WorldNetDaily writer Bob Unruh’s weird rage at his home state of Colorado for failing to be a den of right-wing ideology continued in a July 9 article:
A newly published commentary notes that Colorado Democrats in the state legislature, who with other Democrats control virtually every aspect of Colorado’s government, are fleeing – en masse.
At least 20% of the lawmakers who sit in Denver making rules and regulations for their taxpayers have not been elected; they were appointed by party elites, much like Kamala Harris was appointed to be the party’s 2024 presidential candidate.
Unruh’s attacks got more personal:
Absolute Democrat control in the state that used to swing back and forth regularly between Democrat and Republican majorities developed two decades ago. That was when, according to a report from American Majority, that the “Gang of Four” billionaires and lowly multi-millionaires essentially bought the state government.
Rutt Bridges, now-Gov. Jared Polis, Tim Gill and Pat Stryker, all pushing the extremes of the leftist agenda, conspired to use their wealth to organize a new Democrat party, “from policy generation to leadership recruiting, coalition building to grassroots activation.”
Stryker is a billionaire heiress to a medical tech fortune, and she donated $1.5 million in support of Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 campaign; Gill started Quark, Bridges once said he had “more money than I could spend,” and Polis took advantage of early dot-com miscalculations, selling online rights to his parents Blue Mountain Arts greeting card slogans to another company for hundreds of millions of dollars, which then collapsed, and he bought them back at a fraction of the original price.
He spent $1 million to his political start, a seat on the Colorado Board of Education which is an unpaid, part-time time. His GOP opponent raised $10,000, and, reports said, had offered to drop out if Polis has split the difference and given him $500,000.
The report noted what the “Gang” did was flood races with money that no local Republican candidate could hope to compete with, using “dozens” of 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4) and 527 organizations that they personally funded.
The result? “The Democrat Party didn’t win Colorado: the progressive left did. They simply used the Democrat Party as a vehicle by which to achieve their political ends.”
Note that Unruh is so angry that he won’t point out, like a responsible journalist would, that the report he quotes deliberately gets the name of the Democratic Party wrong, and he didn’t explain why he’s so mad at rich liberals when he doesn’t have the same disdain for rich right-wingers. Unruh’s hate continued:
Since then, there’s been a long list of Democrat governors. The state House and Senate have near veto-proof Democrat majorities. The state’s top officials are all Democrats.
The agenda has been made clear by their goals and actions.
An all-Democrat state Supreme Court tried to remove President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot, only to be reprimanded by the U.S. Supreme Court. The state repeatedly has launched attacks on Christianity, demanding its own messaging and disregarding constitutional rights. In one case it got scolded by the Supreme Court for its hostility to Christianity, but it immediately launched the same allegations against another defendant, to be struck down again.
It tried this year to force a Christian children’s camp to allow boys in the girls cabins, and showers.
It right now is arguing before the Supreme Court that it has the right to control the speech of Christian counselors who want to help patients to come to them with unwanted same-sex feelings.
The state essentially says, in that case, that counselors are allowed to promote the LGBT ideology, but are not allowed even to mention anything negative about the lifestyle.
That, of course, is better known as anti-LGBT conversion therapy, the harmfulness of which Unruh and WND have been trying to rebrand and whitewash for years. Unruh followed this by huffily noting that Polis is an “openly homosexual governor.”
Unruh did more raging at Colorado in a July 18 article:
If nothing else, Colorado officials have proven their persistence in their agenda to control everyone’s speech.
First, following the demands of a homosexual Gov. Jared Polis and a Democrat-majority state House and Senate, they tried to force a Christian baker to endorse same-sex marriage. Millions of tax dollars later they not only lost, but were scolded by the U.S. Supreme Court for their “hostility” to Christianity.
They tried the same stunt, under the guise of “non-discrimination,” with a web designer. Again the Supreme Court knocked the state down.
They’re also arguing for their right to control others’ speech in another case now before the Supreme Court, involving state-mandated censorship of counselors.
Now state officials have adopted a scheme that would require a bookstore to express ideas its owners don’t believe, and it’s already in the courts.
Again.
The story is about a right-wing Christian bookstore who refuses to “address customers according to their “preferred pronouns,” meaning that bookstore workers have to call a woman ‘he’ and a man ‘she’ if that’s what they want,” framing such hate-based disrespect as “values” that must be defended.
Unruh cranked out more Colorado=bashing in an Aug. 25 article:
The all-Democrat government in Colorado – governor’s office, state House, state Senate and state Supreme Court – for years has had an agenda to eliminate the rights protected by the First Amendment.
It has tried over and over to set state requirements for speech that try to control the messages that people and organizations are allowed to express.
And now it’s getting sued for its latest scheming.
NetChoice, a social media corporation trade organization, sued the state “to stop the government’s attacks on websites that host free speech.”
The organization said in an announcement the state law, HB 24-1136, “mandates that websites display state-approved ‘warning’ messages to deter users from using online services and to promote the government’s controversial views on social media.”
“States can’t do by ‘warning label’ what they can’t do by outright ban. Trying to chill speech through stigma is still unconstitutional censorship, and we’re fighting to stop it in NetChoice v. Weiser,” the organization announced.
Unruh waited until the 13th paragraph to disclose what the fight was really about: a law requiring “advisory labels for underage users warning of the brain development effects of social media use.” He didn’t mention that the pop-up advisories would appear only during overnight hours and only after a user has spent an hour or more on the platform. But Unruh doesn’t want to truthfully inform his readers — he just wants to rage at his home state again:
The state has gone to war against Christians multiple times in recent years, attempting to force them to spout the state’s leftist messaging, specifically regarding the LGTB agenda.
Under homosexual Gov. Jared Polis, the state went all the way to the Supreme Court to try to force baker Jack Phillips to promote same-sex ideology with his cake artistry. The state lost, and got scolded by the high court for its “hostility” to Christianity.
The state did the same thing with a wedding site web designer, and lost again.
It is pursuing yet a third case, this time restricting the free speech of counselors, a case that hasn’t reached a final resolution yet.
Unruh hasn’t explain why he’s so obsessed with making sure people know that Polis is a “homosexual.”