Author: Kristi Burton Brown

Kristi Burton Brown Colorado faces several major challenges, including rising crime and illegal drug use, soaring local property taxes, homelessness and questions about the quality of our kids’ education. Instead of facing these issues head on – which is hard work – our legislature has instead introduced irresponsible bills that either worsen these challenges or create entirely…

Kristi Burton Brown Religious intolerance has spiked in Colorado lately. Rather than work to tamp down anti-religious bias, the state is doubling down on discrimination by proposing to illegally ban religious schools from the state’s new universal preschool (UPK) program. The state’s plan is a bad idea anytime, but it is particularly troublesome given the…

Kristi Burton Brown El Paso County is a vital Republican stronghold in Colorado. It’s essential that Republicans work together if we want high voter turnout, community connections for our candidates, and effective messaging. I’ve been in state party leadership for the last four years, and El Paso County Republicans have been in the news for…

Kristi Burton BrownCourtesy photo 2022 is set to be a year of opportunity for Colorado Republicans. There’s a giant deficit in the Democrats’ performance in Colorado. With over a decade of single-party control at the state level, working-class Coloradans have suffered. They’re ready to try something new. Also read: COUNTERPOINT | Republicans rant; Democrats deliver Republicans…

Kristi Burton Brown Good health care matters to me as it does to most parents. When my daughter was a baby, she spent time in the hospital as we struggled to figure out what was wrong with her airways. She received a diagnosis for a condition that is manageable with the help of her specialist…

Kristi Burton Brown The Democrats want you to believe that they are the only ones who can make American women prosper – but women in Colorado know that we owe our newfound success to the economic policies of President Trump.  Sadly, the future of our unprecedented prosperity is more precarious now than ever before –…

Kristi Burton Brown Rep. Cathy Kipp, a freshman Democrat from Fort Collins, is proposing a bill, HB 1190, that threatens school equality in Colorado. On contentious issues like education funding (and why, exactly is this contentious?), it can be rare to find a brokered solution. And yet, in 2017, both sides of the aisle came…

Kristi Burton Brown As the hundreds of witnesses at Wednesday’s hearing testified, there are many reasons to oppose Reps. Susan Lontine and Yadira Caraveo’s sex education bill, House Bill 1032. As a constitutional attorney, I see a myriad of legal problems with the bill – and I’m not the only one. At least three constitutional…