It shouldn’t have been a hard question for a politician and former lawmaker to answer: What is the relationship between the North American Free Trade Agreement and the influx of undocumented workers since its ratification?
A coalition of Colorado Latino leaders who mostly back Sen. Michael Bennet in the campaign for U.S. Senate blasted Andrew Romanoff for a photo-doctoring blunder that’s becoming a kind of “photoshop-gate” full-on scandal. The Democratic candidate’s campaign was sidetracked this…
DENVER– Democratic U.S. Senate candidate and former Colorado Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff told a crowd of about 30 students closely gathered in the Senate Room at the Auraria Higher Education Campus Wednesday that he was trying to lead by example with his so-far low-key campaign. Earlier in the day his staff announced Romanoff would not be taking Political Action Committee contributions.
The battle to undo one of Colorado’s most famous and controversial citizen-led constitutional amendments — 1992′s Taxpayer Bill of Rights — is underway and it’s gaining bipartisan support. Known as the “Savings Account for Education,” or SAFE, the ballot initiative would do away with tax refunds created under TABOR and instead reroute the money toward public education.
It is too soon to pronounce Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff a TV star. But it is not too soon to pronounce his leadership in televising his body’s legislative sessions visionary.
Getting politicians to talk about tax increases is like trying to turn cougars into house cats.
It just ain’t natural.
So as the costs for improvements in transportation, health care distribution and competitive universities grow by the billions,
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As the 110th Congress prepares to convene on Thursday, NPR’s Weekend Edition host Linda Wertheimer talked to Colorado Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff about the parallels of the Democratically-controlled U.S. House with the Colorado House in 2004.
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