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Some Colorado GOP officials and candidates are pressuring their leader, state party chair Dave Williams, to resign.
The push comes in response to anti-LGBTQ Pride emails and social media posts from the party, including one calling on people to “Burn all the #pride flags this June.”
The messages were a final provocation for those Republicans exhausted by Wiliams’ already tumultuous tenure at the helm of an embattled and diminished Colorado GOP. With the state primary just weeks away, the anti-Pride emails appear to have ignited long-standing criticisms into an unprecedented public uprising against a state party chair.
Two candidates renounced the state party’s endorsement over the emails, and a coalition of local party leaders are also asking Williams to step down.
“We are calling for the immediate removal of Mr. David Williams, the Chair of the Colorado GOP, for continuing to incite hatred and further division in Colorado,” states a letter signed by local party leaders in Teller County, as well as Republican municipal leaders in the cities of Woodland Park, Cripple Creek and Victor.
The head of the Jefferson County Republican Party Nancy Pallozzi also released a formal letter demanding Williams resign. And opponents have started gathering signatures to force a vote by the state central committee on whether to retain him as chair.