Representative For The Colorado 49th House District
Lundberg unsuccessfully ran for the Colorado Senate in 1998, but was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2002, defeating Taylor Stephens in the Republican primary, but facing no general election opposition. Lundberg has since been thrice re-elected, having defeated Democrat Doug Frisbie and Libertarian Alberto Squassabia in 2004, Democrat Sue Radford in 2006, and Democrat James Ross in 2008.
As representative for the 49th House District, Lundberg sponsored 400 House bills, 13 Senate bills, and 10 resolutions, 16 of which passed. Notable bills sponsored by Lundberg include repeated efforts to adopt a long-term Revenue Shortfall Relief Fund, measures to support home-based educators, support for the Federal Marriage Amendment, cost recovery and alternatives for seniors to Medicaid, and Pine Beetle mitigation. Lundberg also opposed Referendum C, a measure adopted by Coloradans in 2005 to temporarily suspend the revenue limits in the Colorado Taxpayer Bill of Rights.
Lundberg was the sole representative in the Colorado House of Representatives to vote against a resolution censuring fellow Representative Douglas Bruce for his kicking of a photographer during opening prayer on the house floor. Lundberg said of his vote, “It would seem logical that since this was the first censure in the 131 year history of the state, it must indicate that Representative Bruce's action was by far the worst impropriety shown on the House floor…What Representative Bruce did was wrong, and demonstrated poor judgement. I would have supported a rebuke, but to use the word censure is to use the strongest word of condemnation that a legislative body can employ.”
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