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The return of Colorado's legislature to the Capitol this week brought lofty talk from legislative leaders about the need for civility. It also came with a harsh reality: the acrimony and vitriol that marred last year's proceedings have done anything but fade away.
State lawmakers returned to the Colorado Capitol with past tensions and acrimony hanging over the session, as Speaker Julie McCluskie and Senate President Steve Fenberg tried to set the tone.
The kickoff of the 2024 lawmaking session Wednesday at the Colorado Capitol was largely marked by the formalities and first-day cliches that come year after year with one deviation: pleas for civility. In the House and Senate...
Highlighting ongoing concerns about rancor and disrespectful behavior at the state Capitol, top Colorado lawmakers opened the 2024 legislative session Wednesday focusing as much on civility as on their policy
House Speaker McCluskie recently reprimanded state Rep. Elisabeth Epps in a letter for her “significantly disruptive…disrespectful behaviors” during the Colorado General Assembly 2023 special session.