“He always kept people first.” Colorado House Minority Leader Hugh McKean was honored in a lying-in-state ceremony on Thursday.
Polis, a Democrat, said McKean was always willing to talk through any issue with him.
The minority leader had been tasked in 2020 with leading a fractured Republican caucus in a General Assembly with a Democratic stronghold. Prior to his time at the Capitol, McKean was elected to the Loveland City Council in 2009 and served two terms. He worked as an independent residential contractor and was a reservist with the Coast Guard Auxiliary.
Jody Shadduck-McNally, a county commissioner and Democrat who lost the HD 51 race to McKean in 2016, told The Denver Post that she may not have always agreed with McKean politically, but he “shared a deep love of community for our area and Larimer County.” “At the end, he said, ‘I fiercely disagree with you. I’m going to fight you on this issue. But I’m going to do it respectfully,'” Garnett said. “I think this is a really important point to remember. He debated that bill fiercely in the well . He represented his own views, he represented his constituents, he represented his party. But he did it the right way.”
“You know, Hugh had a real talent for being inappropriate always at the appropriate time,” Lynch joked. “That man could break the tension in any room, any tension. He would bring us all back to being human, altering us back to the point that we all come to this building for, to do something good.”
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