Face the State

"When it comes to Colorado's budget crisis, Rep. Cheri Gerou says the first step is admitting the state has a problem.

Gerou, R-Evergreen, said today during a meeting of the Long-Term Fiscal Stability Commission that the state's current budget woes might actually be therapeutic. The state faces a more than $300 million shortfall in the current budget year, and likely could see a bigger revenue hole next year."

"On AM760 this morning, I interviewed Tom Jensen at Public Policy Polling about his firm's new survey of Colorado voters, which will be released over the course of the week. You can listen to the interview here."

"During our health care discussion this morning on my AM760 drive-time show, we focused in on the public option and President Obama's controversial comments about it in Grand Junction over the weekend. In the 8am hour, Congressman Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) happened to be listening in, and decided to make an unexpected call in to discuss the ongoing legislative wrangling. You can listen to the discussion here - it starts about halfway through the clip."

"Abortion opponents are one step closer to putting a “personhood amendment” on the 2010 ballot after the title of their proposal was approved today.

The next step is getting approval for the language on petition forms, and then gathering 76,047 valid voter signatures over the next six months.

The proposal differs from the 2008 “personhood amendment” that failed, Leslie Hanks, vice president of Colorado Right to Life."

"Secretary of State Bernie Buescher today halted rule-making on an under-siege Constitutional amendment that would ban sole source contract holders, the executives who oversee companies with sole source contracts and their extended families from giving to political campaigns."