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January 26, 2016 10:32 AM UTC

BREAKING: Controversy Rocks GOP HD-25 Vacancy

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  • by: Colorado Pols

In the wake of Tim Leonard’s victory in the GOP Colorado House District 25 vacancy committee selection this past weekend, dissidents led by ubiquitous conservative watchdog Marilyn Marks are challenging the process by which the members of the vacancy committee were organized. A Facebook post from Florence Urbish Sebern, a Republican activist in Denver, appears to allege that the vacancy committee was altered just before the vote:

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This message was evidently in response to former Sen. Ted Harvey’s defense of the process:

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Obviously, Harvey’s admission that the committee list that was filed with the Colorado Secretary of State “was not correct” raises big and very appropriate red flags–even is he claims it is “all good.” We have to note that Republican vacancy committee hearings are routinely fraught with controversy, but this could be something more than the usual tit-for-tat. What we’ve heard suggests that they can’t stop Rep. Tim Leonard from taking office, but a lawsuit could cause much intraparty friction in the coming weeks and months.

All of which calls into question the decision of Jon Keyser to resign this seat. In addition to resulting in a coup for the growing power base of Keyser’s U.S. Senate primary opponent Tim Neville, Keyser’s vacancy could be reopening wounds within the Colorado GOP that among other things won’t help his aspirations for higher office.

Stay tuned, we’ll update as the story develops.

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10 thoughts on “BREAKING: Controversy Rocks GOP HD-25 Vacancy

        1. I knew Mrs. Sebern through her husband.  She had an abortion as a young woman and is now totally and obsessively committed to making sure other women don't get to have a choice like she did.  She went to the 2012 Republican convention and is about as hard core and inflexible a Republican as you will ever find.  Her comments in this regard are linked to the process and she is making a good point about the fairness and openness of the process which is the Republican thing to do whenever a ruling goes against you.

  1. Does anyone know what happened at the meeting?  Were there other candidates?  What was the vote?  Did the extra members belong there?  If they came to the meeting notice is deemed waived.  What would the vote have been without the extra members.  This all seems so secret.    Why doesn't the committee just open up and tell everyone exactly what  happened and name names.  This is easily solved if there was nothing wrong.  Why is it that people get all defensive?  Just tell the truth.  If there was something wrong, then just hold another vote and correct.  I doubt the outcome will change.

  2. Perhaps the speaker should appoint a select committee to investigate what happened at the HD 25 vacancy committee meeting before the House accepts the appointment of Tim Leonard. Florence and Marilyn could be the ace investigators.

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