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May 09, 2013 07:50 AM UTC

The 2013 Colorado Legislative Session In One Word

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  • by: Colorado Pols
Will need Tylenol soon.
Nothing on the calendar.

The afterparties ran late into the night after adjournment sine die yesterday afternoon of the first regular session of the 69th Colorado General Assembly. Both sides agree that this was the most momentous legislative session in many years, reaching beyond the memory of just about everybody working in or around the state capitol today. That's where the agreement ends, of course, and the descriptive terms for this year's session diverge into polar opposites based pretty much entirely on party affiliation.

Your hosts now face the enormous task of recapping and summarizing this historic legislative session in the coming days. To kick things off gently on this sleepy Thursday morning, give us your one-word description of this year's legislative session in comments below.

We'll start with a word you can barely pronounce with a hangover: "determinative."

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92 thoughts on “The 2013 Colorado Legislative Session In One Word

  1. Thank goodness there is no such thing as a filibuster here at state level. The will of the majority actually gets to win out. What a concept.

  2. Definitive.

     

    As in to define or specify  precisely

    Eg. If we elect D majorities in 2012, they will kill children and raise taxes protect jobs and workers, pass commen sense gun safety legislation, get gov't out of the personal lives of consenting adults who love each other and want to commit to their relationship, allow students who attend / graduate CO high school to pay in -state tuition at CO state colleges, and  so on.

    If in the 2014 election cycle, the voters want to do different things – or eliminate these things – they can vote for different legislators.  (Who will not repeal any of the major 2013 legislation.)   But the voters are clear on which party did what. Definitive.

    1. Now mine doesn't look so bad.  To be fair, yours does provide one word for starters. Guess my one word should have been"unfilibustered". Is that a word?

  3. I think PR's "progressive" says that without needing the extra words to explain it. Maybe, to remove the partisan connotaion now associated with the word "progressive" …. progressing?

  4. Productive. 

    (whether you're for or oppose the legislation, this was one of the most productive legislative sessions in a long while)

        1. They'll be shocked – shocked, I tell you.. Or not. I think the numbers from the Progress Now Colorado image posted further below are cherry-picked as the most optimistic of a number of polls, but the majority/minority sentiments are clear:

          • Colorado voters support gay rights, including full-on marriage at this point
          • Colorado voters support talented immigrant children getting a chance to better themselves and their world at college at in-state rates.
          • Colorado voters (and Republican clerks) support common sense voting reforms that modernize and ease access to participation in our government.
          • Colorado voters support rape victims in their efforts to escape their attacker's influence.
          • Colorado voters support the modest gun regulations imposed this year. Even Republican voters support most of these.

          Yes – Colorado voters will be heard loud and clear in 2014. But the sound you're listening to come that November evening isn't the one you're dreaming about in your head.

          1. Hey, there must be a wacko rightie Sleeping Giant somewhere who isn't answering the phone for polls or voting. And just wait until he wakes up.  Boy is he going to get those Dems.

    1. Guess we just me a majority radical state then because these are the people we elected and the legislation reflects the majority will.

    1. So now the majority of Colorado voters and their elected reps are extreme?  Gee why don't you move someplace nice.   Bet you don't think the majority of voters and their elected reps in Missouri are extreme. How about moving there?  Got to warn you about the humidity though.  It's killer.

  5. ArapaGOP's list of words is actually pretty sad. It shows someone desperately trying to cling to a yesterday that never existed, fearful and lashing out at the future. And fundamentally opposed to a vibrant democracy.

    It's sad.

    1. it is the list handed out by the handlers. Notice, from another list, that everytime an R talks about Obamacare they insert the word "expensive" in every other sentence

    1. Then we must be a state chock full of ugly, socialist, radical,  over reaching, extremists.  I'm sure I must have missed a few.adjectives. Oh yeah, the electorate is a travesty.

       

  6. It's times like this that I do miss the old Red Room (pre-campaign finance ruination) for the success parties (and a good place for the bad times too).

  7. If Arapgop (and others) genuinely believe their list of words, then they need to get those outstanding R candidates rolling for next year.  Who's running for Governor? Senator? Other statewide office? The State House, and State Senate seats that are up for election?  It's time for the R candidates to come forward and tell us all how the "ugly" results of Democratic control will be overturned after the next election.  Who are these outstanding R candidates?  Please – all of you – take one step forward (not you, Tommy T., Bob B., Scott McG., etc, etc). . . .

     

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