The local right wing blogs are all a twitter about comments Senator Cheri Jahn made to the Denver Business Journal recently:
“When legislation comes through, the very first thing I am going to look at is: How will it affect my business and my ability to operate and to expand and to maintain what I am doing.”
“And if it is going to hurt me, I am not going to support it.”
I thought I voted for her to look at how legislation would affect me and the people in Colorado – that should be the “first” thing that she “looks” at. This kind of attitude from Democrats in the state legislature is why we had to pass a state minimum wage by inititive and referendum.
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Hmm. Inappropriate in a comment; exponentially worse for a diary.
http://www.bizjournals.com/den…
I can read, I was right. In the Open Thread. Where this conversation belongs.
Do you have a subscription? Or are you relying on the right wing blogs for the context?
maybe this diary should be deleted?
but apparently no.
Jatodd may not know you can do that.
I confirmed that the quote was, in fact, in the DBJ before I posted this. Admittedly, the DBJ provides no other context and I have no way of checking whether this statement was made in a context that would change its meaning.
Jahn is having a townhall meeting on Saturday. I plan to go and ask her to explain and/or defend the comment. We’ll see if she will.
BTW – grow up!
I’m just guessing here, so please don’t take my guess to imply that the DBJ, or you, are wasting our time (intentionally or otherwise) by making something of this quote.
It’s just a hunch, but my guess is she was speaking to her ability to understand the effects of legislation generally, and citing her specific experience to explain her ability to anticipate possible ill-effects of a bill. That’s my guess, because as I see it, being a small business owner and being intimately aware of the ways and extent to which legislation will affect one’s own small business is a standard way to argue that one understands the needs of businesses across the state.
Now my guess requires that I assume that a small-time state politician could mistate a standard argument just sufficiently that a lazy news outfit could publish without context, so they have a story.
Your insinuation is that perhaps she literally sees her influence on legislation as a vehicle for protecting her own small business separate from the wellfare of the state, and is foolish/arrogant enough to say so directly to the press.
As I said at the beginning, I’m just guessing. But maybe when you see her at the townhall, maybe–this is just my hunch–it’d be a better use of time to ask her something substantive about specifics re: balancing budgets or bringing jobs to CO?