By Ernest Luning | Colorado Politics
Feuding Colorado Republicans were back in court this week as the county party officers who have been trying to oust state GOP Chairman Dave Williams asked a judge to reverse an earlier order that prohibited Williams’ critics from convening a meeting to vote on the question.
El Paso County Republican Vice Chairman Todd Watkins and Jefferson County Republican Chairwoman Nancy Pallozzi filed a motion late Tuesday in Arapahoe County District Court asking Judge Thomas W. Henderson to reconsider the temporary restraining order he issued Friday that blocked a meeting of the party’s state central committee that Watkins had earlier called for the following day.
In their motion, Watkins and Pallozzi said that the judge granted the order based on “a fundamental misunderstanding of the facts and law,” including what the two allege are inaccurate descriptions of party procedures contained in an earlier filing by Williams and the state GOP.