The Colorado GOP chairman said longtime journalist Sandra Fish’s reporting was “very unfair,” so he had her removed from a party assembly Saturday.
Colorado Sun reporter Sandra Fish, left, turns over media credentials to a Pueblo County sheriff's deputy and an arena security staffer on Saturday. As a veteran journalist in Colorado, it wasn’t Sandra Fish’s first time reporting on the state GOP assembly. But it was her first time getting kicked out.
A sheriff’s deputy escorted the longtime reporter out, drawing backlash from lawmakers from both sides of the aisle and fellow journalists who criticized the move as an affront to democracy. Fish, 66, has been a reporter since 1982; she has covered Colorado’s Democratic and Republican parties for the past two decades. Some of her recent reportinghow the Colorado GOP, under Williams’s leadership, paid for mailers that criticized one of Williams’s congressional primary opponents and a newspaper in Colorado Springs.
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