Flipping the Colorado Senate could mean great things for Colorado voters
Colorado Democrats for years have been passing commonsense progressive legislation through the state’s House chamber, only to be thwarted by GOP obstruction in the Senate.
Now, with a definite prospect of flipping the state Senate in November, there’s a chance those key pieces of legislation, including a family leave bill and crucial gun safety legislation, could finally be freed out of committee and sent to the desk of a Democratic governor.
The unfolding Colorado Senate race is among the most closely watched state legislative contests in the country. It finds Republicans on the defensive in a Mountain West state where voters are moving to the left, and a state where Trump is not a popular figure. (Sensing vulnerability, the billionaire Koch brothers are trying to bail out local Republican candidates with an infusion of cash.)
Democrats are likely to retain control of the Colorado House in November, and stand a good chance of maintaining the governorship. If they’re successful flipping the Senate, it would give the party a trifecta.
“This is a potentially very big moment — not necessarily a permanent one, but one that for the next few years could dramatically change the landscape in terms of what state government can do,” Colorado State University political professor Robert Duffy recently told the Denver Post.
Five key races, all featuring Democratic women, will likely determine control of the General Assembly’s upper chamber, where the GOP currently enjoys just a one-seat margin.
Among those closely watched candidates is Faith Winter, who has been sponsoring state-funded family leave legislation for several previous sessions, where it passes the Democratic House and then gets shelved in the GOP Senate.
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all the way down the ticket.
