Dave Williams | |
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Chair of the Colorado Republican Party | |
Assumed office March 11, 2023 | |
Preceded by | Kristi Burton Brown |
Member of the ColoradoHouseofRepresentatives from the 15th district | |
In office January 11,2017 –January 9,2023 | |
Preceded by | Gordon Klingenschmitt |
Succeeded by | Scott Bottoms |
Personal details | |
Born | David Alan Williams [1] July 20,1986 Albuquerque,New Mexico,U.S. |
Political party | Republican |
Education | University of Colorado,Colorado Springs (BA) |
Website | Campaign website |
David Alan Williams (born July 20,1986) [2] is an American politician from Colorado Springs,Colorado who has served as Chair of the Colorado Republican Party since 2023,having previously represented Colorado House of Representatives District 15 from 2017 to 2023,which encompassed Colorado Springs and Cimarron Hills in El Paso County.
Williams is a candidate for Colorado's 5th congressional district in the 2024 elections,running to replace the retiring Doug Lamborn. [3] Williams is running with the endorsement of former President Donald Trump. Colorado media sources have called him a far-right politician. [4] [5] [6] [7]
Between 2008 and 2020 Williams was a vice president of logistics for MKW Global,a family business. [8] [9]
Williams was first elected to the State House in 2016 after winning 67.84% of the vote. [10]
Williams was the first Latino elected to House District 15. [11] His mother's maiden name is "Sanchez" and their family has roots going back to Mexico and Southern California. [12]
A supporter of Donald Trump,Williams has questioned the results of the 2020 presidential election and has promoted false claims of voter fraud. [13] [14] [15]
On December 7,2020,Williams and seven other Republicans requested to the Speaker of the House KC Becker that a committee be formed on "election integrity" to conduct an audit of the Dominion Voting Systems used in Colorado's 2020 elections in spite of no evidence of issues. The request was rejected,with Becker criticizing it as a promotion of "debunked conspiracy theories." [16]
In July 2021,Williams and Ron Hanks held a town hall at Colorado Springs in which both made multiple false claims of election fraud. Williams claimed that 5,600 dead people voted in the 2020 Colorado elections and that fraud played a role in Democrat John Hickenlooper's victory against Republican Cory Gardner. [14]
In December 2021,Williams announced his campaign bid aimed at challenging Rep. Doug Lamborn. [17] He attempted to get listed on the ballot as Dave "Let's Go Brandon" Williams,but this was rejected by Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold. [18] In the 2022 Republican primary election for Colorado's 5th congressional district,incumbent representative Doug Lamborn defeated Williams and two other Republican Party challengers. [19]
During the 2022 legislative session,Williams and the majority of Republicans rejected a resolution passed by the state house meant to urge congress to pass voting right legislation. Williams proposed two failed amendments to the resolution which included calling for an audit of the 2020 election,thanking the pro-Trump rioters that stormed the Capitol and decertifying the election results in favor for Trump. [20]
On March 11,2023,Williams was elected chair of the Colorado Republican Party for a two-year term. [21] Williams' position as chairman of the party has been controversial among several other Republicans. [22] [23] Under his leadership,the party has faced a significant loss of funding,and an increase in infighting. [24] [25] [26]
On January 8,2024,Williams announced that he was again running for Colorado's 5th congressional district in the 2024 elections,running for the seat of retiring congressman Doug Lamborn. [3] In March 2024,he was criticized by campaign opponents for MKW Global's importation of Chinese products during his tenure as vice president. [8]
On April 6,2024,Colorado Sun reporter Sandra Fish was disinvited to a state GOP assembly in Pueblo because a spokesman for Williams said he considered "her current reporting to be very unfair". Fish came to the event and presented her press credentials to gain entry,but was escorted out of the assembly by law enforcement who told her,"You have to be invited here. They don't want you here". Soon after,Williams called Fish a "fake journalist" and her newspaper "just an extension of the Democrat Party’s PR efforts". [27]
During the first year of his first term (2017),Williams introduced a bill (HB17-1134) titled the "Colorado Politician Accountability Act". The bill was designed to crack down on sanctuary cities by allowing public officials of sanctuary cities who had not sought to overturn the local sanctuary law to be sued by citizens if an illegal alien committed a crime,and also by making elected officials of sanctuary jurisdictions liable to penalties for "rendering assistance to an illegal alien". [28] [29] [30] The bill was defeated in the House but Williams and two Senate co-sponsors reintroduced it with few changes in 2018 as HB18-1178. [31] [32]
In early June 2024,during Pride Month,the Colorado GOP sent out a mass email signed by Dave Williams "titled 'God Hates Pride,' and reading in part “The month of June has arrived and,once again,the godless groomers in our society want to attack what is decent,holy,and righteous so they can ultimately harm our children.”The email message contained an image reading “God Hates Flags.”A concurrent Colorado Republican account post on X,formerly Twitter,said “Burn all the #pride flags this June.”Colorado Republican Congressional candidate Valdamar Archuleta “renounced the GOP’s endorsement as a result.” [33]
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