Former Colorado Libertarian Chair Crosses Over to Democratic Party

By Ernest Luning | Colorado Politics

Less than a week after ending her second term as chair of the Colorado Libertarian Party, Hannah Goodman changed her voter registration to become a Democrat, the Holyoke resident announced on Monday.

Goodman, whose tenure chairing the state’s largest minor political party featured an agreement with Colorado Republicans to help GOP candidates win close races, told Colorado Politics that she decided to join the Democratic Party in an effort to restore balance to state politics by pushing Democrats to embrace what she called the party’s historic principles.

She’s also returning to her political roots, Goodman said in an interview after changing her affiliation on Friday afternoon.

Describing herself as the kind of “Truman Democrat” represented by generations of her forebears in rural Phillips County on the Eastern Plains, Goodman said she believes the modern Democratic Party has “lost the plot” but is still the party looking out for “the little guy,” including farmers and working-class Americans.

“Their legacy built rural Colorado and united voters,” Goodman said in a social media post announcing her party switch, referring to her Democratic ancestors, who helped found the Colorado Corn Growers Association and served on the county commission, in the legislature and the Colorado Rocky Mountain Farmers Union.

Goodman said she doesn’t agree with Democrats about a lot of things but hopes to help invigorate the party in rural parts of the state, where Republicans dominate, by “kind of mixing up the landscape.”

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