# Colorado Governor **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 7, 2018, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-governor/824119 "2018-11-07T06:33:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-governor/824119/1 "2018-11-07T06:33:31Z")
I’ve got to say kudos to both sides of the gubernatorial campaigns in Colorado. They kept it civil and based upon the issues. I had no idea that Polis was gay until after the results came in announcing him the first openly gay governor. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-governor/824119/2 "2018-11-07T14:03:58Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > I’ve got to say kudos to both sides of the gubernatorial campaigns in Colorado. They kept it civil and based upon the issues. I had no idea that Polis was gay until after the results came in announcing him the first openly gay governor. Doesn’t OR Gov. Kate Brown count? While she’s married to a man, she was openly bi when she got elected to a term of her own two years ago. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-governor/824119/3 "2018-11-07T14:09:50Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Doesn’t OR Gov. Kate Brown count? While she’s married to a man, she was openly bi when she got elected to a term of her own two years ago. Gay is not Bi. Bi is not Gay. They’re third on the list: LGB… She can claim the title of first openly Bi or first openly non-straight governor. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-governor/824119/4 "2018-11-07T14:25:01Z")
Colorado got a lot of it right this time around, I think. I especially liked the leap of faith with picking an academic for attorney general in lieu of [del]a fixture of the old, medieval, corrupt criminal “justice” apparatus[/del] an experienced prosecutor. I’m a little worried that the house/senate/governor are all Blue now, because the conservatives around here aren’t all that offensive and I’d like for them to feel represented. But really conservatives need to shed the tainted Republican brand before they can be taken seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-governor/824119/5 "2018-11-07T14:29:13Z")
NJ had a gay governor but of course nobody knew it until he quit. Houston had an openly gay mayor . ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-governor/824119/6 "2018-11-07T17:35:16Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > NJ had a gay governor but of course nobody knew it until he quit. Houston had an openly gay mayor . Chris Christie? ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-governor/824119/7 "2018-11-07T17:40:16Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > Chris Christie? It was Jim McGreevey in NJ > **[Jim McGreevey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_McGreevey)** > > James Edward McGreevey (born August 6, 1957) is an American politician who served as the 52nd governor of New Jersey from 2002 until his resignation in 2004. > McGreevey served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1990 to 1992, as the 19th mayor of Woodbridge Township from 1991 to 2002, and in the New Jersey Senate from 1994 to 1998. He was the Democratic nominee for Governor of New Jersey in 1997, but was narrowly defeated by Republican incumbent Christine Todd Whitman. He ran for governor a... to be technically correct he was openly gay in office for 3 months before his resignation was final .