The Republican Party in Colorado is having a crisis of confidence, facing increasing calls from within for Chairman Dave Williams to step down following a raucous GOP assembly last weekend and, in …
Former State Rep. Dave Williams, now chairman of the Colorado Republican Party, claps as Speaker of the House Alec Garnett delivers a speech to the House of Representatives at the Colorado State Capitol Building on Wednesday, January 12, 2022. The Republican Party in Colorado is having a crisis of confidence, facing increasing calls from within for Chairman Dave Williams to step down following a raucous GOP assembly last weekend and, in the days that followed, bitter infighting in full view.
“You shouldn’t be trying to intimidate people,” she said. “We’re supposed to be trying to include people in our party, not trying to push them out.” The intraparty criticism of Williams comes at a time when the Republican Party has for years lagged in state elections up and down the ballot, resulting in today’s Democratic dominance in Colorado. Democrats hold the governor’s office and wide majorities in the state legislature while occupying most seats in the state’s congressional delegation.
Then-state Rep. Dave Williams, left, talks with Rep. Stephanie Luck in the Colorado House Chamber in Denver on Tuesday, May 10, 2022. For Kelly Maher, a longtime Colorado Republican strategist, the objections go beyond Williams’ conduct at the Pueblo assembly last weekend, where some in the party also took issue with policy and platform votes that went Williams’ way.
“When we are attacking our own conservatives, the goal of growing the party is really hard to achieve,” she said.“It’s supposed to be a neutral body that opens up election pathways for Republicans,” she said of the state party. “Anytime the party picks and chooses candidates in a race, it gives voters the appearance of backroom deals.”
From left to right, state Sens. Bob Gardner, Paul Lundeen, Larry Liston and Barbara Kirkmeyer chat with each other after voting on a bill in the Senate chambers during a special session at the Colorado State Capitol on Nov. 19, 2023, in Denver. Republicans hold 12 of the chamber’s 35 seats. Williams has also run into criticism from fellow Republicans for his desire to close GOP primaries to all but affiliated party voters, a stance Wadhams calls “dumbfounding.
When he first ran for office two years ago, Bottoms said, he was told to tone down his anti-abortion beliefs. He praised Williams for embracing his position on the issue from the party chair position.
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