Posted on 05/27/2007 6:36:24 AM PDT by george76
A bill that changes the information in School Accountability Reports, which Gov. Bill Ritter signed last week after it landed on his desk, was new to Ritter but familiar to the desk.
Democrats, taking advantage of having one of their own in the governor’s office for the first time in eight years, repassed 33 bills this year that once were vetoed by former Republican Gov. Bill Owens.
Ritter, the first-year Democratic governor, has signed 16 so far, including the aforementioned House Bill 1345.
Some are exact replicas of deceased forebears, while others have been changed. But the fact they are coming back to life — or rising like zombies from the dead, depending on one’s viewpoint — is a concerted effort on the part of Democrats, said House Speaker Andrew Romanoff.
“It’s not an attempt to oneup Bill Owens. It’s just a recognition that the administration has changed, and they might be more sympathetic to our priorities,” ...
Working with a Democratic Legislature during his last two years in office, Owens vetoed 91 bills. His reasons varied, but he wrote several times he felt the legislation was overly regulatory or would invite increased litigation.
Ritter stopped short of saying there was a pointed effort to undo Owens’ vetoes...”
Two previously vetoed measures, one which creates a council to study state education and the other which enrolls Colorado in a multistate drug-purchasing pool, were signed into law by executive order, as Ritter said no more debate was necessary.
The Legislature has passed 33 bills this year that were vetoed in the past two years by former Gov. Bill Owens. Nine among them stand out because they had been vetoed twice...
(Excerpt) Read more at gazette.com ...
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Senate Bill 98:
Allows county sales tax rates to exceed state caps if voters approve new open-space and parks tax.
Signed.
A bunch of California socialists fleeing their high-tax “utopia” and settling in your state has consequences too.
If Governor Owens wrote a book about vetos and how to use them, I would chip in to buy a copy and send it to President Bush.
“Elections have consequences...”
Wouldn’t be much point in having them if they didn’t.
Just as they will in 08 if we splinter.
Hopefully we will learn these lessons and not splinter again.
The opposite of ‘big tent’ is a much smaller tent, more of a sno-cone. You know, ‘sno homos in here, ‘sno libertarians in here, ‘sno atheists in here, ‘sno pro-choicers in here. In other words a party of exclusion, perpetually out of power.
Hopefully the new Colorado Republican Chairman Dick Wadhams can do a good job of running some of the tighter campaigns.
We also need to waste less money and energy on primaries and focus on general elections better.
Pete Coors made many rookie mistakes that we should not repeat.
You mean it isn’t useful to petulantly stomp around and call anyone whose opinion deviates even a bit from yours a ‘socialist?’
I hope CO Conservatives can channel their angry at the phony “Prolife” Ritter into constructive endevours. Such as Bill Schaeffer’s Senate campaign.
Former Rep. Bob Schaffer quietly announced his candidacy last week and all indications are that he will have the Republican primary field to himself. Democrats quickly sought to portray Schaffer as a conservative extremist, citing as evidence some of the positions he advocated during his three terms in Congress in the late 1990s
. There’s no question that Schaffer is more conservative than the average Colorado voter, but he also built up a grassroots following based on the “straight-shooter” reputation he maintained during his tenure in the House and before that in the state legislature.
In our mind, Schaffer’s biggest problem is fundraising. When he ran in the GOP Senate primary in 2006, he was never able to compete financially with beer magnate Pete Coors in the primary and wound up losing badly. Assuming the party is lined up behind him this time, Schaffer may benefit from a slew of national GOP money. Rep. Mark Udall will be the Democratic nominee. Expect Republicans — Dick Wadhams we are looking at you — to try and paint him as a “Boulder liberal” in the months to come.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2007/05/the_line_rays_of_hope_for_sena.html
With Colorado ‘s next Senator making his candidacy official for the 3rd time now, way to earn that press Bob, the media is sure to start talking about Mark Udall’s warchest and Schaffer’s lack there of. While some will ask how Schaffer can compete when he is already a million down, the question people should be asking is what has Mark Udall been doing the past eight years.
A million in the bank is great in any race, but it’s slightly puzzling that it is not more...
http://coloradoconservativeproject.blogspot.com/2007/05/mark-udalls-warchest.html
Political positions have consequences...
Yes I did. Sorry. Thanks for the catch.
Bill Ritter is still lurching hard left.
Did you note that Bob Schaffer quietly announced his candidacy last week ?
I missed it.
ps : the ‘catch’ was on the other guy.
Bob Schaffer will bring back the Republican ideals of lower taxes and less government by first addressing the party base and afterwards reaching out to independent voters. I expect his campaign will be based on what he stands for, as opposed to what he’s against, and he will do what he says he will do based on past, demonstrated experience that voters can see for themselves.
By all accounts I’ve seen, Democrat Mark Udall is a nice guy but he’s going to be hard pressed to reign in the state Democrat attack machine that has been effective in the past.
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