Here's how I define "chutzpah," #copolitics The phony "libertarian" who has been actively undermining the right to hunt in Colorado, by stacking our parks and wildlife board with animal rights activists, and who has led an irrational and self-destructive crusade against fossil fuels in Colorado, including natural gas, is over on Facebook scolding people who might want to support two ballot measures that guarantee the right to hunt and use natural gas in Colorado. @GovofCO also has the chutzpah to tout this as "the free state of Colorado," while actively working to deny residents the freedom to hunt and the freedom to use fossil fuels -- which is what forced reasonable people to put these measures before voters. Does it look like a "free state" to you, Jared, when residents are forced to go to the ballot to secure rights that are taken for granted in almost every other state in the country? Eight long years of Jared Polis made these ballot measures necessary. Eight long years of one-party-rule by the gaggle of radicals in the Colorado Statehouse made these measures necessary. Now the people who undermined our rights to hunt and use reliable energy are warning of dire consequences if we take a stand against the madness that has gripped this state throughout their reign of error? Now THAT'S what I call chutzpah. Strike a blow against Jared's insufferable hypocrisy, and secure your besieged rights to hunt and use fossil fuels, by voting "Yes" on ballot Measures 82 and 83! #copolitics #coleg

Sportsmen’s groups just sued Colorado's Parks & Wildlife board over the commission’s sudden, unjustified, radical two-per-day bag limit on furbearers: archive.li/AkRYc. The lawsuit was necessary, under the circumstances. But I wouldn't expect it to change the rogue board's radical behavior. That's because the animal rights activists who hijacked the board, at the Governor's behest, just don't give a damn about legalities, process, or procedural norms. They obviously intend to wage their personal little war on hunters come hell or high water, and there's little anybody can do about it -- unless the @GovofCO who appointed them demands that they resign en masse. The process that led to the trapping limits was a total sham. CPW staff recommended a 15-animal daily limit based on their analysis that harvests were conservative, sustainable, and consistent with the science. When commissioners demanded tighter numbers, staff returned with species-specific options of four or eight. Those were the only alternatives the public was noticed on and allowed to comment about. The commission had talked about bag limits for months and spent more than four hours on them at the July meeting, with public comment restricted to the agenda items. Then, after public comment ended, newly appointed Commissioner Rebecca Niemiec, who is still unconfirmed by the Senate, dropped a rigged survey of 534 Coloradans she authored and published the day before. It was not peer-reviewed. She later admitted the sample was smaller than she wanted and skewed younger, more female, and more Democrat before any weighting. Respondents were paid online. Staff never saw it in advance. But this CSU social scientist's slanted little push poll then became a pretext for ramming the bag limit through, based on the ridiculous claim that it's "what the public wanted." She moved for a two-bag limit -- a totally arbitrary number -- claiming it was needed for “social acceptance” so people would “feel better” about the commission’s decisions. And six other Polis appointees voted yes. It was a classic bait-and-switch: the public was told one thing, then handed something far more extreme with zero chance to respond. A number of the people engineering this are still just appointees. They have not been confirmed by the state Senate. Those hearings won’t happen until early next year when the legislature returns. Until then they can vote and rewrite the rules at will. The people Jared Polis has appointed to the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission (with a loving shove from his animal-activist husband) are a wrecking crew, plain and simple. Their mission is obvious: derail hunting and trapping by any means available. Process games, last-minute motions, junk surveys, and “social acceptance” slogans that override biology and the North American model are the tools. They almost certainly do not care if the Senate rejects them next year. By then the damage will be done. The rules will be on the books, the precedent set, and unwinding the harm will be slow, expensive, and incomplete. They know that. They simply do not care. That is the most alarming part of the entire episode. This is exactly why voters need to pass Amendment 83 this fall. It would put a right to hunt and fish in the Colorado Constitution and establish those activities as the preferred means of managing wildlife. Those rights are under full-scale attack in Colorado thanks to Polis, his hubby, and the allies they placed on the commission. We can't just leave this matter to lawyers and judges. Voters must send an unmistakable signal that they support hunting and will not tolerate its dismantling from the inside. #copolitics #coleg #hunting @MeatEaterTV

Well looky here, #copolitics. Here's another rich, privileged, professional politician who pretends to care about your high energy bill, even though every single plank in his party's energy platform is designed to destabilize a formerly reliable grid and drive up the costs of domestic energy. Which party supports costly green energy mandates? Which party pushes Soviet-style renewable energy portfolio standards? Which party supports the premature closure of reliable coal and gas plants? Which party's "no nukes" hysteria crippled the nuclear energy industry in America? Which party supports drilling restrictions on federal land, with the goal of creating energy scarcity in a nation of energy plenty? Which party has derailed pipeline projects like Keystone XL? Which party pushes phony endangered species listings aimed at further restricting domestic drilling? Which party has pushed carbon tax proposals that would skyrocket the cost of energy by treating every conventional energy user as a climate outlaw? Yeah, John. I'm talking about YOUR party, which ISN'T the party of affordable, reliable homegrown energy. If you really want to get on the right side of energy issues, and energy consumers, switch parties. Otherwise, just stop with all the dishonest and hypocritical posturing. No thinking person in Colorado buys it, or believes that YOUR party is on their side. #copolitics #coleg @ENERGY

Has #Colorado totally lost its mind? Any non-Coloradan reading through our ballot questions would justifiably wonder. Read the ballot as a sort of Rorschach test, which provides clues to Colorado's mental state, and a troubling picture emerges. In what kind of state, after all, must voters go to the polls to secure their God-given right to hunt and fish? Isn't that just a given if you're born an American? No sane state would be waging the war on hunting that Colorado is, with a rogue and radical Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission taking the lead. That's a bright red flag signaling that something is deeply wrong in Colorado. In what kind of state must voters go to the polls to assert their right to use natural gas to heat/cool their homes or businesses? Any normal state would leave energy users free to make that choice, right? We have a @GovofCO who touts this as "the free state of Colorado." But how free can it be if residents are forced to put hunting rights on the ballot, and aren't free to choose natural gas as an energy source? Most states routinely notify federal law enforcers when foreign criminals with deportation orders and criminal records land in their jails. Not Colorado -- which is why one ballot question would compel state officials to respect, and comply with, federal immigration law. In what kind of state must voters intervene to block biological males from taking over female sports? States that are led by leaders with common sense don't need voter intervention to respect the rights of female athletes to compete against other female athletes. And in what kind of state must voters intervene to halt the mutilation of its sexually confused minors? These last two ballot questions are another clear sign that Colorado has lost its mind. Anyone looking over these ballot questions will understandably ask what the hell has gone wrong in the Centennial State -- and what kind of leaders are running the asylum? They'll see a state in which one party rule by radicals has left reasonable people with no recourse but the ballot, to try balancing the sheer craziness with a little common sense. I urge non-Coloradans to study Colorado's ballot before deciding to move here, or buy a vacation home here. What they'll see, as reflected in the ballot items, is a state where regular people have to go to the ballot to secure rights and freedoms that are taken for granted in normal states. Look at our state ballot as a Rorschach test and what you'll find is a state that hasn't just lost its way -- but has lost its mind. #copolitics #coleg @GovofCO

Read it and weep, #copolitics. But even more importantly, read it and RESPOND. I'm talking of course about a House Judiciary Committee interim report -- "Colorado: The Dangerous Consequences of Sanctuary Policies" -- documenting how Denver and Boulder systematically ignored ICE detainers for people charged with or previously arrested for serious crimes. Denver and Boulder have ignored ICE detainers for foreigners charged with or convicted of serious crimes, including sexual assault on a child, felony assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated assault, child abuse, and domestic violence. In 2026 alone, Denver’s sheriff’s office released individuals facing charges from attempted murder to strangulation instead of transferring them to federal custody. Boulder did the same for people with records of child abuse, bribery, and more. At least 20 named individuals whose detainers were declined this year included a Venezuelan national arrested for sexual assault on a child in a position of trust, a Mexican national with a record that includes strangulation, assault, and kidnapping, and others facing charges ranging from felony assault with a deadly weapon to attempted murder. One suspected Tren de Aragua member was released to the streets after Denver gave ICE only one to two hours’ notice. In Boulder, the sheriff’s office ignored detainers for individuals with histories of aggravated assault, child abuse, domestic violence, and bribery. One named case involved a man arrested for sexually assaulting a minor multiple times. These aren’t abstract policy debates. They’re decisions that put repeat offenders back on the streets while local prosecutors weigh immigration status to help foreign nationals avoid deportation. Local prosecutors in both jurisdictions have policies that explicitly consider immigration status when deciding charges and pleas -- so foreign nationals can avoid deportation consequences that American citizens face. Here's some of the scant coverage this damning report has received in Colorado: archive.li/blAbL. Mayor Mike Johnston’s response? Denver is both “safe” and “welcoming,” crime rates “plummeted,” and the real problem is the federal government “demonizing” immigrants. Boulder DA Michael Dougherty called the report a “political stunt” and “political theatre.” Tell that to the family of Carissa Aspnes, permanently disabled in 2025 when an unlicensed Venezuelan national who had entered illegally ran a stop sign and slammed her into a concrete barrier. Yes, read it and weep, Colorado. But we will have to do more than just weep if we're going to roll back the sanctuary policies that put the claimed rights of foreign nationals above the safety of residents. We will have to change the leaders who put these policies into place. Everyone who has followed the crimes, cases and stories knows this has been a problem. Changing the leaders who created and defended these policies is the only way it stops. #copolitics #coleg @GovofCO @MikeJohnstonCO