After attacks from the right in the wake of a failed vote to oust House Minority Leader Hugh McKean, a group of House Republican lawmakers and the state Republican Party
The violent events that culminated in Wednesdayâs storming of the U.S. Capitol at the behest of President Donald Trump is exactly what former state Rep. Dan Thurlow feared would happen.
Thurlow, a Republican who represented Grand Junction in the Colorado House from 2015 to 2019, has spent the past several years since leaving office trying to save his political party from a growing division between far-right Trump supporters and what people on that side of the party called him and other GOP moderates, a RINO (Republican in name only).
Well, they canât call him that anymore.
Frustrated over what he couldnât accomplish within the party forced him to make a tough choice, to leave it.