How far Colorado has fallen. Wasn’t CO a Red State only about ten years ago?
I read that the place has been infected with people who fled California after they destroyed that state with their Democrat votes and are now destroying Colorado the same way. They are moving eastward like locusts with STDs.
Yes, and there’s a primary culprit for what happened. While the influx of the CA vermin has not helped the cause most of it comes down to Tim Gill, founder of Quark.
This guy(gay) founded Quark (desktop publishing company) and made a mint. He is a Colorado resident. When, years ago, Colorado passed a referendum saying atht the state would not make special rights for homosexuals (which got overturned by a court anyway), Gill went haywire and started dumping money into Colorado politics hand over fist. He also set up an organization for this purpose and roped in other rich lefties.
This made for a sea change in Colorado politics. Small elections which once upon a time involved maybe $50k (state rep races for instance) were now flooded by the lefties to the tune of multiple $100ks. The local GOP just couldn’t find a way to react. The money came flooding in from the left and washed over most of the state leaving far fewer conservative redoubts. Then on top of that we get the migration of CA scum dragging their nest fouling ways with them.
I honesty don’t see any good way for this place to recover. On top of the CA people, we’re getting a flood of illegals which are no doubt voting illegally (encouraged by the Democrats), and will breed like rabbits to win the demographic battle.
It’s really depressing since I moved to CO specifically because it was a nice conservative state. I even bought some land and built a place to retire on there out in the middle of nowhere. That leaves my pinned to a degree which really riles me. Wish I had bought in Wyoming instead.
Yeah, we were. But the Dem machine moved in about 2004 and they have really taken over. We have one of the lowest funded state employee pension plans ( think CA lite) and mandated wind-power and coal plant shut-downs. We have incredible natural gas reserves, but they''ve regulated them to half their previous amount, shut down all the coal mines, and locked up as much of the uranium and tight gas leases as wilderness areas and bat habitat as they can.
Long term outlook of CO is not so great. After all, you can't eat the scenery, nice as it is.