Face the State

"It's not that you're doing a bad job congressman, it's just that the system needs changing.

With that co-opting of Obama's change message, Unity Party candidate Bill Hammons announced today that he would challenge Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, in 2010.

Hammons received .63 percent of the vote last November."

"Sen. Evie Hudak, D-Westminster, says she's not bumping a Republican appointee off an interim legislative committee to study new ways to fund public education.

As former Sen. President Peter Groff, D-Denver, left the legislature in May, he surprised Democratic colleagues by appointing Republican Sen. Nancy Spence of Centennial to the interim education committee. "

"Coloradans who dutifully lined up at the Crowne Plaza Hotel downtown this morning got a rude shock when they were told the tickets to see Vice President Joe Biden were already gone.

But for some, there was a happy ending."

"For 50 years, northeast Denver’s Senate District 33 has been represented by an African-American. But when state Senator Peter Groff departed to take a post in President Barack Obama’s administration, Democrats chose Michael Johnston, a Caucasian, to replace him, writes The Denver Post, which notes that Representative Terrance Carroll, who also represents northeast Denver, is now the Legislature’s sole African-American. (Groff’s father, Regis Groff, once held the same district seat as his son.)"

"Dems dominate both houses of the legislature and the Democratic chief executive is an inexperienced politician who tries to be all things to all people while being particularly pliant toward the wishes of unions and environmentalists. Sounds like Washington, DC, but sadly I’m talking about Colorado….

For your consideration, I offer you my column at HumanEvents.com discussing the just-ended 2009 Colorado legislative session."