Jeff Bridges Steps Up From CO House to Senate

LITTLETON CO – By Alex Burness for The Colorado Independent. Jeff Bridges will move from the Colorado House to the Senate, thanks to overwhelming support from a Democratic Party vacancy committee that selected him Saturday morning to replace the resigning Sen. Daniel Kagan.

On his way out, Kagan said the circumstances of his resignation have been widely misreported and misunderstood.

A standing-room-only crowd gathered inside a meeting room at the Englewood Civic Center to hear from Bridges and three others — Iman Jodeh, Angel Engel and Kyle Schlachter — who sought to fill Kagan’s seat in Senate District 3, which includes Littleton, Englewood and Cherry Hills Village. A group of 118, comprised mostly of precinct committee members and captains, handed Bridges 70 percent of the vote.

Bridges, the son of wealthy venture capitalist and former Colorado politician Rutt Bridges, told the crowd prior to the vote that he was best equipped among the four candidates to ensure that Senate — flipped from GOP to Democratic control in November — most effectively wields its new majority.

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Jeff Bridges, at left, won the overwhelming support of a vacancy committee tasked with filling the Colorado Senate seat of Daniel Kagan, who recently resigned. (Photo by Alex Burness)