President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Kamala Harris
(R) Donald Trump
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CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) V. Archuleta
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CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Marshall Dawson
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CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(R) Jeff Hurd
(D) Adam Frisch
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CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(D) Trisha Calvarese
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CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank
(D) River Gassen
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CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) John Fabbricatore
90%
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CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen
(R) Sergei Matveyuk
90%
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CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
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State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
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State House Majority
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REPUBLICANS
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June 04, 2013 02:00 PM UTC
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Come on, Hick. Sign this bill. Give the enviros something other than the finger this year.
Timing is everything. My money's on the finger . . .
Then it's . . .
¡Adios, muchachos — buenos días, Señor Romney!
It's just been announced the Governor intends to sign SB252 today! Now we can start addressing the 'real' wars in rural Colorado: extreme poverty (particularly childhood poverty), lack of jobs, the flight of our best and brightest from our communities, and the budget challenges of our many small-attendance education centers. With this new law we have before us the opportunity to build a new tax base, inspire entrepreneurship and re-invigorate a region rich in natural resources. Kudo's to the Governor for his decision to move us forward.
What did the Governor do on the Firefighter Collective Bargaining Bill?
Everyone is telling me he's going to sign it. I wonder why he's being cagey? This will restore him some love on the left.
Let me start with my ending: I do hope that Governor Hickenlooper will sign this legisltion. If he does, it will be the single most courageous act of leadership to be exerted within our Colorado rural electric community since 2004.
This morning, knowing a decision was close, Rep. Jerry Sonnenber [R-Sterling] issued a statement ramping up pressure on the Governor and noting that the bill would become law even without his signature by the end of the week:
"The time has come for the Governor to make the tough decision Coloradans expect him to make." Sonnenberg said, "Senate Bill 252 is a poison pill for rural Colorado that raised the cost of providing electricity to rural families and business owners by billions of dollars."
Let me start with my response: I like Jerry Sonnenberg. I think Jerry is a good man – and even though we no longer share a political party – I find him to be an honorable man. While we may often disagree about 'process', Jerry has always been open and accessible to me.
That said, there is no one in the ENTIRE legislatue that is better versed on the value of renewable energy than Rep. Sonnenberg. His home county, Logan County, has been a shining example of the economic miracle that renewable energy can bring to a region. Let me repeat, there is NO ONE on the ENTIRE Colorado legislative body that knows the value of renewable energy better than Jerry.'
Any one who follows ColoradoPols followed my diary last week about the 'Sunflower Conundrum' and SB252 knows the complications regarding Tri-State's efforts to build a coal plant in Kansas and the opportuities before us in Colorado. The choices being made by the majority in the Tri-State board room are regretable. And I do think it is time for an entirely new mind set in the Tri-State board is required to transition this entity into something both appropriate and empowering to 21st centure rural electrics.
I'll end where I started: Governor, while SB252 may be an imperfect bill, it will 'turn the ship'. It's time has come. And by affixing your signature to this document you will exert more leadership in a single stoke than we've seen from our collective Colorado rural electirc enterprises in a decade.
Sign it and don't look back. We're not going that way.
Thanks Michael.