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April 03, 2015 11:31 AM UTC

Get More Smarter on Friday (April 3)

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We’re almost Klingenschmitt-free today. Almost. It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example).

 

TOP OF MIND TODAY…

► The State Senate has approved a $26 billion budget for Colorado, despite complaints from Democrats that they were largely shut out of the process. The “Long Bill” now heads to the State House, where Republicans will inevitably complain about the process when they don’t have the majority.

A top official at the Veterans Administration has apologized (again) for the long list of problems in building a new hospital in Aurora. But Veterans Affairs Deputy Secretary Sloan Gibson thinks Rep. Mike Coffman’s suggestion to cancel all bonuses until the hospital is complete is a bad idea.

Get even more smarter after the jump…

 

SHOULD YOU FIND YOURSELF STANDING NEAR A WATER COOLER…

► President Obama has plenty of reason to smile today after a deal was reached on Iran’s nuclear program. As Politico reports:

Getting a deal on Iran’s nuclear program is more than a win for 2015, or a legacy achievement for the fourth quarter of his presidency. It’s a validation of Obama’s whole foreign policy philosophy — a theory of the world today, and America’s role in it, that he’s been mocked for since he was that first-term senator running for president, insisting that he’d already figured out a better way.

The Iran negotiations have “succeeded exactly as intended,” Obama said at the White House as soon as the broad terms were released. “It is a good deal.”

The Washington Post details the Iran deal and what it means going forward.

Snowpack levels in Colorado are at 69% of average, which could be an early sign of trouble ahead where water storage and availability is concerned.

► A package of bills intended to address issues of police oversight in Colorado have thus far divided many legislators.

► Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper may or may not support the idea of banning state-funded travel to Indiana in the wake of the Hoosier state’s disastrous attempt to make it easier for businesses in the state to discriminate based on religious beliefs. 9News reports that Hickenlooper is considering such a restriction, but John Frank at the Denver Post says otherwise.

The ridiculous “religious freedom” legislation that is causing so many problems for Indiana was also proposed in Colorado. As Fox 31 News reports, Colorado business leaders are firm in their opposition to such a law.

► Some of the recommendations that came from Gov. Hickenlooper’s oil and gas “task force” are slowly moving through the legislature.

 

OTHER LINKS YOU SHOULD CLICK

► Fort Collins City Council candidate Ray Martinez has received more than $20,000 from pro-fracking groups…which don’t seem to exist anymore?

► Check out this exhaustively-researched report by a Colorado Pols reader regarding potential financial improprieties facing Rep. Gordon “Dr. Chaps” Klingenschmitt.

Senate Republicans just can’t…stop…poking…hornet’s nest.

 

ICYMI

► Your Colorado Rockies remain undefeated…Opening Day is Monday.

► Here are the 10 men with the best chance at the Republican nomination for President. And they’re not all white dudes, either! Also, none of their names rhyme with “Mike Pence.”

► Um, that’s pretty much it for today. Have a nice weekend.

 

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