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In case you missed it… The Rocky Mountain News took a closer look at House Minority Leader Joe Stengel’s excessive billing of work hours outside of the legislative session and found that Stengel’s $24,000 bill is completely above and beyond any previous bill since 2000. Democrat Gary Lindstrom is the only other donkey opposing Bill […]

Editor’s Note: Our old pal Average Voter Guy (AVG) is back, by popular demand, to give a non-partisan, non-political analysis of a few of this week’s news items. Hopefully we’ll be able to bring AVG back more than just once every few months. For more background on AVG, CLICK HERE. We asked AVG to provide […]

You’ve got to give House Minority Leader Joe Stengel this: He’ll defend his right to be wrong to the death. While Stengel didn’t technically break the law in billing taxpayers for working virtually every day last year, there’s a big difference between what you can do and what you should do. From the Rocky Mountain […]

Every legislative session it seems like a new legislator emerges more on the public consciousness. Last year it was Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff and Rep. Joe Stengel, among others. This year one of the early names to surface again and again is that of Rep. Debbie Benefield. Benefield is one of the leaders […]

The Rocky Mountain News has an interesting look at four young Republican lawmakers who may be the future of the state GOP: Reps. Josh Penry, Rob Witwer, Cory Gardner and Matt Knoedler. …[Penry] is among a handful of first-term lawmakers who have Republican Party leaders salivating. They see a deep bench to tap over the […]

The Rocky Mountain News has a good story today on the seats that Republicans are targeting in 2006 in an effort to win back the state legislature: How’s this for fuzzy math: Democrats have a five-seat edge in the state House of Representatives and only a one-seat majority in the Senate, but Republicans think it […]