Author: Sean Duffy

Sean Duffy If conservatives are going to find a path back to power in Colorado, the key is to pick the right fights – with the right people.  While the Colorado Republican Party is eagerly picking fights with itself, the center-right crusaders at Advance Colorado are launching missiles at governing Democrats and their failing policies, getting…

Sean Duffy Tackling the tragedy of homelessness in the Denver metro area and helping these men and women at the margins of society get on a path to healthy self-sufficiency is again the focus of big promises and plans. Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has embraced an idealistic, historically flawed, strategy popular with bureaucrats and “homeless…

Sean Duffy The drive for greater social justice in Colorado seems to continually avoid truly shaking up the one institution that is essential for independent, productive and successful lives: public education. Turning a real reform spotlight on the perennial shortcomings of the K-12 system, and bucking the anti-accountability, anti-family teacher unions must rise on the…

050523-cp-web-oped-duffy-1 When you’re losing the argument, change the subject. This was the united effort of frustrated, intolerant progressives – here in Colorado and across the country – in the wake of Colorado, once again, being chastised by the U.S. Supreme Court for its heavy handed and illegal efforts to force citizens to violate their consciences and compel…

050523-cp-web-oped-duffy-1 Is there too much religion at the Colorado Capitol? That was the focus of an interesting and provocative piece in Colorado Politics examining the religious beliefs (or lack thereof) among the 100 Colorado legislators, finding 24% identify as non-religious, compared to the estimated 34% of all Coloradans. The contention is that, therefore, religious faith…

050523-cp-web-oped-duffy-1 We have come to a point where just being normal is noteworthy and newsworthy. Two Colorado athletes recently reached the pinnacle of their respective sports, and what many observers took note of was not only their compelling life stories, filled with struggles and challenging crossroads. What made news was they both reject the ego-driven,…

050523-cp-web-oped-duffy-1 What happened to all the liberals who claimed “dissent is patriotic” during the Trump years?  Now the dissent is on the center-right, and data are showing a shift toward more conservative views as people are increasingly fed up with not just the unending assault from wokeness, but the shambolic results of liberal policies on…

050523-cp-web-oped-duffy-1 Who is working the hardest to elect Democrats in Colorado? A leading candidate is state Republican Chair Dave Williams, who seems to want to run either a perpetual primary campaign against his former opponent or lead a pro-Trump advocacy group. But he doesn’t appear heavily motivated to do the hard, often thankless job of…

050523-cp-web-oped-duffy-1 It’s easy to take strong stands on controversial issues, pleasing to the political base, when consequences seem distant. Things change when the consequences arrive by the busload. Denver recently joined the list of cities where Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, frustrated by the negative impacts of virtually unrestricted access to his state’s southern border, is…

Sean Duffy We were supposedly past avalanche season, but a big one just landed on the GOP establishment in Colorado Springs. Let’s face it: anyone who would have said six months ago that a politically unaffiliated, restaurateur, pastor and father of young kids who emigrated here from Nigeria would become the first Black mayor of…