CO-04 (Special Election)
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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%↓
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
90%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
90%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
(R) Ron Hanks
40%
30%
20%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
30%↑
15%↑
10%↓
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Dave Williams
(R) Jeff Crank
50%↓
50%↑
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
90%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) Brittany Pettersen
85%↑
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Janak Joshi
60%↑
35%↓
30%↑
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
February 11, 2013 10:31 AM UTC
9 Comments
My good fortune to get to be the first to say………..
Great job Democrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Very courageous.
Now finish it in the House.
I'm proud to be a Democrat in the State of Colorado. My vote helped secure a Majority.
Congratulations to everyone that did the same.
Awesome! In your face, bigots! (And yes, every single person who opposed this, for ANY reason, is a hateful bigot. No exceptions.)
Concur, Ari.
Are people who have opposed civil unions because they want full marriage equality hateful bigots?
Are people who have opposed civil unions because they want full marriage equality hateful bigots?
No, Serenity, these people aren't bigots. They have, however, fallen into the logical trap in which the best is the enemy of the good. This is a step toward equality. The final step will require amending the Colorado Constitution to eliminate the ban on same sex marriage or a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that marriage inequality violates the equal protection cause of the first amendment.
How about simply doing away with the concept of "marriage" under Colorado law? Marriage is a religious tenet which never should have been enshrined in law. How about eliminating 'marriage" under Colorado law and just defining the rights of two people who contract for a "civil union" which provides them rights under the law but does not have any religious conotation whatsoever?
PS. Congratulations to all for this hard fought victory. Special congratulations to Ellen Roberts as the only member of the Republican caucus with any balls at all.
I completely agree Voyageur. I'm thrilled about this, though many years ago I did entertain the thought that civil unions maybe were not worth supporting because they didn't provide full equality. I never ended up being opposed to them.
Anyway, I was mostly just being a contrarian and pointing out the exception to Aristotles statement that "every single person who opposed this, for ANY reason, is a hateful bigot. No exceptions."
You were, of course, quite correct to do so. As Mark Twain once said:
No generalization is worth a damn. Including this one.​