We’ll say it again: One-party rule ushers in radical politics. Colorado’s Legislature, where Democrats run the show with lopsided majorities in both chambers, is Exhibit A.
They have been passing ever more extreme laws that are driven by blind devotion to narrow dogma rather than even a semblance of the broader public’s interest. Whether it involves business regulation, energy, criminal justice, transportation — the list grows by the year — the ruling party’s policy agenda jumps the rails increasingly often.
As a hedge against an even further lurch to the left, The Gazette editorial board called on Coloradans to vote a Republican slate in the Nov. 5 election in several legislative races that likely were to be close. As it turned out, the Republicans we recommended for the three most hotly contested seats in the state Senate won, preventing Democrats from securing a veto-proof “supermajority” in the upper chamber.
Now, Colorado Politics reports that Democrats in the state House of Representatives, who enjoy a supermajority there, could lose it.