Green: Report card for Colorado’s collapse under one-party rule—straight F’s across the board
By Stephen Green | PJ Media
Colorado's economic report card is in, and my beloved home state — formerly a solid A and B student — just flunked every subject.
Once upon a time, Colorado was a devilishly weird purple state — home to moderate-to-conservative Republicans like Ben Nighthorse Campbell and Tom Tancredo, idiosyncratic Democrats like Gary Hart and Richard Lamm, and (outside the Denver-Boulder Axis) a healthy libertarian streak.
It was such a swirl that one of those famous Republicans, Campbell, was originally a Democrat.
That all began to change around 2008 when my purple state went deep blue for Barack Obama. By 2018, the hope'n'change was locked in. The last Republican to win statewide office was in 2016, when Heidi Ganahl was elected to the University of Colora...