Evil DC politics infiltrate Colorado Capitol

    When I started in the Legislature 13 years ago, there was integrity and collaboration. You could disagree but still have a discussion and still be civil to each other. You would try to find common ground and actually try to solve problems. Now, not so much.
    We have a governor who bragged about a stakeholder process for the new oil and gas restrictions when, in fact, there was none — no enviros — no industry.
    Integrity meant working with constituents to draft problem-solving language. Drafting any legislation in back rooms and then being dishonest when it is introduced is not the definition of good policy making, let alone integrity.
    The evil seems to be a continued agenda with absolutely no desire to reach across the aisle to form good policy. From the introduction of bills which would create safe places to inject illegal drugs with new needles given by government to giving our presidential votes away to the populated states, this governor and lawmakers are taking Colorado down a path of destruction and socialism.
    A day after the press conference that touted a stakeholder process (which we found out was a lie), a bill was introduced to ultimately shut down oil and gas production in much of the state. Hidden under the disguise of local control, the Oil and Gas Commission would re-evaluate already-issued permits under a new set of standards and allow local governments to create even stricter regulations, even though the voters soundly rejected 112, their anti-energy referendum.
    It also appears that rallies at the Capitol are scheduled in advance of a bill’s introduction, and social media support issued for a hearing date in committees of bills that have not yet been introduced and boom — new bills that meet the agenda and time frame suddenly appear to the rest of the citizens. Again, elected officials showing an unprecedented and orchestrated abuse of power.
    Introduced legislation that would continue Denver’s safe injection sites perpetuates the evil nature of this legislature. For lawmakers to try and provide safe areas and provide tools for drug addicts to shoot up with illegal drugs that we know are bad for them only adds to the destruction of a society.
    With Democrats so upset over the last presidential election, their proposal to cede our electoral college votes to the rest of the country is shortsighted. Our forefathers got it right when they created a system to make sure that heavily populated urban states did not overrun rural areas and govern by mob rule. In an attempt to make sure Colorado never leads and only follows New York and California, the current leaders of our state have done an end run around the Constitution.
    The attempt to make sure sex education and health classes are taught with a specific agenda is a true overreach and is one of the responsibilities of parents. It has never been, nor should it be, a school’s responsibility to teach an agenda that is more appropriately taught at home.

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