{"id":791488,"date":"2018-12-20T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T01:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/littwin-it-was-cleanup-time-at-the-state-senate-and-baumgardner-was-swept-out\/"},"modified":"2018-12-20T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T01:24:00","slug":"littwin-it-was-cleanup-time-at-the-state-senate-and-baumgardner-was-swept-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/littwin-it-was-cleanup-time-at-the-state-senate-and-baumgardner-was-swept-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Littwin: It was cleanup time at the state Senate, and Baumgardner was swept out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As you&#8217;ve probably heard, Randy Baumgardner, the oft-accused sexual harasser who survived an expulsion vote last session, has now resigned from the state Senate. But only after considerable, um, encouragement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It&#8217;s kind of fitting, I guess, but you could say Baumgardner was basically harassed out of office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It&#8217;s a new day, with new consequences. No one could have imagined a year ago that Baumgardner would have been forced to resign, that Steve Lebsock would have been expelled, that the #MeToo movement would have dominated the last session of the legislature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Democrats are in the majority now, and they wanted Baumgardner out last April. The Republican leadership, which had done all it could to protect Baumgardner when it held a one-vote majority, is now in the minority and probably relieved to see him go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\">Read the full column at <a id=\"N0x1d61c10N0x1ffa990:N0x1d61c10N0x1e696e0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coloradoindependent.com\/2018\/12\/18\/littwin-colorado-senate-baumgardner-lebsock-metoo\/\">Colorado Independent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/littwin-it-was-cleanup-time-at-the-state-senate-and-baumgardner-was-swept-out\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you&#8217;ve probably heard, Randy Baumgardner, the oft-accused sexual harasser who survived an expulsion vote last session, has now resigned from the state Senate. But only after considerable, um, encouragement. It&#8217;s kind of fitting, I guess, but you could say Baumgardner was basically harassed out of office. It&#8217;s a new day, with new consequences. No [&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-791488","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 08:11:53","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\/791488","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=791488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}