Here's what Colorado's Democratic-controlled legislature did in 2019

It’s hard to call the recently wrapped 2019 legislative session anything less than a steadily completed checklist of Democratic priorities.

Gun control legislation, oil and gas regulations, free full-day kindergarten, a slew of health care bills and much, much more wound their way through the first Democratic-controlled General Assembly since 2013 and to the Democratic governor’s office.

“They managed to accomplish some of what they hoped to, didn't manage to accomplish some of what they did hope to,” Colorado State University political science professor Robert Duffy said. He runs the university’s legislative intern program and has watched many of the proceeds first-hand. "Overall, I think it's been a mixed bag. There’s been some big-ticket items that got through, a couple things that slipped through the cracks.”

But, he noted, for the people on the left who wish more was done, there’s always next year to clean up and pursue goals that didn’t quite make it, like repeal of the death penalty.

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