Hurd the Tu$d and the GORP Scam on Republicans

Patriots of CD3 and Colorado’s grassroots army, gather 'round and meet the latest Benedict Arnold in a Brooks Brothers suit: one of our own, Congressman Jeff Hurd. Once hailed as a commonsense conservative representing Colorado’s rugged CD3, Hurd has now decided he’d rather carry water for Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper than stand up for Trump’s agenda of energy independence, private property rights, or even basic economic sanity. His weapon of betrayal? The Gunnison Outdoor Resources Protection (GORP) Act, a bloated, government-knows-best land grab disguised as “bipartisan conservation.”

Let’s be honest. The GORP Act is environmental extremism disguised as an Aspen flannel shirt. It aims to block nearly three-quarters of a million acres of Colorado land, specifically 730,000 acres, under federal designations that sound friendly and gentle - wilderness areas, special management zones, wildlife sanctuaries. In reality, this means no grazing, no drilling, no mining, no tree harvesting, and no jobs. It's just bureaucrats congratulating themselves while ranchers, drillers, and working families suffer the consequences. Truly disgusting!

Hurd is out here smiling for photo ops with Bennet and Hickenpooper while stabbing the very people who sent him to Washington in the back. Did he forget that Colorado’s oil and gas industry contributed $1.2 billion to state and local taxes in 2023? And that was during Sleepy Joe Biden’s administration! Did he miss the memo that BLM lands aren’t playgrounds for REI executives, but are vital to Colorado’s ranchers, energy workers, and small-town economies?

And let’s not pretend this is just a harmless little zoning tweak. The GORP Act withdraws 74,000 acres in Delta County from oil and gas leasing. That’s not conservation; that’s economic sabotage. This is federal overreach on steroids, locking away land for “preservation” while driving up energy prices, slashing rural revenue, and punishing the very industries that fund our schools, roads, and fire departments. You want to see the devastation? Go to Craig, Colorado. It will be what happens to all the small towns on the western slope if this passes.

Worse, Hurd is now playing both sides like a shady lobbyist in a D.C. steakhouse. On one hand, he’s supporting the GORP Act to get praise from the green progressives. On the other, he’s promoting the “Productive Public Lands Act” to undo Biden’s anti-drilling regulations. So which is it, Jeff? Are you pro-energy or pro-eco-tyranny? You can’t be both.

The truth is, Hurd is trying to have it both ways, kowtowing to Democrats while gaslighting conservatives. And in doing so, he’s proving exactly what we said he was from the start: a smooth-talking, double-dealing RINO whose loyalty is with Beltway and Aspen elites, not the real working people of CD3.

Let me be clear: Public lands belong to all Americans, not just environmental lobbyists with Aspen zip codes. Turning them into untouchable green zones for bureaucratic bragging rights is a slap in the face to taxpayers nationwide. Hurd’s actions aren’t just contradictory, they’re cowardly.

If Jeff Hurd won’t defend Colorado’s economic engine, our property rights, and our constitutional freedoms, he has no business running in CD3. He should be primaried and replaced with someone who doesn’t cave at the first whiff of a Washington cocktail reception.

In the end, the GORP Act isn’t about saving the land. It’s about saving face for a politician who forgot who he works for. And we’re not buying it.



Primary him. Replace him. Save Colorado.