State Rep. Elisabeth Epps skipped the first 45 days of this year’s legislative session without explaining why except that she had an “extended health condition” and planned to watch floor sessions from home indefinitely.
She was allowed to cast votes, but could not participate in floor debate or add amendments to any bills that she or her constituents might find objectionable.
Completely missing the point of her job description to represent her Denver district voters at the state Capitol during the legislature’s 120-day session, Epps essentially abdicated her throne without telling voters.
What ails her? Allergies, perhaps, to the new office to which she was reassigned after pissing off leadership with her bullshit antics.
PeakNation™ will recall we reported Epps missing in action last month as her Democrat colleagues noticeably began donating to the socialist Democrat’s reelection opponents.
There’s been plenty of buzz about her whereabouts and motives for failing to do the job to which she was elected. Especially since she’s also actively seeking reelection while not doing her job.
There was the lawsuit Epps filed against her own leadership ratting them out for private texts about legislative matters after one of her bills failed.
Then there was the time Epps took to the spectator gallery during the special session a few months ago that was supposed to stop the property tax spike. It did not.
Epps heckled lawmakers on the House floor below and joined in with Hamas supporters to cause a scene and disrupt the session.
Epps and other anti-Israel protestors of this ilk suffer from some delusion that temper tantrums have the supernatural power to bring about peace in the Mideast. It did not.
Then, Epps lost a key committee assignment and her plush Capitol office space and was reassigned to lesser digs.
Epps has not represented her constituents for nearly half the session, and yet she is running for reelection.
Her absences prompted The Colorado Sun to request documents, emails and texts between Epps and Democrat leaders through the state’s open records law to shed some light on her disappearance from duty.
Her first day of in-person House floor attendance came a day after The Sun asked her about her absence. She refused to answer.
The documents reveal that after Epps was removed from the Judiciary Committee by House Speaker Julie McCluskie, Epps accused her of racism.
The Sun determined that since the 2024 session began on Jan. 10, Epps showed up at only four House State, Civic, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee hearings — her only remaining committee assignment.
She was at the Capitol this week, and on Feb. 22.
The representative was at the Capitol on Feb. 22 after participating in that morning’s floor session remotely. A Sun reporter approached her near the elevators on the third floor and asked her several times how not appearing in person on the floor for debate may affect her ability to represent her constituents in Denver’s House District 6.
Epps didn’t respond, instead staring silently at the reporter before getting in an elevator.
Epps showed up this week in a failed attempt to save her anti-Israel bill from certain annihilation by fellow Democrats in the House Finance Committee.
Epps was trying to roll back a 2016 Colorado law blocking PERA from investing in companies that participate in the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) program that targeted Israel.
Only one Democrat, Rep. Lorena Garcia of Adams County, voted for Epps bill.
We expect Epps will come up with some lame excuse for neglecting to represent that district’s voters or lift a finger to legislate solutions on their behalf to address the housing crisis, inflated gas, and grocery costs, increasing crime, and homelessness, the environment, or address the financial burden of Biden’s open border policies.
She’ll probably claim she’s boycotting the state legislature because the Democrats who control the House and Senate are a bunch of racists.