Kathleen Conti

In 2010 Kathleen Conti was elected to the 68th General Assembly for House District 38 after having won 52% of the vote thereby defeating incumbent centrist Democrat Joe Rice.^[5]

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After Republican victories in 2010 brought in a Republican majority, Conti was appointed as a member of the House Local Government Committee and House Finance Committee.

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In the 2012 General Election, Representative Conti faced Democratic challenger Donovan O'Dell. Conti was elected by a margin of 58% to 39%.^[6][7]

Kathleen Conti has been characterized as a conservative Republican.^[8]

Kathleen supports gay conversion therapy for LGBTQ youth in Colorado^[9] and does not believe that gay or lesbian couples should be entitled to marriage or civil union.^[10]

In 2010, Kathleen Conti wrote, "Colorado with it's [sic] vast open spaces and many wooded areas, makes a friendly environment for any type of Camp, even Terrorist Training camps." And explained that, "Of the 18 terrorist training camps in the United States Colorado is believed to have as many as 3."^[11] Colorado Bureau of Investigation have not found evidence that "terrorist Training Camps" exist in Colorado.^[12]

In July 2020, Kathleen Conti left a voicemail with the Colorado Tri-County Health Department Archived 2020-10-14 at the Wayback Machine requesting that the department not mandate mask usage during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.^[13] When a journalist produced a recording of Conti's voicemail, she claimed she did not recall leaving the demand with the health department. The health department proceeded with a mask mandate in order to limit disease transmission.