Posted on 09/18/2018 9:56:35 AM PDT by re_tail20
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has created a leadership political action committee, a sign he is interested in exploring a 2020 presidential run and raising funds to pay for travel and other campaign-like expenses such as polling.
The two-term Democrat will be out of office in January due to term limits. He has long been on media lists of potential presidential contenders, behind politicians with more national recognition such as Sens. Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders, as well as former vice president Joe Biden.
Hickenlooper has so far demurred or sidestepped questions about whether he will run. In August he said he was talking with friends about the idea.
His eight years as governor developed a resume of policy decisions and outcomes upsetting both liberals and conservatives.
As a former geologist for a petroleum company, Hickenlooper was an ally of oil and gas as the fracking boom helped hold Colorado's economy steadier than the rest of the nation through the great recession, but the stance gave heartburn to environmental groups and the far left of the Democratic base.
He signed new gun restrictions into law in 2013, including a 15-round limit on all new sales of gun magazines sold in the state. In the wake of that decision, a manufacturer of gun magazines and accessories moved their production out of state to Wyoming and Texas.
Hickenlooper, 66, has twice said on the record that young, undocumented immigrants he encountered told him they cared little about a so-called "pathway to citizenship" and instead were primarily concerned with establishing some legal framework which would "get people out of living in the shadows."
The first time he made those remarks in 2014, just after he had won reelection, earned him a quick rebuke from the Latino community.
The Colorado Latino Forum issued...
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The legalization of marijuana in Colorado and the OK for anyone to defecate or urinate on the Denver streets has turned Colorado into a shithole.
I won’t even DRIVE thru Colorado whenever I go east.
By the time the Democrat debates start late next year, this scene is very possible:
A bus pulls up to an area and the guard at the gate says, “I’ll need to see your tickets before we can let you in to take your seats”
The bus driver will answer in a low whisper, “They’re not audience members, they’re the Democrats they have their seats on the stage.”
Guard, “All 48 of them?”
Bus driver, “Yeah all of them?”
President Hickenlooper - sounds like a character from a Marx Brothers movie - I don’t think so.....
Hillary 2020!
Opposing the Hickenlooper amendment was another action that makes laughable the allegation John F. Kennedy was a conservative.
The Hickenlooper amendment would have banned foreign aid to any country that stole US property (ie Cuba seizing sugar plantations). A pretty “duh” move, opposed by liberal Kennedy cause it would “mess up diplomacy”.
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