VOL. 02 NO. 019 | February 3, 2017 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2017

DENVER – Good morning and Happy Friday! Read on for your ultimate briefing in all things Colorado politics … and have a great weekend!

News and Opinion from The Colorado Statesman

? From ethics stories to ethics code for Flynn

Coffman camp shrugs off reports national Dems again targeting his seat

PHOTOS: AARP Colorado launches legislative session advocacy campaign at state Capitol

Sherrie Gibson set to launch bid for Colorado Republican Party vice chairman

Governor asks CDOT to establish ‘high priority’ project list to submit to the feds

Making the Sausage: A conspiracy of reasonable freshman senators

Lawmakers breathe deep, cross fingers, take up thorny construction litigation reform debate

The First Shot

“A staff member in the legislative branch is subject to open-records requests. Why isn’t an equal staff member who works under the judicial branch not subject to the same requests? …It’s the legislature’s job to write laws. It’s not the judicial branch’s charge to write laws.”

– Rep. Polly Lawrence, R-Roxborough Park

The General Assembly

House committee again rejects bill to make judicial branch records subject to CORA

http://coloradofoic.org/house-committee-rejects-bill-make-judicial-branch-records-subject-cora/

EDITORIAL:  Open-records changes still needed for transparency

https://www.denverpost.com/2017/02/02/open-records-changes-still-needed-for-transparency/

Stapleton, Capitol Republicans pitch plan to rein in PERA’s exposure

http://coloradopolitics.com/stapleton-capitol-republicans-pitch-plan-rein-peras-exposure/

Quick! Throw Some Cold Water on Sen. Kevin Lundberg

https://www.coloradopols.com/diary/91605/quick-throw-some-cold-water-on-sen-kevin-lundberg#sthash.Kdi7GWf4.dpbs

Should Colorado colleges eliminate free speech zones?

http://kdvr.com/2017/02/02/should-colorado-colleges-eliminate-free-speech-zones/

Colorado senate advances bill to let free speech go free-range on campus

http://coloradopolitics.com/state-senate-advances-bill-let-free-speech-go-free-range-campus/

Complete Colorado: NY’s Bloomberg is back in Colorado’s gun debate

http://coloradopolitics.com/complete-colorado-nys-bloomberg-back-colorados-gun-debate/

Home inspectors regulation aimed at dummies and frauds

http://coloradopolitics.com/home-inspectors-regulation-colorado/

Chile License Plate Bill Is A Hot One At The State Capitol

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2017/02/02/chile-license-plate-moves-forward-in-the-state-capitol/

Want Pueblo Chile on your plate? Call your legislator today

http://coloradopolitics.com/want-pueblo-chile-on-your-plate-call-your-legislator-today/

IT’S SHOW TIME: House Dems Prefer Political Theater to Governing

http://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2017/02/02/its-show-time-house-dems-prefer-political-theater-to-governing/

Hometown hero: Oklahoma paper reports on Sen. Williams’ rise

http://coloradopolitics.com/hometown-hero-oklahoma-williams/

Construction costs keep building

https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2017/02/03/construction-costs-keep-building.html

Colorado’s Public Lands & Public Health Under Attack by House GOP

https://www.coloradopols.com/diary/91502/colorados-public-lands-public-health-under-attack-by-house-gop#sthash.lRRGfcX1.dpbs

Colorado’s Rep. Barbara McLachlan likes to use puns

https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/co/2017/02/02/colorados-rep-barbara-mclachlan-likes-to-tell-puns/

Politics in Colorado

EDITORIAL: Magazine documents bad Colorado election law

http://gazette.com/editorial-magazine-documents-bad-colorado-election-law/article/1595850

Candidate for State GOP Chair explains how he’ll make peace among Colorado Republicans

https://www.coloradopols.com/diary/91566/candidate-for-state-gop-chair-explains-how-hell-make-peace-among-colorado-republicans#sthash.O4MLs3ZP.dpbs

A closer look at political organizing, paid protesters

https://www.9news.com/news/local/next/a-closer-look-at-political-organizing-paid-protesters/396232897

Constituent Indifference Becoming Trouble for Cory Gardner

https://www.coloradopols.com/diary/91594/constituent-indifference-becoming-trouble-for-cory-gardner#sthash.1MOV5oCs.dpbs

ON THE FRINGE: ProgressNow Colorado Stands Alone against Gorsuch

http://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2017/02/02/on-the-fringe-progressnow-colorado-stands-alone-against-gorsuch/

Progress Now Founder on Strategies to Combat the Trump Administration

https://www.westword.com/news/progress-now-founder-on-strategies-to-combat-the-trump-administration-8725002

Straight outta #copolitics: 10 Twitter profiles we like; some feel otherwise

http://coloradopolitics.com/straight-outta-copolitics-10-twitter-profiles-we-like-some-feel-otherwise/

Ten anonymous Twitter profiles we like on #copolitics

http://coloradopolitics.com/ten-anonymous-twitter-profiles-like-copolitics/

Governor Hickenlooper

Hick, wary of Trump, calls him disruptive but wants him to succeed

http://coloradopolitics.com/hick-wary-trump-calls-disruptive-wants-succeed/

Gov. Hickenlooper loses his weekend as he departs for trade mission to Cuba

http://coloradopolitics.com/governor-not-crazy-weekend-trip-cuba-sucks-name-trade/

Governor asks CDOT to establish ‘high priority’ project list to submit to feds

https://www.coloradostatesman.com/governor-asks-cdot-to-establish-high-priority-project-list-to-submit-to-feds/

Colorado Government

Colorado’s Doug Lamborn introduces bill to strip federal funding for NPR, Corporation for Public Broadcasting

https://www.denverpost.com/2017/02/02/colorado-doug-lamborn-strip-funding-public-broadcasting/

Colorado Springs’ Doug Lamborn introduces bill to strip federal funding for NPR, Corporation for Public Broadcasting

http://gazette.com/colorado-springs-doug-lamborn-introduces-bill-to-strip-federal-funding-for-npr-corporation-for-public-broadcasting/article/1595911

Wait list for Colorado adults with severe disabilities stretches months, even years long

https://www.denverpost.com/2017/02/02/wait-list-adults-disabilities-months-years-long/

Cory Gardner: Doing his part to ease the burden on brews

http://coloradopolitics.com/cory-gardner-part-ease-burden-brews/

TAXES AND BEER: Something Upon Which We All Agree

http://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2017/02/02/taxes-and-beer-something-upon-which-we-all-agree/

Colorado Springs City Council video squabble ends in favor of showing the video

https://www.aurorasentinel.com/opinion/quidnunc-r-training-wheels-aurora/

Viewpoint: Why Denver’s next bond issue must be different

https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2017/02/03/viewpoint-why-denver-s-next-bond-issue-must-be.html

Colorado’s D.C. delegation rises above fray to back “commonsense” bipartisan, public lands bills

https://www.denverpost.com/2017/02/02/colorado-delegation-backs-public-land-bills/

Public lands would get a boost from Bennet, Gardner bills

http://coloradopolitics.com/bennet-gardner-public-lands/

Colorado and President Trump

Trump pledges to end political limits on churches

https://www.denverpost.com/2017/02/02/donald-trump-national-prayer-breakfast/

Does Trump Consider Denver a Sanctuary City Based on ICE Reports?

https://www.westword.com/news/does-trump-consider-denver-a-sanctuary-city-based-on-ice-reports-8752943

VIDEO:  Sen. Michael Bennet Statement on Betsy DeVos Nomination

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueBy3ckM_R0

‘The president would like to visit your business’: In Trump era, that posses a PR dilemma

https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2017/02/02/the-president-would-like-to-visit-your-business-in.html

Therapists treat post-election anxiety

http://kdvr.com/2017/02/02/therapists-treat-post-election-anxiety/

Denver cathedral hosts prayer vigil ‘to ease anxiety’ over current events

https://www.9news.com/news/local/denver-cathedral-hosts-prayer-vigil-to-ease-anxiety-in-the-nation/396257615

Readers respond to ‘My cousin, the Trump supporter’

https://www.coloradoindependent.com/163794/griego-readers-respond-trump-supporter

Insights: Press scuffles in Colorado play out differently than in Washington

http://coloradopolitics.com/insights-press-scuffles-in-colorado-play-out-differently-than-in-washington/

Nordstrom distances itself from Ivanka Trump brand

http://kdvr.com/2017/02/02/nordstrom-distances-itself-from-ivanka-trump-brand/

Just for laughs

Calendar

February 3rd

Denver GOP First Friday Breakfast

Parker Breakfast Club

February 4th

Denver GOP Organizational Mtg

Gunnison GOP Organizational Mtg

Arapahoe County GOP Organizational Mtg

Boulder Dems County Party Reorganization

Today in history

1995 – Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

1984 – John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history’s first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.

1972 – The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history.

1971 – New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption.

1969 – In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.

1961 – The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a “Doomsday Plane” is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States’ bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC’s command post.

1959 – Deaths of rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.

1913 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.

1870 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to male citizens regardless of race.

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