From the Denver Post:
MoreColorado Republican Party Chairman Dick Wadhams said the legislation, House Bill 1408, would “change the rules so rural Colorado will essentially be disenfranchised from electing members of Congress.”
Senate Majority Leader John Morse, D-Colorado Springs, and House Majority Leader Paul Weissman, D-Louisville, introduced the bill last week, and Wadhams zeroed in on a provision he said would remove a requirement that the eastern plains and western slope be seen as “communities of interest” and not be split into multiple congressional districts.
But Wadhams also turned his fire on Democratic Secretary of State Bernie Buescher, referring to the redistricting bill as the “Morse-Weissmann-Buescher” bill.
“This is a very disturbing pattern of behavior by Buescher and Democratic legislators who are desperate to rig Colorado elections,” Wadhams said in a statement.
But Rich Coolidge, a spokesman for Buescher, said his boss had not even seen a copy of the bill until this morning.
“We had nothing to do with that,” Coolidge said.
Wadhams scoffed at that.
“That’s funny,” Wadhams said. “He claimed he had nothing to do with the Carroll Acorn Empowerment Act either a couple of weeks ago. Does he support this bill that guts rural Colorado or not?”
