One take w/Peter & Joey: If voters wanted change, they got it
How will the 45th U.S. president be viewed for his impact on Colorado history? ColoradoPolitics.com’s Joey Bunch and Peter Marcus agree that the opening days of the Trump administration have amounted to a whirlwind of upheaval for our state, with Colorado’s local, state and federal elected officials not knowing what to expect next. But is that a bad or good thing?
Says Joey: “We’ve had all of these cookie-cutter politicians who have come in and made all these promises, and then we re-elected a president on ‘hope and change,’ and it was heavy on hope and not much change, so let’s see what happens.”
Yeah…but, says Peter: “Its the uncertainty that comes with it. It’s that state leaders were left in a vacuum.”
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