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Wednesday, April 27, 2005
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Sharing the Colorado River
Cherry Creek News: "State Representative Kathleen Curry, D-Gunnison, released the following statement today regarding the federal government's decision to craft its own drought plan for the Colorado River after negotiations failed between several Western states. 'I am certain that Secretary Norton will weigh the facts in this situation and make a fair decision regarding equitable use of this limited water supply,' said Rep. Curry. 'It is critical that the needs of the Upper Basin be recognized by the secretary as she makes her decision. We must rebuild storage in Lake Powell when we have the opportunity and this is the year to do it.'"
Category: Colorado Water
7:03:31 PM 
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Post poll biased?
Opinion Journal: "Read these questions carefully and you'll see that the Post's headline is false. The poll not only doesn't use the word filibuster; it doesn't even describe the procedure. The way the question is worded, the Democrats could have 'blocked' the nominations by the normal method of voting them down--and there is no reason to think that 'randomly selected adults' would have been paying enough attention to know the difference."
Stygius: "The joint staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is dramatically expanding the scope of its John Bolton investigation, conducting interviews with all sorts of people."
Category: 2004 Presidential Transition
6:57:50 PM
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Beauprez on the Aaron Harber Show
From email from the Aaron Harbor show: "Congressman Bob Beauprez, in a candid one-on-one interview, explains why he wants to be Governor on KBDI-TV Channel 12's 'The Aaron Harber Show' this Friday, April 29th, at 9:00 pm, and this Sunday, May 1st, at 2:00 pm, as part of the 'Who Wants To Be Governor?' series within the program."
Colorado Pols: "According to a mass email sent by the Chairman of Backbone America Citizens Alliance (and former President of the Colorado Senate) John Andrews, four contenders in the upcoming Governor race answered the group's survey concerning Referendum C."
Category: Denver November 2006 Election
6:32:06 PM
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Mark Hillman for State Treasurer?
From Peter Blake's column in today's Rocky Mountain News, "(Mark Hillman, R-Burlington), the minority leader, who's term-limited after next year's session, confirmed Tuesday he'll be running for state treasurer in 2006. His commitment is 'very firm,' but not official. 'I don't want it to be a distraction from the legislative session,' he said. Treasurers often use their job as a steppingstone to governor - Roy Romer and Bill Owens, to name two - but incumbent Republican Mike Coffman recently gave up his quest for governor. No Democratic candidates for treasurer have yet surfaced."
Category: Denver November 2006 Election
5:55:26 AM
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Filibusters and Bolton
The Denver Post editorial staff weighs in on U.S. Senator Ken Salazar's unenviable position in the middle of the debate to end filibusters for judicial appointments [April 27, 2005, "Senate showdown no need to go nuclear"]. They write, "It's past time for the Senate to find a way around the nuclear option. Frist and Reid should ignore the extremists and find an approach that will preserve Senate rules and advance the president's right for fair consideration of his nominees."
U.S. Senators Allard and Salazar are on opposite sides of the filibuster controversy, according to the Rocky Mountain News [April 27, 2005, "Colorado senators split on filibuster"]. From the article, "On Tuesday, Allard said he is willing to listen to Democrats' proposed compromises, but he's not willing to accept anything that preserves their right to filibuster future nominees."
TalkLeft: "Sen. Bill Frist has rejected the Democrat's offer to pass a few of Bush's judicial picks in exchange for not forcing a vote on the nuclear option which would ban filibustering of judicial, cabinet and other nominees."
Moderate Voice: "The Times reports that Bolton's nomination - beset with allegations that he has been a bully, irritated diplomats in England, and sparked negative private comments from Secretary of State Colin Powell - is being pressed feverishly behind the scenes and in public by Vice President Cheney, Karl Rove and others...and framed in a way that it must be won for the good of the President."
Category: 2004 Presidential Transition.
5:32:23 AM
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Compact States Fail
Beginning May 1st the Department of Interior will begin crafting a plan for the 7 Colorado River Compact states to share water in times of drought, according to the Rocky Mountain News [April 27, 2005, "Feds to map river plan"]. The states failed to reach a deal on their own. That's a surprise...well maybe not. Here in Colorado we needed legislation to get the people from each river basin to sit down together and talk about sharing and drought.
From the article, "The headwaters of the Colorado River occur high in the Never Summer Mountains in Rocky Mountain National Park and supply about half the water used on Colorado's Front Range."
The head of Colorado's Water Quality Control Division submitted his resignation yesterday, according to the Denver Post [April 27, 2005, "State water-quality chief quits"]. From the article, "In December, The Denver Post documented the widespread use of waivers for polluters under Pifher and other state leaders. Since then, the agency has begun revising some of its regulations. In recent weeks, debates about the philosophy and direction of the agency have been hot topics in work-group and committee meetings, state employees have said. Pifher is a former private lawyer who won acclaim representing Colorado Springs and industries that have permits to discharge pollution into public waters."
Here's some good water news for a change from the Cortez Journal. They write, "For people who have lived in southwest Colorado during the last three to four years of drought, a glance at McPhee Reservoir today may look more like an ocean. McPhee has already surpassed 2004's peak capacity of 309,749 acre-feet, which was reached last June. The present amount in the reservoir is 334,203 acre-feet. (An acre-foot of water is equivalent to 325,829 gallons of water, which is enough to fill an entire football field at the depth of one foot.)"
Howling AT A Waning Moon: "American Rivers' river policy update."
Category: Colorado Water
5:22:56 AM
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