Q&A With Lynn Bartels

Lynn Bartels, political and legislative reporter from the Rocky Mountain News, will join us today (Tuesday) to answer your questions in our fifth Q&A. She’ll be logging on in between committee hearings and other votes at the State Capitol, so her responses will come as quickly as she can get to them.

*Note: If you want to discuss something Ms. Bartels has said below, please do so in the Tuesday Open Thread. This thread is reserved for questions to make it easier for Ms. Bartels to skim through and answer as many questions as she can get to.

Here’s her bio, in her own words:

I moved to Colorado from New Mexico in 1993. A co-worker at the Rocky once asked me how I stood living in a place without professional sports. I said, “Are you kidding? We had the New Mexico Legislature!” Politics is a big deal in New Mexico. It isn’t in Colorado, in my opinion.

I first covered cops at the Rocky so I only vaguely paid attention to politics. The political scene seemed so bland. And the names! Blickensderfer. Meiklejohn. Mutzebaugh. Panky. Pfiffner. Perlmutter. Tebedo.

The first time I paid any attention to politics was in 1996, because I had friends who supported Gene Nichol, who lost the Democratic Senate primary, and Tim Sandos, who lost the Democratic 1st CD primary; then came 1998 and the governor’s race. I was rooting for GOP Treasurer Bill Owens because by that time I was covering the Regional Transportation District. Owens was a great source and I found him really easy to work with. At the same time, a good friend worked on Democrat Gail Schoettler’s gubernatorial campaign. And so, while I didn’t cover politics, there was a lot of talk about it in my circle.

Then came 2000. I was assigned to cover the state House and teamed up with legend John Sanko, a fixture at the Capitol for decades, who covered the Senate. I discovered Colorado politics weren’t so boring after all – although I think the public still thinks so.

Because of the parking situation at the time, I had to be at the Capitol by 7 a.m. to get a space – even on Monday when the session didn’t start until 10 a.m. I spent a lot of that time with people who shared war stories, and I got to know a good deal about Colorado politics in a short period of time.

I think that might be why some people think I’ve covered Colorado politics for a while. Every now and then someone will introduce me and say that I’ve covered politics for years, even decades, when the reality is I got my political start at the Rocky in 2000.

Before we move on to the questions, just another friendly reminder:

Please be respectful. Ms. Bartels does not have to take time out of an entire day to do this, and we appreciate her making the effort to do so. Please be respectful in your questions and comments so that we may continue to have great guests here for Q&As.

Feel free to ask any question you may like, but we will remove any unnecessarily disrespectful comments or questions. You can get your point across and be a civil person at the same time.

Please also understand that there are some questions that Ms. Bartels may not be ethically allowed to answer. Please don’t ask her who she would like to see win the governor’s race, because ethically she cannot answer that question. Instead, ask her who she thinks has the best chance to win the governor’s race – that she can answer.

Okay, enough of that. Now…on to the questions! As always, answers appear entirely in the subject's own words. The only thing we change is to add a missing period now and then.

1. From your perspective, what happened in Colorado’s elections in 2004 and why did the results turn out the way they did?

Cliché alert! I hate to use this phrase, but I think it really took the perfect storm. I liken it to a safe combination where you have all these clicks you have to hit before the door swings open.

You had Scott McInnis announcing his resignation in the 3^rd Congressional District. Then came Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell’s shocker in March 2004 that he wouldn’t seek re-election. Add in an unpopular president and an unpopular war that stirred up Americans who normally don’t vote.

Mix in some savvy Democrats and some lazy, overconfident Republicans (“The Senate may go back and forth but we’ll never lose the House!”) Don’t forget a distracted Republican governor who upset members of his own party by switching his endorsement of Bob Schaffer to Pete Coors. And two popular Salazar brothers on the tickets helped, too.

And that was just the start.

There were ballot initiatives that Democrats supported, including FasTracks and the cigarette tax hike. And while all elections have their share of bad candidates, consider some of the Republican races. In a Greeley House race, you had Pam Groeger, whose husband had been caught in yard-sign shenanigans. At the GOP convention in New York City, I was on a boat with state party chairman Ted Halaby en route to Ellis Island when he was on his cell phone saying to the Weld County GOP chair, “If she doesn’t step down, we will lose this seat. You understand that, right? This seat will go Democratic.”

She wouldn’t step down. The seat went Democratic.

And in Grand Junction, Shari Bjorkland announced at the Club 20 debate that she would put her conservative ideology ahead of Western Slope interests. Even if she hadn’t made that blunder, I’m not sure she would have won because of what happened in 2002. She challenged the popular incumbent, Republican Gayle Berry, who was trashed during the primary. I‘m guessing many of Gayle’s supporters went with Democrat Bernie Buescher, who won.

With that said, I was at the legislature two days after the election when they were selecting leaders, and I remember Democrats saying how it important it was not to retaliate against the Republicans who had been so unfair and vicious to them, and how taking the high road and passing good bills would help them keep the majority.

And I remember thinking, “Are you out of your effing minds? You could do everything right - you could be the Rock Star Legislature - and you still could lose the majority because they have the registration numbers.”

2. What campaign or campaigns impressed you the most in 2004 and why?

It’s funny. I told the Rocky’s Jim Tankersley about your question and we had totally different answers. In my opinion, House and Senate Dems get the top award.

Let’s first talk about the Alices: Rep. Alice Madden, D-Boulder, and Mary Alice Mandarich, who works for the Senate Democrats. They and their crews did a great job of picking swing districts and working those areas. And to think that Democratic Sen. Joan Fitz-Gerald helped orchestrate this while her mother and her brother were dying is even more impressive.

I am so over Republicans crying about those four rich Democrats who spent all that money to win the races. As that masterful politician Doug Dean used to say when he ran the House with a sense of humor and an iron fist, “Rules are made to be used to your advantage. It’s not my fault if the other party doesn’t know the rules.”

Let’s talk about the rich Republicans. Where were they? Squandering money.

You might recall that the Alex Cranbergs and Steve Shucks of the world spent money in three primary races: trying to beat GOP Rep. Mark Cloer in Colorado Springs, and Democratic Reps. Ann Ragsdale in Westminster and Mike Cerbo in Denver. Yes, you read that right. They were spending money in Democratic primaries. The issue was charter schools, and they lost all three races.

The charter school folks also targeted a GOP incumbent, Rep. Ramey Johnson, in the general election. She lost in a squeaker to Democrat Gwyn Green.

The money spent on these races might have helped a Republican get elected in the Senate, which the GOP lost by one seat.

I also give top honors to John Marshall, the campaign manager for GOP Greg Walcher in the 3^rd CD. I know, I know, Greg lost, but hear me out. I know that the governor’s lobbyist, Chris Castilian, is going to tease me over this, saying I picked John because he’s tall, dark and handsome. Hey, it doesn’t hurt.

But anyhow, during the GOP primary, candidate Gregg Rippy used to joke that his bumper sticker was going to be, “Walcher wins, Salazar wins.” There’s a lot of truth to that. As the head of the Department of Natural Resources, Walcher made an enemies list. And Referendum A didn’t help.

But I think Marshall ran such a good campaign, really tightening it up in the end, that if the election had been one week later, things might have turned out differently. I can just hear Jim Merlino and Jeff Bridges screaming over that. Calm down. I said might.

Other kudos: FasTracks and the Marilyn Musgrave ads.

As for Tankersley, he praised John Kerry’s campaign, which only fell short by 4 percentage points. That truly is amazing. And he thought U.S. Rep. Bob Beauprez in the 7^th ran a great campaign. I believe the Columbine grand jury report is what hurt Democrat Dave Thomas.

Both Tank and I agreed that Ken Salazar’s campaign made a brilliant tactical move: Realizing their Senate candidate wasn’t the best at speaking in groups – the memory of his public speaking still gives me the shivers -- they made him available 24-7 for one-on-ones, where Salazar shone.

3. Why do you think the local television stations do so little coverage with politics and the legislature? Is it the public who says they don’t care, or is it the news stations that say the public doesn’t care?

I got rid of cable because I couldn’t stop watching reruns of Law & Order and MTV’s Jackass, so now my TV is so fuzzy I can barely watch the news. So I’m not sure if the stations lately have the scant coverage you are talking about.

I think 9 News’ Adam Schrager is a fabulous political reporter and leads the stations in quality and quantity of political news. As I said before, I moved here from a political state and I don’t recall there being tons more coverage there.

What’s always amazed me is newspapers write the stories that generate the nasty ads that make TV stations millions during elections.

4. The media has long been accused of having a liberal bias. Do you think that was ever a fair statement, and if so, is it still true today? Do you think media coverage in Colorado leans one way or the other?

Sigh.

The question always drives me nuts. First of all let me say this: If a story skewers a Democrat, Republicans have no problem quoting it as gospel and using it in ads. If it casts a Republican in a bad light, then it’s dismissed as more garbage from the liberal media.

When I covered the New Mexico Legislature, the GOP lawmakers called the New Mexico Education Association the Never Enough Association. It made me laugh. I think there was a sentiment that if only the Republicans were in charge, things in New Mexico would improve.

When I got to Colorado with its GOP-controlled legislature, I remember calling back to a GOP politico there and saying, “It’s a myth! No matter who’s in charge, there are problems!”

When you talk about coverage “leaning one way or another,” in my case I really believe it has little to do with party and a lot to do with smart campaigns. Take Republican Rick O’Donnell’s 7^th CD effort in 2002. His campaign manager, Matt Mayer, was good at getting information the press needed. That paid off in coverage. It was the same thing with the Democrats in 2004 in their legislative campaigns.

I don’t think Tom Strickland’s folks were with my Senate coverage in 2002, and in hindsight there were areas I wasn’t happy about either. But it had nothing to do with Tom being a Democrat.

5. What role do you see blogs taking in the 2006 election in Colorado? What do you think of the evolution of blogging as a way for people to get specific information? How have blogs changed your job working for a daily newspaper?

It’s not just blogs, it’s the Internet as a whole.

Politicians now communicate with their constituents through e-mail newsletters. Press secretaries communicate with the media the same way.

In the state Senate, the GOP sends out a radio report that I’m sure is widely picked up in rural communities and run verbatim. I had to laugh the other day. One of the reports was about Republican Lew Entz of Hooper getting his landlord-tenant bill passed. The irony is not a single other Republican in the Senate voted for the bill, but of course the e-mail recipients didn’t know that.

I think blogs will play a big role in 2006. A part of that worries me and I’ll explain why:

Last year, a Colorado blog blasted the Rocky for failing to report the controversy surrounding the mix-up over Pete Coors’ photo in the New York Times, and the quip from his campaign spokeswoman. What happened is the NYT mistakenly used his mug shot in a brief about a KKK member convicted of killing a sharecropper.

“It cold have been worse,” joked Coors’ spokeswoman, Cinamon Watson. “Pete could have been identified as John Kerry.”

Of course, the Political Correctness Police went nuts and her comment went national. That story and her comment were broken by yours truly. And for a blog to report we had ignored the story when we were the newspaper responsible for the story was insane.

I wrote the blog and they posted my response, but they kept their report up. So, if you logged on to the blog, you read their inaccurate posting, then eventually got to my response. And in their response to my posting, they insinuated it was somehow the Rocky’s fault they couldn’t find our stories on line.

When I have bitched about this, politicians have laughed and said, “Welcome to our world.”

That said, I regularly read your blog. I nearly wet myself when you described Troy Eid as the “humor rumor.”

I get asked all the time if I am Alva (like I have the time). I have no idea who you are but my sense is you’re more Democratic than Republican. I think you have more insight on Democratic politics.

When you reported that GOP Congressman Joel Hefley was retiring I know some reporters were miffed about having to report on some anonymous gossip – which Hefley maintained was off base.

I think your blog is driving so much early coverage of the gubernatorial race. Blogs are here to stay.

6. If you had to guess – and that’s what we’re asking - what’s next for Bill Owens?

(Que up the soundtrack) Money, money, money, money, MONEY! I vote for the private sector, but who knows? Owens has the saavy, smarts and personality to do whatever he wants.

7. What issues do you think could define the 2006 campaign season?

The usual suspects: jobs, growth, the economy, the environment. A lot of it depends on the candidate. If it’s Democrat Bill Ritter, he’s going to be asked about police shootings. And a lot of it is unpredictable. Who would have known that the issue in the 1996 Senate race was the phrase “lawyer lobbyist?”

8. There’s been a lot of talk about the Democrats’ chaotic reorganization and the Republicans relatively smooth transition (even though some members went a little bonkers last week on the gay marriage issue). Do you think any of that will matter in 2006?

I have no idea what you’re asking here.

9. What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever seen while covering politics?

• Gov. Bill Owens’ news conference the day after the 2004 election where he got his ass kicked, talking about how he didn’t get his ass kicked.
• A recent news conference at the legislature on the dangers of same-sex marriage. Rep. Keith King – who would have speaker if the GOP had won the House – gave a rambling discourse on school funding and prisons that confused even his own party. And Rep. Jim Welker feared it could lead to people marrying their horses or dogs. And I thought “My Friend Flicka” was a family show.

10. Who did you vote for in our moustache poll and why?

I was the write-in vote for Rocky columnist Mike Littwin.

11. And for the grand finale….how do you think the coverage of politics differs from the News to the Post?

Where to start? I thought about reprinting some of those e-mails I’ve saved over the years from Post reporters praising our work, but I thought I’d spare them from getting chewed out – or worse!

Actually, it depends on the election, the race, and the story.

Let’s go back to the 1998 governor’s race. I thought the Post’s Mark Obmascik did a great job. In a state where people proudly display “Native” bumper stickers, he pointed out that every single candidate was born somewhere else. But his home run was the story about Bill Owens being, shall we say, less than candid about his draft status during the Vietnam War. I believe that story is one reason Owens, who was supposed to comfortably become the first Republican governor in 24 years, sat in his hotel room election night, chewing his nails, looking at the see-saw lead and wondering what the hell happened.

After Owens got elected, I think the Rocky’s John Sanko broke one of the biggest political stories: the governor’s ongoing feud with his lieutenant governor over expenses and other issues. That story is one reason lawmakers changed the law so that gubernatorial candidates starting in 2002 picked their own running mates.

Fast forward to 2002.That was the summer “all of Colorado was burning” and there was little political coverage in June, much to the chagrin of the candidates in the new 7^th Congressional District. The Rocky finally got back up in July. The Post never did, with the exception of Susan Greene covering the rematch between Wayne Allard and Tom Strickland.

All the campaign managers and all the candidates were abuzz: What is going on at the Post. They’re not covering politics. On Peter Boyle’s TV show one night, Sue O’Brien, the editorial page editor of the Post, told me, “You guys are doing a magnificent job on this election. I’m not sure what’s happening at our place.”

The Stump had debuted that summer and it was an enormous hit. The Stump is a political items column that is sometimes edgy, sometimes nostalgic, lots of times just plain fun.

Campaign managers vied like mad to get stuff in there. I remember Mark Eddy, spokesman for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rollie Heath, telling me Rollie wouldn’t be campaigning the next day because it was his and Josie’s wedding anniversary.

“I need their wedding picture,” I said.

Mark hustled and the next day we had ran the shot. Everybody talked about how Rollie and Josie still looked the same.

I think overall the Rocky has more fun with political coverage, and it’s not just the Stump or Roll Call, the political items column when the legislature is in session. I remember the Post’s debate between Allard and Strickland. Allard didn’t know the price of a stamp; Strickland didn’t know how much a gallon of gas cost. Great stuff.

But amazingly, the next day, the Post buried that in the last paragraph of their debate story. The Rocky led with it, including an eye-grabbing box containing the quiz questions. A friend of mine told me that at the news meeting that day at the Post, Editor Greg Moore opened by saying, “I think the News had more fun with our story than we did.”

The Rocky’s Michele Ames correctly predicted that the story of the 2002 election would be provisional ballots. She was right. The results of the 7^th CD weren’t known until December, when all the provisionals had been counted.

And Mike Littwin had some amazing columns, including his piece on GOP strategist extraordinaire, Dick Wadhams. “Who else can say lawyer-lobbyist 50 times an hour and, each time, make it sound exactly like murderer-rapist,” Littwin wrote. “For that matter, who else would try to turn Wayne Allard into John Fielder.”

The best is when I heard Karen Middleton, a candidate for regent in the 7^th CD, say she had always been a Post reader but started taking the Rocky. “You have to if you’re interested in politics,” she said.

Next up: Denver mayoral race in 2003.

The Post’s William Porter wrote the best political profiles. Go back and read the one on former state Dem party chairman Phil Perington. It’s classic. And the Post’s Susan Greene had a great get on Ari Zavaras flunking out of college.

But it was the Rocky that dominated, starting with great daily stories: the nastiness in northwest Denver between the two community newspapers, which were backing opposing City Council candidates; the argument in the men’s restroom between John Hickenlooper and Zavaras over possible attack ads; a pop quiz that showed the two candidates with the least amount of political experience, Hickenlooper and Elizabeth Schlosser, knew the most about government.

And on and on.

The Rocky story the day after the election:

John Hickenlooper, the owner of one good suit, refashioned Denver politics with a mayoral campaign that was pure shucks and awe. The 51-year-old microbrewer ran folksy, funky TV campaign ads that made people laugh, and he refused to trash, defame or ridicule anyone except, maybe, himself.

Hickenlooper clobbered city Auditor Don Mares in the Tuesday runoff. Not bad for a political greenhorn who didn't vote in the 1999 mayoral election and a self-described: *Geek. *Serial entrepreneur. *Fugitive from the fashion police.

Which brings us to the 2004 election. The Post got into this election, although in some ways not until after the primary.

My favorite Post story was by David Olinger on former CSU President Al Yates, who lost his brother to cancer, which is why he was helping with the cigarette tax hike campaign. I like stories that make campaigns human.

If you want to read a wonderful candidate profile, check out Jim Tankersley’s piece on Democratic Senate candidate Mike Miles in the Rocky.

The Rocky’s Gwen Florio wrote stories about Republican Senate candidate Pete Coors that had his campaign and supporters furious, but caught the eye of the national media, including “Meet The Press,” which quoted from the stories for its Coors-Salazar debate.

The Post had a great Sunday story on fugitives voting, but missed the boat on the follow up when the county clerks and secretary of state held an emergency meeting. The Post reported a fraction of the meeting: what to do about the fugitives. But the reporter missed the main thrust of the lengthy meeting, which turned out to be the story of the election: All these Coloradoans had registered to vote, but their registrations couldn’t be found or the registration drives were suspicious.

And it was the Rocky that first reported how four wealthy Democrats were financing an elaborate effort to get their own elected. Reporter Burt Hubbard is amazing when it comes to campaign finance laws.

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the Rocky’s M.E. Sprengelmeyer, who is our LONE person in Washington but who “runs circles around” the Post’s BUREAU, according to congressional staffers. Go back and read his stuff from the Democratic convention in Boston.

That said, the Post’s Mike Soraghan did a great in breaking the story about Ben Nighthorse Campbell’s chief of staff and a possible kickback she may have received from an aide. That story and the subsequent investigation, I believe, were key in Campbell’s unexpected retirement.

And of course, there’s the Rocky’s Pete Blake, political columnist extraordinaire. He broke the story about Congressman Scott McInnis paying his wife a big fat salary. If you want to read a great story about this legislative session, check out his column on Democrats Rosemary Marshall, Dorothy Butcher and Alice Borodkin going after each other in Business Affairs and Labor Committee hearings.

Do you have a question of your own for Lynn Bartels? Ask it below by clicking on COMMENTS.

*Note: If you want to discuss something Ms. Bartels has said below, please do so in the Tuesday Open Thread. This thread is reserved for questions to make it easier for Ms. Bartels to skim through and answer as many questions as she can get to.

Comments

[Dylan]

Lynn-
What do you think Coffman will run for now? nothing, SOS or the 7th?
and do you think O'Donnell's campaign for the 7th is going to be hurting without Matt M. this time around?

[Ter Ducken]

I'd like to ask one more question if I may. Having covered the 7th CD, do you think the registration, geography, lifestyle, etc. of the district gives a natural advantage to a Democrat or Republican candidate?

And part two, if you could create the perfect candidate for the 7th CD, from appearance/age/demographic to issues, background, and resume, what would that candidate look like. In other words, what type of candidate is ideally suited to that district in your mind?

Sorry so long-winded and thanks again.

[Lynn Bartels]

I just think he is good, thats all. Wanted a fellow reporters take.

Posted by: DPfan | April 12, 2005 01:28 PM

I have the same opinion of Chris Frates as as his colleagues at the Denver Post.

[Lynn Bartels]

Sorry guys I have to back to the Senate floor. I shall return - and with shorter answers. Kelley Harp called me a windbag!

[Alva Adams]

If you have any more questions for Lynn Bartels, get them in quickly.

[Lynn Bartels]

1. Cuteness aside how good a Speaker is Romanoff -- do not rank on glibness but effectiveness please
2. Spradly -- how good a Speaker? Does she have either the talent or ambition to seek and win another major office
Thank you

Posted by: vladimir | April 12, 2005 02:59 PM

Vlad:
I know this sounds crazy as the Senate and the House are only yards from each other at the Capitol, but I'm not in the House much at all. You live in different worlds here. I'm in the Senate or Senate committees all day.
The press office is across from the women's room, where you tend to hear a lot of bitching if there is a problem. I haven't heard complaints there.
And I haven't heard it in the hall either.

As for Lola Spradley, although I wasn't down here then, I did hear complaints, not so much at her but at the Lola Spradley-Keith King team. A Republican told me they just weren't a lot of fun, and part of the job needs to have some fun to it.

That said, Spradley got the energy thing passed in November. I don't know if she has statewide appeal. It would depend on the rest.

my office is across

[Lynn Bartels]

Dear bloggers:
Sorry I'm so behind. Blame Mark Hillman. He introduced a tenure amendment on the floor this afternoon!

Anyhow, to the questions:
Lynn-
What do you think Coffman will run for now? nothing, SOS or the 7th?
and do you think O'Donnell's campaign for the 7th is going to be hurting without Matt M. this time around?

Posted by: Dylan | April 12, 2005 03:01 PM

I keep hearing that Coffman will run for SOS but who knows.
And Rick may not have Matt this time around but he has two people who weren't on his side last time: Bill Owens and Bob Beauprez.

[John Sapien]

Everybody knows Dick Wadhams ran Rick's campaign last time. Is Matt M. coming back to run Rick's campaign? Does it really matter?

[Lynn Bartels]

I'd like to ask one more question if I may. Having covered the 7th CD, do you think the registration, geography, lifestyle, etc. of the district gives a natural advantage to a Democrat or Republican candidate?

And part two, if you could create the perfect candidate for the 7th CD, from appearance/age/demographic to issues, background, and resume, what would that candidate look like. In other words, what type of candidate is ideally suited to that district in your mind?

Sorry so long-winded and thanks again.

Posted by: Ter Ducken | April 12, 2005 03:07 PM

Dear Ter:
Whew. What a question. I'm partial to the 7th having covered it in 2002. I still love our primary picture of all the candidates under the sign in Golden.
There's such an irony to that district.
Democrat Mike Feeley basically engineers their party doing the unthinkable and taking over the state Senate in 2000. He said he felt if Democrats didn't have a shot in redistricting, the party was a goner.
Beauprez was the GOP chair at the time. Turns out he lost the battle, but won the war.
Politicos had assumed the new 7th district would be in the Arapahoe County area and would be Mike Coffman's.
It turns out to be a horseshoe around Denver. Feeley and Beauprez run and Bob wins in a squeaker.

Actually, those two candidates are pretty hard to top. Feeley, a Marine, a moderate Democrat and everyone's favorite Irishman. Bob, a dairy banker turned successful banker with that Tom Bodet, leave the light on for you voice.

The voters in that district went for Gore in 2000, so it's definitely a see-saw CD.

I think of the district as working families so Rick's bachelor status could be an issue. Bob brought it up in 2002.

If voters are looking for a woman, that might give Peggy Lamm an edge.

[Lynn Bartels]

Everybody knows Dick Wadhams ran Rick's campaign last time. Is Matt M. coming back to run Rick's campaign? Does it really matter?

Posted by: John Sapien | April 12, 2005 06:20 PM

John:
It's news to me that Dick ran the campaign. I bet it's even bigger news to Matt.
I don't think he's coming back -- he's in Washington keeing us informed of beige alerts -- and I don't think it matters.
Should Rick win, I wouldn't be surprised if he offered Matt chief of staff.

[Lynn Bartels]

Dear political junkies:

I've been here since 7 and am about to head out. I appreciate your questions, comments and personal e-mails to me.

Sorry I couldn't respond quickly. I had to run back and forth to the Senate.

Lynn Bartels
The Rocky

[Jimmy]

Thanks Lynn, I really enjoyed it.

[Brian]

Another thanks, Lynn. I definately enjoyed it, and learned a few things in the process. Please encourage your coworkers to consider similar Q&A's (preferably here on Colorado Pols.) We political junkies are always hungry.

[Carol Carson]

Lynn
Governor Ritter has passed several new laws recently that will go in effect as of July of 2007. Could you give me a list of them?
I appreciate your time,thanks. Carol

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