Pueblo Democrats elected Nick Hinrichsen on Saturday to succeed state Sen. Leroy Garcia, who bailed as a leader in the state legislature just weeks into the session to take a job with the Biden administration.
Hinrichsen wasted no time in thanking his union backers by pledging to help organized labor get buckets of dues by giving collective bargaining rights to all state employees.
The good ole boys including incoming Senate President Steve Fenberg of Boulder backed Hinrichsen, who knocked out former state Sen. Angela Giron in the first round.
Giron was backed by state Sen. Julie Gonzales of Denver, the party caucus chair.
Also running were Brandon Martin and Jason Munoz.
Hinrichsen is married to former state Rep. Bri Buentello.
PeakNation™ will recall Buentello accused the Colorado media and Democrat consultants of being sexist.
Buentello thought a man got more ink than Democrat state Sen. Kerry Donovan after they both announced nearly two years in advance their campaigns against U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert.
Honestly, I wasn’t convinced Smith wasn’t a bot for the first 3 days of his candidacy, but hell if all those insufferable DC consultants, celebrities, and newspapers didn’t just IMMEDIATELY start boosting him because #patriarchy. My God, we still have so far to go. #copolitics
— Bri Buentello (@Bri4CO) February 15, 2021
Gregg Smith of Westcliffe dropped out of the race in March, Donovan dropped out in November after congressional redistricting relocated her from Boebert’s District.
Buentello is now the government affairs director for Stand for Children in Colorado.
The job of a government affairs director is to manage the relationship between government and an organization to the benefit of said organization — also known as lobbying.
However, Buentello told Colorado Politics someone else in her organization handles her job lobbying so there shouldn’t be a conflict of interest with her husband’s new job, we noted, without a hint of sexism.