Jeff Hurd

Opponents say the public parcel near Carbondale is more accessible and valuable for hunting, and that transferring it could make nearby Forest Service land harder to reach.

Representative Jeff Herd's office drafted a bill to authorize the exchange called the GAME Act.

It has not been introduced, and there is no official bill text yet.

The ranch pursued this congressional route after concluding that the BLM-led exchange could take years.

I highlighted this kind of at the beginning of the episode, but if Republicans stay home in November because they aren't excited to vote for Marx, that's a huge problem for down-ballot candidates across Colorado.

Think Gabe Evans in the hotly contested 8th Congressional District, Jeff Crank and Jeff Hurd in the 5th and 3rd Districts.

There are legislative races that are going to be close that Republicans want to win this year.

We talked about Heidi Ganahl.

Seven of those 11 were redrawn by Republicans [laughs] to strongly favor r- the GOP.

Trump won 18 of these districts by 10 points or more, including Kentucky 6, South Carolina 1, Montana 1, and seats held by Max Miller and Jeff Herd.

I mean, that's where we are right now.

That's where the, that's where the-- that's the climate right now.

[upbeat music] In local news, healthcare is a major point of contention separating the candidates for Colorado's third congressional district.

Republican representative Jeff Hurd won the seat two years ago.

His Democratic challenger, Duane Romero, is highly critical of Hurd's vote for President Trump's so-called Big Beautiful Bill.

It made cuts to Medicaid and stripped away federal subsidies that help people pay for health insurance.

Bye.

The other Republican Jeff, uh, Jeff Hurd, the bread sandwich over in the third congressional district, uh, things are getting a little tight around the collar for him.

Democrat Duane Romero was recently added-

Friend of the pod

No, you don't get on Red to Blue unless you hit certain objective marks.

You have to have polling numbers that look a certain way, you have to have campaign finance numbers that look a certain way, and you have to have an opponent doing or not doing certain things.

And apparently, Duane has checked all these boxes and so has bread sandwich Jeff Hurd, so this guy's got himself a real race.

We were talking earlier, and we had a, a listener, uh, t- respond to us on Blue Sky asking what we think is eight-zero congressional delegation from Colorado possible.

Then, if the national vibes for Republicans are bad, the Colorado vibes are a lot worser as the red team finds out it's hard to generate enthusiasm with a terrible top of the ticket.

Then Victor Marx gets sad in Alamosa, Jeff Hurd dodges the same question four times, Gabe Evans' bullshit fake data center bill hits a blue wall in the US Senate, Michael Allen is even more full of shit, rich assholes are lying about the graduated income tax, and we pop on over to Texas to check in on their shit show of a Senate race.

Yee-haw.

[laughs] Sorry, I'm just having fun with these now.

Only trying to get smarter.

I'm only trying to get smarter.

Well, Congressman Jeff Hurd, Hurd III, the bread sandwich, was smart enough not to attend that Alamosa event with Marks.

Even though it's in his district, right? [laughs]

Colorado's 3rd District, Democrat Dwayne Romero.

giving a tight race to Jeff Hurd, the Republican incumbent there.

We had Elliott Rodriguez on last week.

This has been identified by the DCCC as a target race now.