Colorado Leg Gets a Little Heated Colorado, Legislatures, Republicans

Ever since the Colorado Legislature flipped from red to blue this year, Democrats have been trying to figure out how to repeat that success across the West. Republicans, meanwhile, have been going crazy alternating between recriminations and soul-searching.

Now comes word that at least one member of the newly disempowered GOP has lost it. Actually, he's the minority caucus chair. Ladies and gentlemen... Representative Bill Cadman, of Colorado Springs:

A dispute between two state representatives over a military license-plate bill escalated into a foul-mouthed threat of bodily injury on the House floor Tuesday.

"If you try that again, I'll ram my fist up your ass," Republican Bill Cadman told his Democratic colleague, Val Vigil, at Vigil's desk during the morning session.

So much for decorum. Of course, it was just three weeks ago when Representative Cadman said this about a state employee: "He has a right to say anything he wants, but we don't have to keep paying him to say it."

True, so true, Bill.

Kari Chisholm | February 25, 2005 | Comment on This Post (1 so far) Permalink: Colorado Leg Gets a Little Heated Colorado, Legislatures, Republicans

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