(Is that what Tim Neville told him to say? — Promoted by Colorado Pols)
KOA 850-AM Morning News anchor Steffan Tubbs wouldn’t be expected to know all the ins and outs of the state legislative session, which ends Wednesday.
But if you’ve been following Colorado’s Republicans at all over the past three months, you know they’ve used their new-found Senate leadership position to prioritize legislation (anti-woman, anti-immigrant, anti-working class) that’s divisive, at best.
Yet, Senate President Bill Cadman told Tubbs this morning:
“In a split legislature, you have to stay focused on the things that matter to both sides, and frankly to the 5.3 million people who we represent,” Cadman told KOA at 2:45 below.
But that’s not what Cadman did.
Recall Cadman’s Republicans opened the legislative session by stripping money from the budget for a program to provide drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants–a program widely thought to make driving safer in the state.
Next, Republicans–upset over the use of birth control–deleted funds for an award-winning state-run program that reduced teen pregnancy by 40 percent and teen abortions by 35 percent.
They went on to block legislation to forcing corporations to pay taxes on profits currently hidden in overseas tax havens–and spending this money on schools. Similar legislation received bipartisan support in other states, yet it was torpedoed by the GOP here.
Onward Cadman went, finishing things off by taking advantage of a horrible Longmont murder to introduce fetal personhood legislation, modeled boiler-plate-style, after a bill promoted by a national anti-choice group.
Democrats had partisan legislation of their own, for sure, but for Tubbs to let Cadman say he “focused on things that matter to both sides” defies, for the most part, how Republicans actually used the power handed to them by voters in November, when control of the state senate went to the GOP.
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Both sides of the GOP: the economic conservatives and the religious nuts.
I thought perhaps he was referring to “both sides” of the Neville family (Tim and MiniTimee)?
Well, shoot, honey. We got both kindsa music here…country and western.
You’ve got it, FrankUnderwood. I think the question(?) Tubbs asked says as much about the politics of the station as it does about Cadman or the Republican Senate