Thread by @KyleClark

The @cologop purge continues. Email blasts, formal reprimands, now a warning from Chair @RepDaveWilliams’ right-hand man, @realWestonImer, a 19-yr-old fmr intern for Rep Boebert. “KARMA IS A BITCH!” Imer wrote. “Every single liar in this party will get theirs, don’t even worry.”

Imer describes himself as the Colorado GOP’s project manager. The party is so cash-poor it does not have any paid employees.

Yesterday, @RogerHudsonCO, the deputy chief of staff for the Colorado House GOP, said the party was bankrupt and losing its office space. The party denied that and accused Hudson of “supporting the mitigation and chemical castration of kids.”

As the Colorado GOP struggles to raise money, it plans to pay John Eastman, architect of the Trump plan to overturn the 2020 election, to pursue a legal challenge to bar unaffiliated voters from
the GOP primary. But Eastman may lose his law license first. nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…

There’s a separate push by a far right faction to opt the Colorado GOP out of the primary process and have its candidates selected by a relatively small number of party insiders. coloradosun.com/2023/07/10/col…

Chair Dave Williams has enlisted the Colorado Libertarian Party to give weight to his ideological purity tests for candidates. A pact with the Libertarians says they won’t run a candidate in races where the GOP nominates a sufficiently “pro-Liberty” candidate.

https://twitter.com/kyleclark/status/1668665664301842433

Williams has weaponized the state Republican party against one Republican in particular: @RepDLamborn, who defeated Williams in a 2022 primary after a judge ruled Williams could not appear on the ballot as Dave “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams.

https://twitter.com/spencersoicher/status/1669762742105018369

Today, the Colorado Log Cabin Republicans said a @cologop email blast entitled “Pride is evil” showing the words PRIDE MONTH morphing into DEMON was “narrow minded and pandered to the far right.”
logcabincolorado.org/statement_on_p…

The state GOP followed up the PRIDE MONTH -> DEMON email with a claim that the chairman of the Colorado Democratic Party is a groomer.

https://twitter.com/kyleclark/status/1674521593194872833

The Colorado GOP couldn’t find traction in the center or the far right in 2022. @ODeaForColorado painted himself as a centrist and lost the US Senate race by 13%. @heidiganahl ran on culture war grievance and fantasy (ie furries taking over schools) and lost by almost 20%.

Remember, GOP chair Dave Williams won his race when Colorado’s best known election denier, Tina Peters, dropped out and endorsed him. He offered her a job with the party handling election integrity.

https://twitter.com/kyleclark/status/1641626876664791041

Dick Wadhams, the former state GOP chair who ran the campaign of Colorado’s only Republican governor in the last 50 years, is warning against the direction of the party. The @cologop called Wadhams “a bitter old man.” gazette.com/opinion/column…

Bottom line: Colorado Republicans, at their low point electorally since pre-WWII, have leaned hard into Trump-style politics in a purple-trending-blue state that went for Clinton +5 in 2016 and Biden +13 in 2020.

It hasn’t been 24 hours and the @cologop’s circular firing squad has another Republican in its sights: @SenKirkmeyer, who narrowly lost the CO-8 House race in 2022. Kirkmeyer lost the Biden +4.7 district by 1.7.