Congratulations to all of Colorado’s Republican nominees who rose to the top in Tuesday’s primary election.

Also, our condolences and best wishes to everyone else who fought a hard campaign to represent the party in the November General Election, and best of luck in your future endeavors. 

And now, to recap Tuesday’s key races, we go to the magic cheat sheet:

 

The Republican Party has spoken, and these are the candidates whom they believe can bring an end to Colorado’s one-party progressive rule that has made a real mess of our beloved state.

Now the real work begins for GOP candidates to bring voters back to reality about the state of our state and nation, and the solutions they propose will get us out of this mess.

The Gazette editorial board has their talking points for how one-party, Democrat rule has governed us so far:

Inspired by Colorado Springs Republican Rep. Shane Sandridge, the left chose to decriminalize hard street narcotics. That insane policy tracks with a spike in the rate of fentanyl deaths second only to Alaska’s — where a tiny population base artificially skews the rate.

 

Under one-party leadership, excessive regulations have reduced our state’s potential to produce oil and gas at a time when scarcity of these essential energies undermines state, national and global economies.

 

It is no exaggeration to conclude one-party leadership has taken our state from great to mediocre and on a downward trajectory. People used to move here from New Jersey, New York, San Francisco and other megacities to avoid the exact same problems our new laws and regulations encourage and facilitate.

Tuesday’s wins shows that Colorado voters aren’t blind to the inept governing of the too-far-gone progressive Left.

Republicans and independents couldn’t be fooled by the millions spent by outsider Democrat PACs to manipulate the GOP primary results to their benefit.

Now is the time for all GOP candidates to hold Democrats accountable for their inability to govern responsibly. 

So get back to work.