For leftists, there’s not much “higher” than Colorado.
Run by all Democrats now for years, it has used taxpayer resources to sue President Trump dozens … and dozens … of times.
It’s all-Democrat Supreme Court tried to keep President Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot for something he didn’t do.
The state has manufactured claims, and persecuted, Christians in a long list of legal cases in which they desire no more than to be allowed to live their faith, losing each time at the U.S. Supreme Court, and costing those taxpayers millions of dollars.
It’s been under the leadership of multi-millionaire Democrat Gov. Jared Polis, whose claim to fame is his homosexual lifestyle choice, and the extremist Attorney General Phil Weiser, who has been years orchestrating legal claims against Trump.
Now it’s gotten to the point Democrats in the state are being “praised” for their agenda to eliminate … democracy.
That comes from Jon Caldara, chief of the Independent Institute, at Complete Colorado.
He cites the “dishonesty, intimidation and political bullying have become standard operating procedure at the Colorado Capitol,” where Democrats are in the governor’s office and hold the majorities in the House and Senate.
“The message from lawmakers is increasingly simple: Vote however you like — we’ll make sure it turns out the way we like,” he explained, “When voters might say no, they rewrite the question. When elected officials won’t cooperate, they replace them. When citizens organize an initiative, they sabotage it. And when the law becomes inconvenient, they exempt themselves from it.”
Calling them “the kings of Colorado,” he explained Democrat lawmakers exempted themselves from state open meetings laws because “transparency is vital – right up until we want to see what they’re doing.”
“They warn President Donald Trump threatens democracy, then strip authority from democratically elected officials. They removed two-thirds of the elected Regional Transportation District board so their own appointees could take over. Nothing protects democracy quite like replacing the people voters chose,” he explained.
Then there was a planned citizens petition to vote on road funding. Lawmakers saw it coming, so they passed a bill that would give them their way, no matter the voters’ decision.
This year’s “choo-choo” taxes, for rail transportation, are the latest, he said.
“Areas considered friendly to the tax — such as Boulder and Denver — were gerrymandered into the district. Less enthusiastic communities gerrymandered out. Apparently, when you can’t win the vote, you choose the voters. Call it ‘curated democracy,'” he said.
And there’s lawmakers’ perpetual war on the state constitution’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, which limits tax increases.
Lawmakers want voters to give up their control over taxes for “education,” in a plan that has earmarks for 10 years, and then “the money goes, well, we don’t know.”
Voters also must decide on a “graduated income-tax scheme,” and he points out there’s no indexing for inflation, so instead of a 4.4% state income tax, everyone eventually will pay the new 8.4%.
He said the 2026 election sees lawmakers treating voters “less like citizens to be persuaded and more like obstacles to be outmaneuvered.”
