For the most part the reign of the Tebedos seems to be over . After the Tebedos came the Nevilles , who are obsessed with guns so much one of them got banned from the state capitol for threatening a legislator . One of the Nevilles was defeated in this election , and an inlaw not only lost his election bid but is probably headed to jail . Also in the Colorado Springs area Competing with the Tebedos and the Nevilles for your ultrarightwing allegiance in the Colorado State Legislature , there ' s also been Douglas Bruce , Charlie Duke , and a guy named Klingenschmidt who is known as Dr . Chaps . At a time when we had an antigovernment legislative family like the Tebedos , Charlie Duke was known as the eccentric . Mary Anne Tebedo caucused and campaigned . She encouraged individual activism . She had one foot square in the reality of politics at all times . Charlie ? Charlie received messages from God telling him to run for state legislature . Then God would tell him to resign . Then God would tell him to come back . This happened multiple times each election cycle , and Duke never thought to wonder if maybe God was fucking with him . Sure , his spot should have been taken by a competent legislator but that wasn ' t going to happen . There was something about Duke that made you glad that he had a function . Like he was doing what he was supposed to be doing in the universe , providing a little perspective on reality . I will grant you that we set the bar low for decent behavior out of the Colorado Springs contingent . As long as they aren ' t threatening people Neville or assaulting the press on the floor of the legislature during morning prayer Bruce or trying to ban all foreign language instruction from state schools Schultheis , one can be glad for the islands of minimum functionality .