New Fever Swamp Review! Heidi discusses Colorado Rep. Scott Bottoms’ (R-CO Springs) recent bill to ban the production of insects for human consumption in Colorado. They discuss the conspiracies behind eating bugs, Pat Robertson’s seminal work, “New World Order,” and effective altruism.
A lot has happened in the past seven days. Trump’s promised “Operation Aurora” kicked off in Colorado as ICE and other federal agencies carried out raids at apartment buildings in the Denver Metro area. According to The Colorado Sun’s Jennifer Brown, the agency has yet to reveal how many people were detained and if they had connections to the gang ICE was targeting, but residents and activists described masked agents using smoke grenades and breaking in doors.
A Colorado representative introduced a bill last Wednesday that would make bringing a minor from another state to Colorado for abortion or gender-affirming care a crime.
The bill has been assigned to the House Health & Human Services Committee for review.
Controversial Christian conservative musician and activist Sean Feucht brought his “Kingdom to the Capitol” tour to Denver this weekend, performing on the steps of the Colorado Capitol with guest appearances from U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Colorado Rep. Scott Bottoms (R-Colorado Springs).
In media appearances and at townhall events, Colorado Republicans are reflecting on the recent legislative session which saw bills addressing housing, property taxes, and gun control.
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.
Rep. Scott Bottoms, who is also a pastor at the Church at Briargate in Colorado Springs, has become notorious for making frequent inflammatory statements, including on abortion and LGBTQ people.
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).
This week, Democrat-controlled Colorado House committees voted down two proposed anti-abortion bills from state Rep. Scott Bottoms (R-Colorado Springs). Bottoms’ “Personhood of Living Unborn Human Child” bill was killed by the State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Committee, and his “Require Information about Abortion Pill Reversal” bill met the same fate in the Health and Human Services Committee.
