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Colorado GOP sends transphobic email to Democratic opponent
The Colorado GOP sent out a transphobic email attacking a Durango Democrat running to unseat a Republican.
Vivian Smotherman – a transgender farmer and Navy veteran – is running to unseat Republican Senator Cleave Simpson in Senate District 6. The GOP sent the email out last Thursday, and it repeatedly misgenders Smotherman. It also included a screenshot of a social media post from the far-right “Libs of TikTok” account, calling Smotherman “a man pretending to be a woman.”
Simpson claims he didn’t know about the email before it was sent, and that he has apologized to his opponent.
Smotherman called the email a fear-mongering distraction, according to The Colorado Sun.
This is the second homophobic email sent out by the Colorado GOP over the past few months – the first was back in June, when Chairman Dave Williams put out a mass email accusing the LGBTQ community of being QUOTE “godless groomers” who want to harm children.
Colorado seals over 100,000 criminal records
Colorado is sealing over 100,000 court records related to misdemeanors and felonies.
That’s due to a new law, called the Clean Slate Act. It applies to nonviolent offenses and is intended to help people with criminal records pass background checks for jobs and housing.
Prior to the new law, Colorado allowed people to petition to seal their arrests and convictions. Now, the state judicial system will automatically seal eligible misdemeanors after seven years, and some felonies after 10 years. Many involve drugs or theft.
The law requires the Colorado Judicial Department to produce a list four times a year of all eligible records, and then pass them along to district attorneys across the state. Those attorneys have 45 days to object to records in their region.
While landlords, businesses, and schools won’t be able to see the records on background checks, the government – including prosecutors – will still have access to them.
Water utility asks customers to change lawn-watering schedules
Colorado’s largest water utility is asking customers to start watering their lawns on Tuesdays, instead of Mondays.
Roughly 80% of Denver Water’s 1.5 million customers have watering systems, but The Colorado Sun reports that too many are starting early Monday morning.
Water officials told The Sun that customers are stressing the water system and threatening the supply of locally stored water. They added that the utility will have to upgrade its delivery system and increase the amount of treated water it keeps stored for daily use if customers don’t shift their schedules.
The utility is urging customers to start watering on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, rather than Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Three wolf pups born to new Colorado pack
Colorado’s wolf reintroduction effort has officially led to the birth of three wolf pups.
Three wolf pups playing in a puddle on a dirt road were caught on camera. Colorado Parks and Wildlife posted the video on X, where they confirmed the pups are part of the Copper Creek pack.
The three pups are between 40 and 50 pounds.
People who see a wolf can report the sighting to Colorado Parks and Wildlife via an online form, which helps biologists track the reintroduction efforts.
Hundreds of flights delayed or canceled at DIA due to severe thunderstorm
More than 700 flights were delayed or canceled at Denver International Airport yesterday due to a severe thunderstorm that swept across Colorado’s Eastern Plains.
There were 712 delays and 21 cancellations as of 7:00 p.m. last night, according to FlightAware. United Airlines reported the most delays, followed by Southwest Airlines.
The average delay time for arriving flights was around one hour.
