Colorado GOP senator becomes Democrat, cites vote falsehoods

Associated Press ^ | August 22, 2022 | James Anderson

[Olog-hai]

Citing alarm toward the Republican Party’s widespread embrace of 2020 election conspiracies, a moderate GOP Colorado state senator has switched his affiliation to Democrat, enhancing that party’s prospects to retain its majority in the chamber in the November midterms.

Kevin Priola, who represents Adams County in Denver’s suburbs, said in a letter Monday he was horrified by the Jan. 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol and had waited in vain for his party to repudiate it as well as former President Donald Trump, who continues to insist that it was stolen.

“It never came,” Priola said. “To my dismay, brave and honorable Republicans like Mike Pence, Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney and Adam Kinzinger have fought to defend the Constitution and the rule of law only to be met with ridicule and threats.”

“I cannot continue to be part of a political party that is okay with a violent attempt to overturn a free and fair election and continues to peddle claims that the 2020 election was stolen,” Priola said. …

[LittleBillyInfidel]

he was horrified...

"Horrified"! Yeah, we don't need yet another Beta male p*ssy on our side. See ya.

[WinstonSmith1984]

The Progressives in CO have probably the finest voter fraud organization in the nation. They also have no soul.

[RandallFlagg]

brave and honorable Republicans like Mike Pence, Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney and Adam Kinzinger

[noiseman]

This is like being an allegedly patriotic American soldier after 9/11, then suddenly deciding that you’re deserting and joining Al Qaeda because you are “horrified” that we waterboarded a few terrorists. Anyone as weak and erratic as this guy was never on the side of good in the first place.

[cotton1706]

Yeah, until his new buddies, the democrats, steal HIS seat from him, in favor of a REAL democrat.

Then he might care, but probably won’t. Because that’s how these types roll.

[Mass Market]

This Coloradan has a similar story.

bob4colorado.com

Running as a Democrat for CO HD 43
Switched from Republican because he does not like Trump.

Website says he did not like that “...Trump attacked Captain Kahn’s mother... and that the party continued to support Roy Moore.”

“...Democrats now have more faith in the American experiment than today’s Republican Party”.

He said to me that he wants to pay teachers more and raise the cost of gasoline so more people buy electric cars.

[kiryandil]

You don't need a weatherman. To know which way the wind blows.

You might need a Colorado RINO. To know which way the "elections" are being rigged by Secretary of Soros "Dirty Jena" Griswold...

He's in Adams County in Denver’s suburbs. He knows.

[Deplorable American1776]

Bye moron, don’t let the door hit you in the ASS! Oh, let the door hit you in the ASS since it might knock some sense into you.

[rlmorel]

More like he has been diddling little boys, and the Dems decided this was the time to put the screws to him.

[rlmorel]

He is a Lefty, barely even rising to the level of RINO. From Wikipedia, which no doubt has burnished his credentials:

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Priola is considered a political moderate in his district, and has worked with Democrats in sponsoring or supporting bipartisan bills. He voted in favor of legislation to allow municipalities to require affordable housing which had been prohibited since a ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court in 2000. He was the only Republican in the state senate to vote in favor of legislation to prevent landlords from using or disclosing the citizenship or immigration status of their tenants.

He sponsored legislation to exempt teachers from the Colorado Open Records Act in order to prevent doxing being conducted against teachers. Priola was the only Republican to vote in favor of legislation to prohibit employers from retaliating against their workers for reporting health and safety concerns or violations.

He co-sponsored legislation to repeal the death penalty, and at one point he was the only Republican supporter, stating that he opposes capital punishment due to his Catholic beliefs and how it disproportionately targets black people. He voted in favor of reducing the sentence of felony murder from life in prison without parole to a maximum of forty-eight years.

He and Senator Brittany Pettersen created legislation to allow for supervised injection sites to combat the opioid epidemic. Patrick Neville, the Republican Minority Leader in the state house, threatened to have recall attempts made against Democratic members of the Colorado General Assembly who supported the legislation, but not against Priola. Priola sponsored legislation to prohibit the selling or marketing of flavored products by cigarette, tobacco, or nicotine retailers.

Priola sponsored legislation in 2014 that would prohibit abortions, except in the case of the mother's life, and make it a class three felony. He received an F rating from NARAL Pro-Choice America.

He voted in favor of legislation to allow transgender and nonbinary people to change their names and gender on identifications without surgery or judicial requirements, and voted in favor of legislation to prohibit gay conversion therapy. He cosponsored legislation to make HIV prevention drugs available without the need of a prescription. He has also supported anti-LGBT religious-exemption legislation.

After the 2021 United States Capitol attack, he called for President Trump to be removed from office through either the 25th amendment or impeachment. Priola was the only Republican to vote in favor of a resolution calling for the passage of voting rights legislation at the federal level while fifteen Republican members of the state senate voted in favor of unsuccessful amendments to the resolution thanking the Capitol Hill attackers and to decertify the 2020 presidential election.

On August 22, 2022, Priola announced he was leaving the Republican Party and joining the Democratic Party, citing Republicans' attempts to overturn the 2020 election and climate change denial.

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He is a Leftist, through and through. Not a conservative bone in him anywhere. I would guess he projected as a Republican to get elected, then voted the other way on everything except abortion. But he seems to be all in on the homosexual lobby.

[chopperk]

The Dem party is a perfect place for a yellow jelly backboned guy like Kevin. I’m sure there are a few more Republicans who have Kevin’s convictions; like Lizzy, Kinzinger and Cassidy.....

[Olog-hai]

Nope. Meaning that wasn’t the reason for the switch.

The “moderate” label tags him as a long-time Unipartier.

[Olog-hai]

No need to call Crist “Christ”.

[laplata]

Thanks for that good overview of the RINO. He’s a dud and will be treated as such except when they need his votes.

[LizzieD]

If this moron recently won a Republican primary, he should be sued. Fraud.

[rlmorel]

I view Leftists and Uniparty people as one and the same, but I can concede that while the Uniparty people do it for perks and greed, the Leftists do it for power and greed.

[Irish Eyes]

Thanks for the information.

[Olog-hai]

Ever since I read the fifteenth goal of the communists for the USA (namely “Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States”), I regard both major parties as left wing and see it in the behavior and rhetoric of their politicians. With very few exceptions.

[Republican Wildcat]

That caused him to change his views on everything else, eh?

[Scrambler Bob]

“To my dismay, brave and honorable Republicans like Mike Pence, Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney and Adam Kinzinger have fought
= = =

So why don’t you act like them, stay a GOP, and get brave and honorable?????