November 11, 2006 01:49 AM UTC

More Job Lobbying in Ritter Administration

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• by: Colorado Pols

We already wrote that Sen. Jim Isgar and Republican Mark Larson are lobbying for jobs in the Ritter administration, but these two aren’t the only legislators looking to move on up.

Sen. Abel Tapia has been openly campaigning to be CDOT Director for more than a month and has even enlisted Southern Colorado donors to lobby on his behalf. Tapia is stressing his engineering background and that he would bring ethnic and regional diversity to the cabinet.

Boulder Sen. Ron Tupa has also been lobbying for a job – any job – in the new Ritter administration.

Ritter was reportedly put off by the lobbying efforts of Tapia and Tupa prior to the election, feeling that they should have been spending more time working to elect Democrats than working to get jobs later. Isgar and Larson probably have better chances of getting bigger jobs with Ritter than either Tapia and Tupa.