Colorado Politics: Likening the recent record-setting warm temperatures to hot political rhetoric, Colorado Sen. Mike Weissman, D-Aurora, pleaded for an end to death threats and other hate speech directed at lawmakers of both parties.

“The increasingly tragic reality of our politics, however, like the increasingly tragic reality of our climate, is one of combustibility,” Weissman said from the well of the Senate Monday.

He spoke about the record warm temperatures throughout the state, and the risk of wildfires from those dry conditions, and that the heat from the weather is not the only heat lawmakers are dealing with.

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