County chair reprimanded over effort to oust Colorado GOP chair

DENVER (KDVR) — Drama surrounding the Colorado Republican Party keeps unfolding.
Overnight, the Jefferson County Republican leading the effort to remove the state Republican Party chair was censured by her party members.

Interviews Jefferson County Republican Party Chair Nancy Pallozzi did with FOX31 and others, as well as information she put out about the effort to remove Republican Party Chair Dave Williams got her in hot water with her party. Executive Committee members of the Jefferson County Republican Party said she used party letterhead and her title as Jefferson County Republican chair instead of a member of the Colorado State Central Committee, or the SCC.

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That is the committee that will vote to remove Williams as party chair if 60% of the group agrees to do so.

“I think this is a delay tactic as they try to individually go after people who might be against him and try to isolate them so it doesn’t turn into this 60% that they need to get rid of him,” FOX31 Republican political analyst Michael Fields said.

The censure calls for Pallozzi to stop communicating on the effort in her capacity as the county party chair. It also calls for the actions she took in the effort to be rendered null and void. She will remain chair of the Jefferson County Republican Party.

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Fields said this does not mean the push to remove Williams as chair is over.

“The votes are there. It doesn’t matter if the Jeffco chair puts it in or if someone else puts it in. Obviously, this isn’t going to lead people to take their name off this list. So it might be the Denver GOP or the Arapahoe GOP to take up this movement and say we will go and recollect the signatures or take that list and resubmit it,” Fields said.

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Before the censure, Pallozzi planned to deliver the petition signatures to Williams so that he could set a date for committee members to vote. Fields said that will likely happen at a later date now.

“This is gonna be done after that primary is over at this point, but I don’t think this move in Jefferson County will stop the overall movement, which is to get the signatures to have a vote by that Central Committee,” Fields said.

Fields believes Republicans across the state are also growing frustrated with Williams, with his incidents happening just before the statewide primary election on the June 25.

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