Healthier Colorado names Sen. Kirkmeyer Early Childhood Champion
July 12, 2023
Kirkmeyer helps give children every opportunity possible
Our children deserve every opportunity to grow into successful, healthy adults. This is why Healthier Colorado is presenting the Early Childhood Award for the first time this year. This 2023 Legislative Session, @SenKirkmeyer
championed bills that set our kids up for success. Thank you for supporting our kids, Senator Kirkmeyer! #coleg #cohealth #copolitics @ColoSenGOP

Colorado’s energy policy is hurting our economy, it’s time for a change. Over the past few years, Coloradans have watched as policies passed by Democrats in the General Assembly have decimated the oil and natural gas industry in Colorado and raised the already high cost of living for our state. As Republicans, we believe affordable energy and energy independence are goals worth striving for, and we have a plan to succeed.

Fentanyl is poison, and it’s time that Colorado policy makers recognize it as such. Drug dealers are lacing recreational drugs with fentanyl, often unbeknownst to drug users, to get users hooked. If tobacco companies did this, Congress and the Colorado General Assembly would jump to action. The same would be true if drug dealers were lacing drugs with cyanide. Why are we treating fentanyl differently?

The Colorado Senate on Thursday passed a "wildly out of balance" budget, as the chamber’s majority and minority leaders both called it, but lawmakers pledged it would return to constitutionally required equilibrium in the next legislative phase. The bulk of the imbalance comes from a single $503 million amendment that’s intended to finally pay back what the state owes to K-12 schools. The author of the change also hopes to get more money to teachers. It’s a pledge that has bipartisan support — but nonetheless is poised to evaporate under questions of constitutionality.