Is CO GOP's Upcoming 'Contract With Colorado' a Recipe for Success or a Rehash of Old Failures?

For months, Republicans in Colorado have been touting a “Contract for Colorado,” slated for public release in August, that’s intended to restore the state party to relevance after a 20-year trend of losing legislative majorities in the Colorado House and Colorado Senate and failing to sustain control of statewide offices.

However, to observers with institutional knowledge of national and state politics, their idea is not new. It is tainted and confused by previous iterations of contracts with Americans and Coloradans that offer dubious records of failure and success.

The original Contract with America was formulated in 1994 by then-Minority Whip of the U.S. House, Newt Gingrich, and then-Conference Leader, Dick Armey. That Contract-with-America strategy sought to return Republican majorities to both houses of Congress after 40 years of mostly Democratic control.

Basically, the 1994 national contract was a list of ten broad legislative outcomes, including a balanced budget amendment, term limits, social security reform, that Republicans promised to pursue and enact in return for Americans’ promise to vote for GOP candidates, hopefully garnering sufficient representatives and senators to take control of one or both houses of Congress.

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