Another session of the Colorado General Assembly has concluded in the standard way: with both a bang and a whimper. Laws were made, tears were shed, and minds were frayed, all as life outside the building continued per usual. The legislative session, which consists of a mad dash through the General Assembly’s constitutional requirements in the constitutionally limited timespan of 120 business days, is over.
The national libertarian youth activism organization, Young Americans for Liberty (YAL), has assembled a network of extreme conservative state legislators as part of its Hazlitt Coalition. Pulling its members from legislatures across the country, the Hazlitt Coalition’s Colorado delegation includes Reps. Scott Bottoms (R-Colorado Springs), Ken DeGraaf (R-Colorado Springs), Brandi Bradley (R-Littleton), and Stephanie Luck (R-Penrose).
Colorado elected officials rejecting the science of biological evolution by this point has become an embarrassment to the state.
As this year’s legislative session kicked off, Colorado’s Republican and Democrat leadership came together in calling for decorum, hoping for colleagues to treat one another “with dignity and respect at all times.” Just one month into 2024, some lawmakers are already finding that harder than others.
Colorado Representatives Scott Bottoms (R-Colorado Springs) and Ken DeGraaf (R-Colorado Springs) held a town hall last night at Church For All Nations where they addressed upcoming legislation in between long digressions on Marxism, abortion, evolution, and transgender people.
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.
As cases of the endemic COVID-19 virus continue to rise, locally and nationally, Colorado Rep. Ken DeGraaf (R-Co Springs) is taking to social media to warn people against the use of vaccinations or masks.
UPDATE: Rep. DeGraaf spoke extensively with the Colorado Times Recorder soon after publication, clarifying his concept of sovereign citizens as opposed to the broadly understood term. This piece has been updated with his comments.
