Colorado's 2019 legislative session was a doozy, from Democrats' growing pains to a blabbermouth GOP

Colorado’s 2019 legislative session was a doozy, from Democrats’ growing pains to a blabbermouth GOP strategy


Clorado Democrats may control the state Capitol, but the story in the final days of the 2019 legislative session was the Republican stranglehold on their calendar.

That’s mainly because of the Colorado Senate, where the GOP ground work to a halt in the waning weeks of the lawmaking term, forcing Democrats to consider what measures to leave behind to ensure there’s enough time to pass their priority bills.

Things have gotten so precarious in the upper chamber that one state representative referred to the Senate as a “black hole,” while the House Speaker urged her Democratic colleagues not to alter a bill because it would have to go back there.

“I’m afraid to send anything over there,” quipped Rep. Jovan Melton, an Aurora Democrat. “Bills go in and they don’t come back out.”

Read more: https://coloradosun.com/2019/05/03/colorado-legislative-session-2019-what-happened/