March 17, 2023 03:15 PM UTC

The Colorado GOP's Future Is "Nancy Pallozzi"

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• by: Colorado Pols

Don’t take our word for it, find out yourself next Tuesday:

Among the many victories of the “whacktivist” right in the recent Colorado Republican Party internal leadership elections, very much in line with Dave “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams’ election to be the next state GOP chairman and Vickie Tonkins’ enduring reign of error in El Paso County, the Jefferson County Republican Party, operating in what was once considered to be the competitive bellwether locale in Colorado elections, has selected longtime local recall organizer and multi-election loser Nancy Pallozzi to lead them into the 2024 election cycle.

Pallozzi is probably best known for her two failed attempts to recall now-Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen of Lakewood from her Lakewood state senate seat, one of which was pulled for lack of support only three days after it was filed. Those failed recall attempts came after Pallozzi lost to Pettersen by 20 points in the 2016 elections. Pallozzi was also a bit player in one of the competing grifty failed attempts to recall Gov. Jared Polis. Without any other distinguishment or qualification, Pallozzi’s whole theory of political engagement appears to rest on her name’s phonetic similarity to former Speaker of the U.S. House Nancy Pelosi.

And now, “Nancy Pallozzi” is bringing the skills she showed failing to recall everybody in sight to the task of reviving the Republican Party’s flagging fortunes in a county that has in recent years exemplified the state’s overall shift toward Democratic dominance. It’s not a prank or a late-night TV sketch. Like “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams himself, Nancy Pallozzi imagines she will be taken seriously.

All we can say is, the couple of times this joke was funny will not substitute for competent leadership.