{"id":791383,"date":"2018-12-18T07:27:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T14:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=352565"},"modified":"2018-12-18T07:27:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T14:27:04","slug":"colorado-sen-randy-baumgardner-stepping-down-after-beating-expulsion-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/colorado-sen-randy-baumgardner-stepping-down-after-beating-expulsion-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Sen. Randy Baumgardner stepping down after beating expulsion vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rural state senator who beat\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2018\/04\/02\/randy-baumgardner-expulsion-vote-results\/\">an expulsion vote<\/a>\u00a0following sexual harassment allegations during the 2018 legislative session is leaving his seat in five weeks.<\/p>\n<p>State Sen. Randy Baumgardner, a Republican who represents Hot Sulphur Springs and other northwestern Colorado communities, said in a letter to the Senate&#8217;s secretary that his time as a lawmaker had been &#8220;rewarding beyond belief.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/denver.cbslocal.com\/2018\/12\/17\/randy-baumgardner-colorado-senator\/\">CBS4, which first broke the news,<\/a>\u00a0reported that Baumgardner made the decision so his family would not be subjected to the possibility of another vote.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year an independent investigator found it &#8220;more likely than not&#8221; that Baumgardner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2018\/04\/02\/randy-baumgardner-expulsion-vote-results\/\">grabbed and slapped the buttocks of a legislative aide<\/a> for a Democratic senator four times in 2016.\u00a0Baumgardner, who denied the charge, avoided expulsion on a near-party-line 17-17 vote.<\/p>\n<p>His voluntary exit now comes as no surprise to close observers of the Capitol. Rumors that he would resign have circulated since Democrats won a Senate majority in November.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2018\/12\/17\/randy-baumgardner-retiring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story on denverpost.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/colorado-sen-randy-baumgardner-stepping-down-after-beating-expulsion-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rural state senator who beat\u00a0an expulsion vote\u00a0following sexual harassment allegations during the 2018 legislative session is leaving his seat in five weeks. State Sen. Randy Baumgardner, a Republican who represents Hot Sulphur Springs and other northwestern Colorado communities, said in a letter to the Senate&#8217;s secretary that his time as a lawmaker had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-791383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 06:27:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}