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As the Grand Junction Sentinel reports: A Western Slope state lawmaker has requested the Colorado State Patrol provide her with additional protection because of the number of threats sent to her this week by anti-illegal immigration advocates. Rep. Kathleen Curry, D-Gunnison, said after she gaveled down Rep. Doug Bruce, R-Colorado Springs, for calling Mexican immigrants […]

As the Denver Post reports: A 20-minute rant by Rep. Douglas Bruce temporarily derailed a bill Thursday that he said unfairly targeted his late start at the Capitol. Bruce – taking the unusual step of testifying against another lawmaker’s bill – talked long enough to force the panel to put off voting and delay the […]

As the Denver Post reports: Yes, we can all get along. So declared the House today in a resolution calling for civility among members. It was the third year in a row that the House has adopted such a resolution, but this year’s declaration was especially sanguine. Rep. Douglas Bruce, R-Colorado Springs, co-sponsored the resolution. […]

Breaking from the Rocky Mountain News: Rep. Douglas Bruce, R-Colorado Springs, has been booted from the House State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee. “I no longer believe it is in the best interest of the House nor for the active-duty or retired military personnel of Colorado to have Representative Bruce continue to serve on the […]

This, complete with gratuitous East Coast snark about the “rough and tumble” West, was probably inevitable. In the week leading up to his first day on the job, State Representative Douglas Bruce, a Republican, got into a lengthy dispute with the Democratic speaker of the House over the time of his swearing in… On the […]