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Hickenlooper’s thoughts on Colo.’s 2018 legislative session

By 05/11/2018 | updated 7 years ago

Gov. John Hickenlooper called Colorado’s 2018 legislative session the most successful one he’s seen, even though he wanted more money spent on transportation and lost the battle for a bill about mental health and guns.

And on reforms to the state’s public pension system, he says: “When you step back and look at who made more, who made less, I think they work out pretty evenly.”

Here, the governor offers his take on what passed, what failed and what’s next.

> CLICK HERE for Hickenlooper’s comments.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper during his presentation at the Aspen Institute in Washington, D.C. on his 2Gen program of social welfare benefits on March 5, 2018. (Photo: Tom Ramstack, special to Colorado Politics)
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