at the controversy and opposition around HB1312, Colorado’s latest trans rights bill.
Colorado Republican legislators and pastors gathered at the Capitol yesterday to oppose House Bill 25-1312, the Kelly Loving Act, named after one of the victims of the 2022 Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs. The bill would require courts to consider deadnaming, misgendering, or threatening to publish material related to an individual’s gender-affirming health-care services as types of coercive control when making custody decisions; protect transgender patients and their parents from out-of-state actions; allow students to choose between sex-based dress code options; and define deadnaming and misgendering as discriminatory acts in the “Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act.”
A state representative threatened to sue the Colorado Times Recorder last week, in a screed laced with misspellings, delusions of grandeur, and an apparent misunderstanding of the very thing she hopes to sue us for. In other words, exactly the kind of fare we have come to expect from Douglas County’s Brandi Bradley.
The bill has been assigned to the House Health & Human Services Committee for review.
As part of our weekly roundup of articles about political extremism in Colorado, the Colorado Times Recorder is highlighting Jason Salzman’s analysis of evidence showing that GOP congressional candidate Gabe Evans was anti-LGBTQ+ throughout his life. He also reported on a series of misleading ads put out by the Denver Gazette. We are also highlighting Craig Mason’s Letter to the Editor analyzing state Rep. Brandi Bradley’s presidency of an anti-government group and reporting from Colorado Newsline’s Quinton Young on how a counterterrorism exhibit in Denver downplays the events of January 6th.
"Moms for Liberty and its nationwide chapters combat what they consider the 'woke indoctrination' of children by advocating for book bans in school libraries and endorsing candidates for public office that align with the group's views."
Here’s the first of a new regular feature. A weekly list of the top extremism stories from the Colorado Times Recorder and beyond. All of this week’s articles are from CTR, but in the future, we’ll include the work of other news outlets too.
