Republicans Spend Millions to Stop Democrats From Securing Colorado Supermajority

By Taylor Dolven | The Colorado Sun

Republicans are spending more than $1.6 million to defend a state Senate district in Douglas County they have held comfortably for the last 15 years in what appears to be a desperate attempt to prevent a Democratic supermajority at the Colorado Capitol.

Democrats are just three House seats and one Senate seat shy of their first bicameral supermajority, meaning they would control two-thirds of the seats in both chambers of the legislature, which would allow them to override vetoes from the next governor and put constitutional amendments on the ballot without any Republican votes.

But a supermajority may not be on every Democrat’s wish list. 

It would weaken the next governor, likely to be Democratic Attorney General Phil Weiser, and force Democrats in the legislature to reconcile tough questions about policy choices that they’ve been able to avoid over the past eight years by using the threat of a veto from Gov. Jared Polis as cover.

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