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July 09, 2014 12:49 PM UTC
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Uh, uh, uh, oh wait! BWB and team really meant "The governor and the legislature have 180 days from today …"
You know, like there's plenty of time next January when the General Assembly reconvenes to deal with this, you know, after the initiatives pass in November, or something like that…
Or, maybe you're right, BWB is an idiot
And just as important, how can Mr. Beauprez make the statement that a special session will "force ill-advised policies on the people of our state without debate, deliberation or discussion?" A special session is no different than a regular session of the legislature. A bill is introduced, it is debated and amended in committee, debated and amended on second reading and voted up or down on third reading. Then the process begins again in the second house.
Second, before a special session the governor issues a call calling the special session and stating what subjects the legislature may consider. However, the governor has no power whatsoever to dictate the language of a specific bill or to preclude the legislature from amending any bill that is introduced during a speical session.
Most important of all, a special session dealing with one issue will mean more debate, more deliberation and more discussion than any bill receives during the regular 120 session of the legislature because all 100 members will be focused on the one issue before the legislature. During the 2014 regular 120 day session, the legislature consider a total of 621 bills which means the attention of each legislator was focused on the bills they introduced or ones directly impacting their district. During the regular session, the attention of the 100 members is fragmented and certainly isn't focused on one issue. During a special session, the opposite is true. All 100 members are focused on the one or two bills introduced and therefore there is far more detailed attention and consideration given to bills during a special session. Mr. Beauprez doesn't know what he's talking about.
And Obama once said there were 57 states. This is much ado about nothing
57 States – an obviously exhausted Obama misspeaks at a campaign event.
180 Days – a written statment released by the campaign that was still released with a major error regardless of the probability that it was seen by several people before being sent off. And can't just be written off as a typo – 8 is a long way from 2 on the keyboard.
Yep, totally the same.
I suspect Obama began using teleprompters almost exclusively after the 57-state faux pas.
Never got that dig, all presidents use them
Of course, there are not 57 states. But there are 57 places to win delegates to try and win the D nomination. He should not have said states when including DC and Puerto Rico and the other places to win D delegates.
the only way to get to 180 days is to have a special session. But your point is right on.
I'm sure when you're on the campaign trail, it FEELS like there are 57 states…
Gee Elliot. Surprised to see you jumping to the defense of a candidate who panders to the people who claim your wife just married you for the green card and your kid is an anchor baby. Think he'll make the trains on time or something?
That would be" run on time".
Would you say it is more likely that Obama knows that we don't have 57 states, or that Bobs staff knows that the Colorado legislative session isn't 180 days….
Hmmmm….
In regards to BWB's campaign staff … it's hard to get good help these days, especially on a temporary basis. Probably much of the campaign staff is made up of connected college kids on summer break.
Especially if you're campaign has had to loan itself more money than it could raise from donors. I doubt BWB's campaign will catch Hick's available cash, particularly since this is turning out to be 2006 redux.
Has Bob had to make another stop at the bank since the primary? (I can't believe his wife is letting him piss away their money on his vanity exercise)
Guess we'll have to wait for the next funding report to find out. I'm sure BWB has been putting the strong arm on the usual GOP suspects to give big, now that he's the "mainstream Republican" candidate.
Bet there's a lot of holding of noses while donors write those extortion checks.
Yeah, if only Obama had let that depression fester that Bush and Cheney worked so hard create. Then it would be so much easier for BWB to find staff at least as competent as he's been . . .
doubt his wife has any say on how money is spent unless she has a penis