Colorado Republican Party Chair Brita Horn Plans April Exit After Year Of Party Infighting

By Ernest Luning | Colorado Politics

Colorado Republican Party Chair Brita Horn said Thursday that she will resign her position next month following the GOP’s state assembly, citing what she described as an “enduring divide” within the party “marked by vitriol and hostility.”

Horn’s announcement came just over a week after the Republicans’ state central committee voted overwhelmingly to approve a measure expressing “no-confidence” in her leadership.

An earlier central committee meeting organized by Horn’s critics approved an identical “no-confidence” resolution and demanded her resignation. The meeting, which Horn dismissed as “illegal” and lacking authority, also sought to restrict her spending authority and require that the party end litigation involving fellow Republicans.

Horn’s detractors told Colorado Politics last week that they had begun circulating a petition to recall her from office.

She’s the third state GOP officer to resign in the past year, following the departures of two of her vice chairs, last month and last summer, respectively, with both of the party’s former No. 2 officers saying they were unable to work with Horn.

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