By Ernest Luning | Colorado Politics
The Colorado Republican Party sued six prominent state Republicans this week alleging the group orchestrated a failed “coup” that attempted to remove state GOP Chairman Dave Williams and his fellow state party officers from their positions last summer, costing the party substantial legal fees and diverting resources from campaigns just weeks before the November election.
In a lawsuit filed on Monday in El Paso County District Court, the state GOP, Williams and the party’s vice chair and secretary ask the court to find that the Republicans who instigated and carried out a plan that claimed to have replaced Williams and the other officers are liable for unspecified damages to be determined at trial.
The 43-page complaint names as defendants former state and county party officials Eli Bremer, Todd Watkins, Nancy Pallozzi, Kevin McCarney, Brita Horn and Kristi Burton Brown, who chaired the state party before Williams’ election to the top spot in March 2023.