chris holbert
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Bipartisan bill with momentum would speed college transfers’ pace to graduation
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A significant bill with bipartisan momentum could make it easier for college students to transfer to other state schools. Senate Bill 69 passed the upper chamber Friday on a 33-0 vote, so it bounces to the House to start the process there. It’s sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Chris Holbert of Parker and Sen. Rachel…
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PHOTOS: Colorado Politics hosts party to celebrate launch of legislative session
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More than 150 politicos of all stripes packed the historic Carriage House at the Governor’s Residence at Boettcher Mansion in Denver Wednesday night for a session-opening shindig thrown by Colorado Politics. Republicans rubbed shoulders with Democrats, toasting the young political news website and the nearly 120-year-old publication it incorporated last year. Vince Bzdek, editor of…
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"Make Your Voice Heard" returns to Senate for second year
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Borrowing on the success of a similar effort last year, Senate Republicans Wednesday announced another round of “Make Your Voice Heard.” Under the effort, citizens can submit suggestions for legislation they’d like to see changed or repealed. The inaugural “Make Your Voice Heard” in 2017 drew around 1,000 responses, according to spokesman Sage Naumann. “Part…
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Capitol M – Behind the Scenes at the Colorado General Assembly 1/19/18
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BRRR It was so cold that….If you had to pick the most miserable-looking person at Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. Marade, the winner, hands down, would be Gov. John Hickenlooper. (I would definitely make the top 10 because I fell on the ice and have bruises all over to prove it.) Not because he didn’t…
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Sen. Mike Merrifield picks up key GOP support for arts accreditation point
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Sen. Mike Merrifield, in his last session before retiring from the legislature, is more hopeful than ever about securing an optional accreditation point for Colorado schools that offer arts programs. He tried and failed last year, but this session Senate Bill 8 has an influential co-sponsor among Republicans, Majority Leader Chris Holbert of Parker. Merrifield, a…
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Unite Colorado unaffiliated candidates blast DC dysfunction, compare shutdown to failed special session
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The four unaffiliated statehouse candidates running under the Unite Colorado banner – that’s the organization that used to be known as the Centrist Project – declared a pox on both major parties’ houses after the federal government ran out of money late Friday night when Congress failed to approve spending legislation. In separate releases, all…
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Senate fix to last year’s hospital provider fee bill to surface Tuesday
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UPDATE: Senate Bill 18-088 was introduced late Tuesday and sent to the Senate Finance Committee. The issue that caused Gov. John Hickenlooper to call back lawmakers for what turned into a failed special session makes a return visit to the Capitol this week. But Senate leaders indicated Tuesday this measure might actually solve the mess that…
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Centrist Project launches initial Colorado slate of unaffiliated legislative candidates, announces name change
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The nonprofit formerly known as the Centrist Project, a group working to elect nonpartisan officials nationwide, on Monday unveiled a slate of four unaffiliated Colorado candidates running this year for the Legislature in the opening salvo of its assault on the two major parties’ unbroken rule of the state’s government. It also announced it’s changing…
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Legislative leaders set meeting to review workplace harassment policies at Colorado Capitol
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Colorado House and Senate leaders plan to meet in mid-December to review workplace harassment policies at the state Capitol in the wake of a flurry of recent allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct against legislators, Senate President Kevin Grantham said Tuesday. The Legislative Council’s Executive Committee – made up of leaders from both parties in…
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Senate leaders say Ray Scott violated no rules by blocking critics on social media
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Ray Scott won’t face an ethics rebuke from his fellow senators, after Republican and Democratic leadership said his social media accounts are his business. Scott, a Republican from Grand Junction, received complaints from three Grand Valley residents because he blocked them from posting on his social media accounts, including Facebook, Charles Ashby of the Grand…