The Colorado Sun’s Jesse Paul reports that a nonprofit tied to Democratic leadership in the U.S. House is helping fund an effort to redraw Colorado’s congressional map before the normal redistricting cycle. Coloradans For a Level Playing Field received $150,000 from House Majority Forward, a nonprofit aligned with House Majority PAC, which is controlled by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
The proposal would ask voters to adopt a new congressional map for the 2028 and 2030 elections, before Colorado’s independent congressional redistricting commission gets its next shot after the 2030 census. The Colorado Sun reports the new map would make Democrats favored in seven of Colorado’s eight congressional seats, up from the four they currently hold. Well, well. Knock me over with a feather and call it “democracy protection.”
The Bullet Point Brief
- A group trying to redraw Colorado’s congressional map is being funded in part by a nonprofit tied to national Democratic leadership. Nothing says “local control” like a Washington, D.C. money hose pointed at Colorado’s constitution.
- Coloradans For a Level Playing Field received $150,000 from House Majority Forward and $90,000 from the Fairness Project, both liberal nonprofits that do not disclose their donors. Ah yes, transparency, but make it dark money with a halo.
- The proposed map would help Democrats in the 3rd, 5th, and 8th congressional districts, currently held by Republicans Jeff Hurd, Jeff Crank, and Gabe Evans. Funny how the “level playing field” always seems to tilt toward the people naming it.
- Colorado voters created independent redistricting commissions in 2018 through constitutional amendments. Weld County and everyone else had to live under that system, but now national Democrats apparently think the rules need a little mid-game massage.
- The proposal still has to pass Colorado Supreme Court review and gather 125,000 signatures, including from at least 2% of voters in each of Colorado’s 35 Senate districts. Translation: this little democracy-saving exercise will require a lot of paid signature gatherers and a whole lot of convenient amnesia.
My Bottom Line
Well, well. You are telling me big-money, dark-money Democrats are here in Colorado trying to work around our independent redistricting system and gerrymander election maps? Say it ain’t so.
I am not surprised. Not even a little. These 501(c)(3) and nonprofit political laundromats are filthy little machines for the ruling elite. They hide donors, move money, slap on civic-sounding names, and then pretend the whole operation is powered by good intentions and neighborhood volunteers wearing sensible shoes. Please.
Colorado voters created an independent redistricting process because they were tired of politicians drawing their own playgrounds. Weld County was forced to follow that process. Counties, candidates, and voters all had to live with the map the commission produced. But now that Democrats see a chance to grab more seats, suddenly the sacred independent process is just a speed bump.
Do not miss the arrogance here. The same crowd that lectures us endlessly about democracy is perfectly willing to bend the rules, rewrite the map, and use dark-money outfits to do it, so long as the outcome helps them. They do not want fair maps. They want favorable maps. And they think voters are too distracted, too tired, or too trusting to notice.
The great suburban normie had better wake up before it is too late. Because this is how the game gets rigged. Not with a villain twirling a mustache in a smoky room, but with nonprofits, ballot language, paid signature gatherers, and a press release full of words like “fairness” and “level playing field.” If they get away with this, do not act surprised when the next election feels less like a contest and more like a managed outcome.
Source: The Colorado Sun
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