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Pro-business in a dismal economy helps, but Hickenlooper faces budget-slashing nightmare
By Allen Best |
12.20.10 | 6:17 am
For somebody often awkward in his public speeches, prone to stutter-stepping his way through sentences, Governor-elect John Hickenlooper has superb skills as a salesman. Maybe it goes back to his days as a barkeep in Denver’s LoDo, bantering for a moment before moving onto the next table. Now he’ll be using those same skills as a street-savvy, business-friendly Democrat who will also become the most public face as state government faces the need to quickly cut $1.1 billion from the state budget.
Let’s review. What happened besides Rep. Douglas Bruce leveling 
