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► The ugliness just doesn’t stop when it comes to the right-wing Jefferson County School Board. Here’s video of School Board President Ken Witt refusing to allow a student to speak about LGBT rights at a public board meeting.
► The EPA has finalized a new clean water rule intended to help crack down on polluters.
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► Governor John Hickenlooper and Senator Cory Gardner shared a stage in Denver to talk about fracking and other forms of oil and gas drilling.
► Well, that was…quick. Max Potter, a former editor at 5280 magazine who was virtually invisible as Hickenlooper’s “Senior Media Advisor” (minus some legal trouble and promoting his book about wine) is leaving the office after about 18 months on the job in order to write a book about Hickenlooper. The Governors memoir, titled “The Opposite of Woe,” is scheduled to be released in May 2016. No, Hickenlooper is not running for President.
► Nebraska has officially abolished the death penalty.
► Say hello to Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-The Broadmoor).
► Former New York Governor George Pataki has decided to climb into the clown car that is the 2016 Republican field for President. Yeah, George Pataki. No kidding.
► Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James spoke to graduating cadets on Thursday in Colorado Springs.
► Conservation Colorado takes a look at why it is absurd for legislators to attempt to sell public lands.
► Colorado added 4,200 new jobs in April.
► Republican Senator Ted Cruz wants the federal government to provide flood relief in his home state of Texas. This is the same Sen. Cruz who once voted against federal relief for Hurricane Sandy. Dana Milbank of the Washington Post thinks Cruz is a bit of a charlatan.
► The parents of a woman killed in the Aurora Theater Shootings will have to pay $220,000 to the gun retailers who sold weapons to alleged shooter James Holmes.
► Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker plans to sign legislation that would create a 20-week abortion ban with no exemptions for rape or incest. And thus ends Walker’s 2016 Presidential hopes.
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Remember when Republican leaders Boehner and McConnell in DC promised that if elected they would govern and get things done?
They have failed at the promise and there's more disarray on the Republican side than ever before:
Republicans hate government and it shows in their inability to provide even the simplest solutions to running our government (such as paying the bills that were rung up by previous congresses.)
Now all Democrats need to do is beat them about the head with this stuff from now til Nov. 2016. And quit giving Senate Republicans, the most obstructionist in history, the benefit of the doubt about their motives….
Hush! The economy will never be better until the black guy is out of office.
Hickenlooper and Gardner agree on energy policy: just frack, baby!
Pols might notice that Dem Hickenlooper could be getting co-opted by Republican/Conservationist Cory Gardner on this issue. Damned sure Hick wouldn't notice. Bennet left to stew in his own waste water ground well?