Sen. Bob Rankin announced Thursday he intends to resign from the state Senate, effective the day after the 2023 legislative session begins.
Rankin, R-Carbondale, was first elected to the Colorado House in 2012 to serve House District 57, which covers northwestern Colorado, until Jan. 2019.
A vacancy committee for Senate District 8 appointed Rankin on Jan. 3, 2019 to finish out the term of Sen. Randy Baumgardner, R-Hot Sulphur Springs, who resigned after Democrats took control of the state Senate. Baumgardner faced sexual harassment accusations in the 2018 legislative session but survived an expulsion vote in the then-Republican controlled Senate.
See the full article by Marianne Goodland, December 1, 2022