Colorado’s House Republicans elected a freshman lawmaker from Colorado Springs to become their new minority leader over the weekend, making him the fourth to hold the post in the past three years.

Rep. Jarvis Caldwell was elected on Saturday with 12 votes, beating out two more right-wing members — Reps. Ken DeGraaf and Larry Don Suckla — who received four votes apiece. Caldwell succeeds former Rep. Rose Pugliese, who’d served as minority leader for roughly 18 months before she resigned last week after a public showdown with her Democratic counterpart.

Caldwell had served as the caucus’s communications director before leaving after the 2023 session to work for a charter schools group. He returned to the House to represent District 20 after winning election in November.

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