December 09, 2010 09:16 PM UTC

BREAKING: Ali Hassan, the one & only, switches parties

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• by: ardy39

Colorado GOP loses Hasan

Prominent Muslim political figure fed up with party bigotry

Muhammad Ali Hasan, a member of the wealthy and influential Colorado Republican Hasan family and a past state House and treasurer candidate, said he is switching parties. Speaking at the University of Colorado-Boulder on his experience growing up Muslim in the American West and later in conversation with the Colorado Independent, Hasan said he is ending his affiliation with the party for the bigotry he believes has shaped Republican politics over the last year.

As reported in The Colorado Independent

Welcome, Ali.

(I hope you don’t get too frustrated with Democratic spinelessness too quickly.)