Why Hurd is wrong for CO and Scheppelman is right

Bottom Line

Jeff Hurd is a moderate, establishment backed freshman incumbent who:

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WHY SCHEPPELMAN OVER HURD

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Jeff Hurd is the primary co-sponsor of the Gunnison Outdoor Resources Protection (GORP) Act. This bill would not exist without his signature and support. It is being driven by well-funded, far-left NGOs hiding behind feel-good words like “conservation” and “wilderness.” These are manipulation terms, not solutions — the same language used to quietly advance woke ideology and indoctrinate our children while stripping families of control. This isn’t about protecting land. It’s about expanding federal control, locking up Western Colorado, and silencing the people who live and work here. I will always stand with our ranchers, energy workers, and rural communities — not radical NGOs and Washington power brokers.

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It’s also worth noting that Jeff Hurd opposed President Trump’s pardons of the January 6 prisoners—Americans who have been locked away for years without due process, denied equal protection under the law, and abandoned by the very politicians who lecture us about “civil liberties.” I believe in equal justice, not political persecution. Not selective outrage. Not a two-tiered system where the government decides who deserves rights and who doesn’t. Political prisoners have no place in a free nation.

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Jeff Hurd attacks tariffs while turning around and voting to spend the money they bring in on government programs. You don’t get to bash the policy and still cash the check.

That’s not conservative.
That’s hypocrisy.

  • National defense & the military
  • Border security & Customs and Border Protection
  • Veterans’ benefits
  • Infrastructure (roads, bridges, ports)
  • Disaster relief
  • Debt reduction
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Jeff Hurd has made his position clear: he opposes mass deportation and believes Americans must first become victims of a crime before he would support deporting illegal immigrants. That position is unacceptable. Public safety should come before tragedy—not after—and that is exactly why this contrast matters.

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You will notice that the letters addressed to Governor Polis do not include Jeff Hurd’s name. These letters are meant to hold Governor Polis directly accountable for Colorado’s reckless sanctuary-state policies and the resulting soft-on-crime environment that is putting our communities at risk.

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It’s telling that after the attack on Charlie Kirk, Jeff Hurd still voted to keep Ilhan Omar on her committees. Omar’s record of antisemitic rhetoric is well-documented, yet when accountability actually mattered, Hurd chose to side with the radical Democrat status quo. Instead of standing with Americans and unequivocally condemning hate and political violence, Jeff Hurd protected a member of Congress whose words have fueled division and antisemitism at home. That vote spoke volumes — and it wasn’t courage.

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Jeff Hurd supports Obamacare and the massive federal subsidies that keep it alive — a system that has raised premiums, limited choices, and forced Coloradans into government-controlled healthcare. Those subsidies funnel taxpayer dollars into insurance plans that include abortion coverage and taxpayer-subsidized gender transition procedures for minors (chemical castration and surgical mutilation), while rural hospitals close and families on the Western Slope struggle to afford basic care. Obamacare isn’t compassionate — it’s coercive. It replaces doctors and patients with Washington mandates and forces hardworking Coloradans to bankroll policies that violate their values.

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Jeff Hurd refuses to sign the U.S. Term Limits Constitutional Amendment pledge. That tells you everything. Washington was never meant to be a lifetime job, yet Hurd is choosing the career-politician culture over the people of Colorado. If you won’t limit your own power, you were never sent there to serve. Here is the pledge I promise to you: I will fight to end career politics and return Congress to citizen leadership.

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Scheppelman vs Hurd

Head-to-Head: What Sets These Candidates Apart & why we need HOPE!

Hope Scheppelman

  • I am a Christian
  • I am a veteran (Hospital Corpsman, U.S. Navy).

  • I am a Critical Care Nurse Practitioner.
  • I have lived and fought the fentanyl crisis — professionally and personally (family member died of this poison in 2019).

  • I have saved lives on the front lines.

  • I am deeply rooted in rural Colorado life.
  • I work the land, understand water rights, agriculture, and ranching impacts.
  • I have directly served the grassroots.

  • I voted for Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024
  • I served as Vice Chairwoman of the Colorado GOP.

  • I helped reinstate President Donald J. Trump on the Colorado primary ballot after Colorado’s Secretary of State, Jena Griswold, used political lawfare to keep him off—securing a historic constitutional win for voters and the rule of law.

  • I am a fighter, not a placeholder.

Jeff Hurd

  • Hurd has never served.
  • He is a slick lawyer.

  • He talks about rural Colorado — I live it.
  • Hurd has no party leadership experience.
  • Hurd has never taken a stance on Trump if he voted for him in 2016, 2020, or 2024

  • Hurd blends quietly into the DC crowd.