House Minority Leaders Response to Announcement of Special Session

(Colorado State Capitol, November 9, 2023) -- Today, leaders of the House Minority Caucus responded to Governor Jared Polis announcing a Special Session on Property Tax Relief starting next week, on November 17.

“While it’s disappointing that it took the overwhelming defeat of Prop. HH to get their attention, it’s certainly my hope that the Governor and Democrats will now agree to common sense reforms to Colorado’s property tax mess and not just a simple band-aid to a complex problem,” said House Minority Leader Mike Lynch (R-Wellington). “Instead of addressing the concerns of homeowners a year ago we now have only days to correct a mess that was avoidable,” added Lynch.

“Coloradans have been bracing for months and have been asking for real and clean property tax relief,” said Assistant House Minority Leader Rose Pugliese (R-Colorado Springs). “We proposed bills during the regular legislative session to address this and then presented solutions once again when we called for the special session a few weeks back. Hopefully during this special session the Democrats will come to the table in good faith to provide real and clean property tax relief,” added Pugliese.

“We knew going into last session this was going to be an issue and presented real solutions to the Governor and Democrats,” said Representative Lisa Frizell (R-Castle Rock). “Those solutions fell on deaf ears as Democrats instead were focused on stealing your Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) rather than actually addressing skyrocketing property taxes. It is time to come to the table and actually address the problem,” added Frizell.