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April 02, 2013 03:21 PM UTC

Waller AG Talk Growing Louder

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  • by: Colorado Pols
The man who relieved us all of Rep. Doug Bruce.
The man who relieved us of Rep. Doug Bruce.

A notable footnote in FOX 31's Eli Stokols' story about attempts by GOP House Minority Leader Mark Waller to bring a few House Republicans in support of this year's budget bill–which no Republican Senator backed.

After all 15 Senate Republicans voted against the budget last week, prompting strong criticism from Sen. Pat Steadman, D-Denver, who sits on the Joint Budget Committee and, a few days later, from the Denver Post editorial board, which echoed Steadman’s complaint that Republicans, after voting mostly in favor of budgets that had to be balanced the last few years with transfers and other gimmicks, refused to support a more measured, but expensive budget this year.

Unlike Senate Minority Leader Bill Cadman, R-Colorado Springs, who complained that the budget increases spending across the board, House Minority Leader Mark Waller, R-Colorado Springs, appears to be more concerned with the optics of his entire 28-member caucus voting against the bill, especially after seeing the criticism leveled at Cadman’s caucus…

Waller, who is almost certain to run for Attorney General last year, [Pols emphasis] would like to be able to demonstrate that he leads a group of lawmakers who are pragmatic and responsible; and helping forge a bipartisan budget compromise would help him make that case.

Rep. Waller's name has been floated as a potential candidate for Attorney General in 2014 a few times, but particularly with the sidelining of Weld County DA Ken Buck as he battles cancer, Waller could very easily become the GOP's presumptive nominee in this race if he gets in. Working hard to build his reputation as a better partner and good-faith negotiator than his predecessor Frank McNulty, an upcoming bid for AG would provide some perspective for this and a few other statesmanlike actions from Waller this year.

Incumbent AG John Suthers was appointed to the job before being elected in 2006. The solid wins he enjoyed were partly due to that, and a good campaign organization to push him through to relatively easy re-election in 2010. Waller will have neither advantage, of course, and next year's open race for attorney general could be the one Democrats have been waiting for to take this office back.

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8 thoughts on “Waller AG Talk Growing Louder

    1. Not at all. Republicans know the story with Bruce.

      As Pols acknowledges, Mark Waller is a stand up guy with many friends on both sides of the aisle. If he runs he will make an outstanding attorney general, and he's more than a match for Morgan Carroll.

    2. A sock puppet could have unseated Douglas Bruce considering the photographer kick, the swearing in fiasco, and other Douglas Bruce antics. Heck, I didn’t even get to the arrogance and pomposity. With all that being said, any group who limits government revenue in this State, will be taken down by Bartels and her comrades, even if a true Saint. Look what the tax loving, big government Romans did to Jesus…

       

       

       

       

       

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