At least one mainstream media outlet is willing to air the dirty laundry of Democrat infighting at the state Capitol where the party in charge can’t seem to get their act together in the final days of the legislative session.
Realizing their failure to deliver on even the most basic of legislative priorates, Democrats have gone feral.
John Frank at Axios Denver reports:
Members are voting to defeat each other’s legislation, filibustering their own party’s bills and instigating conflict with Democratic Gov. Jared Polis.
Why it matters: The typical tension in the legislative process is reaching a fever pitch in the final week, spurring intraparty revolts and jeopardizing key priorities.
The drama hit maximum absurdity when state Rep. Elisabeth Epps spiraled after the defeat of her ban on so-called assault weapons.
She accused the media of racism because they weren’t printing her picture alongside stories of her (checks notes) failure.
Then she led a three-hour filibuster, yet failed to defeat a Democrat bill making indecent exposure towards minors a felony crime claiming it was targeted at the alphabet community.
Other key liberal priorities that failed this session include legalized drug use centers, and rent control, while Democrats also beat back a GOP bill to set real caps on rocketing property taxes.
Democrats are still going back and forth on the state takeover of local zoning, and wolf reintroduction legislation now faces a veto threat from Polis.
PeakNation™ will recall that Frank was a political reporter for the Denver Post until about five years ago when the newspaper imploded with the hostile takeover of Alden Global Capital.
Good on him for breaking from the pack and reporting on the palace intrigue and failures of one-party rule under the dome.
Read it all here.