Colorado GOP rejects interparty fighting, elects new team to challenge Democrats

Mar 31, 2025

The Colorado Republican Party turned a corner on Saturday to heal thyself by electing Brita Horn as their new chairman for the next two years.

Convention delegates chose an energetic leader to get right-minded folks elected across the state to keep taxes and spending low while resisting some of the outlandish ideals of our far-out left neighbors.

The 62-year-old fire chief and former treasurer of Routt County pledged to douse the flames that have fanned party infighting for years and heal those wounds.

Horn promised to lead Republicans out of the desert and into the Promised Land of the two-party government system of checks and balances.

From the Denver Gazette:

“We have so much division, we have so much distraction. We have all these things going on, debating about the past,” Horn said. “Guess what the Democrats are doing right now? They’re winning elections.”

 

Added Horn: “We can’t do that anymore. We have to stop the infighting and start fighting for the party.”

Gone is the circular firing squad led by former chairman Dave Williams, which is all we’ve got to say about that.

Meanwhile, the media dinosaurs are still having a field day kicking around his bones while they sharpen their knives to start tearing down Horn. They’re already quoting the Democrat chair slandering her as corrupt.

Horn will never get fair treatment from the media hyenas who laughingly still insist their reporting is fair and non-biased, as they label all Republicans as Nazis.

We wish the new leadership team the best of luck restoring our freedoms and liberty, as they shake off the Democrat’s desperate, doomsday rhetoric and the building blocks of their Nanny Government that wants to control our lives from cradle to grave.

Reading the tea leaves, Williams declined to run for reelection. The elected officers who served alongside him were defeated — vice chair Hope Scheppelman and secretary Anna Ferguson.

The new vice chair is Lee Phelan Sr., who also serves as GOP chairman for Las Animas County, and Russ Andrews is the new secretary.

It was a clean sweep of the Williams’ short-lived dynasty.

From the Rocky Mountain Voice:

Phelan, who rose through the ranks by rebuilding a struggling county party, said the state GOP’s failures aren’t due to lack of passion, but poor structure. “The Colorado GOP is not winning statewide elections. It’s not because we lack good people. The problem is structural.”

Specific shortcomings holding the GOP back were listed. “We lack coordination. We lack training. We lack reliable data. And too often, we just lack leadership that listens.”

Horn defeated six other candidates running for chair including Weld County Commissioner Lori Saine; former state Rep. Richard Holtorf of Akron; Darcy Schoening, Williams stalwart Jeremy Goodall, and party activists Ryan Everett, and Mark Morris.

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