Colorado’s inaugural Congressional Redistricting Commission chairman Danny Moore has been voted out of his leadership position, days after his inflammatory social media posts were reported by The Gazette and other media outlets.
Moore authored posts that questioned the 2020 election outcome and called it “The Democrat steal,” as well as posts defending using “The Chinese virus” to describe COVID-19 as not racist, posts accusing media of lying about the coronavirus pandemic and posts accusing a Denver TV station of staging a confrontation that led to a security contractor hired by the station shooting and killing a man at a protest in the summer of 2020.
The chairman of Colorado’s independent congressional redistricting commission said he does not intend to step down from his leadership position on the commission and has taken to social media calling
The House on Thursday approved a bill seeking to bolster the pipeline of inmates who participated in the state Department of Corrections’ wildland fire management program to jobs fighting fires after they are released, sending the proposal to Gov. Jared Polis’ desk.
Senate Bill 21-012 from Sen. Kerry Donovan, D-Vail, and Rep. Dylan Roberts, D-Avon, would require the state Division of Fire Prevention and Control to develop materials to inform participants of DOC’s State Wildland Inmate Fire Team of post-incarceration job opportunities. The bill would also develop a peer mentor program and ask DFPC to not disqualify an applicant solely on their incarceration history, which Donovan said the division hasn’t previously done.
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A fundamental challenge faces Colorado’s first independent redistricting commissions: How can they do their job — redrawing the state’s political maps — without U.S. Census data?