No one listened.
Most of these CA-to-CO migrants were left-leaning Republicans, libertarians, unaffiliateds, RINOs .... They were just smart enough to realize that something had gone horribly wrong with their formerly utopian "Golden State" mecca, and that they needed to flee it ... especially those raising families.
But just dumb enough to not realize that the political attitudes they brought with them from CA, and the type of people they voted into office out here, were repeating the same destructive cycle in their pristine new home.
Colorado was lost to America in the 90’s. The Laura Kriho case exposed the globalist roots of the CO judiciary, and the outright hubris of a judge publicly announcing he had ‘opened’ sealed court records that should have been destroyed to check on Kriho’s history.
Laura passed away recently - http://www.westword.com/news/remembering-laura-kriho-outspoken-cannabis-advocate-and-true-believer-8748934