Progress Radio Update
Click to hear Senate Majority Leader Ken Gordon respond to Gov. Owen's vetoes.

mp3: 00:40, 497 KB

UPDATE: Let's start the Hit Parade:

SB 138: 10% ethanol requirement. VETOED: Texas oilmen win over Colorado farmers, thanks to Texas import Bill Owens.

SB 198: Regulation of contracts between health care providers and employers to protect employees from bogus coverages. VETOED.

SB 239: Mortician licensure. Don't need that? Hope your grandma's really in that jar.

SB 081: Ending discrimination based on sexual orientation. As fast as he could...

SB 111: Cultural competency instruction for health care providers. What is that, like, multi-culturalism? Jim Welker says that's a bunch of hooey.

SB 064: Monitoring of state contractors. After Colorado lost millions on Owens' various IT boondoggles, this veto is a straight-up insult.

HB 1314: Employers get to intimidate their workers into brow-beating sessions on unions or Jesus or whatever -- and that's just the way Bill Owens likes it.

HB 046: The "P-16" comprehensive education study. Because if he'd let it become law, it might have revealed what a disaster his precious College Opportunity Fund really is.

SB 209: Colorado Higher Ed task force. Again, it would make COF vouchers look bad.

SB 065: Public School Capital Construction Advisory Committee. A no-brainer if you want to starve public education anyway.

SB 069: Teachers apparently don't need school accountability reports that help them, parents need reports that help them criticize teachers like Jay Bennish and let them know if the school requires a uniform. Buh-bye.

HB 1336: Athletic agents.

SB 001: "Enjoy those high prescription costs."

HB 1346: He's right, those kids didn't need health care.

SB 047: Only rural folks have health care needs requiring better intermunicipal organization, it seems. Go figure.

SB 105: "Elevator and Escalator Safety Act." Have you ever used the one at the Capitol?

HB 1331: Landscapers don't need a license -- remember that after that new pond you just built floods your basement.

HB 1127: Feel the burn, athletic trainers. No license necessary, so go ahead and twist your students like pretzels.

We're saying hello to Bill Owens' Little Friend today. That's a reference to Scarface and the veto pen: get your mind out of the gutter.

It's a rough day for progress in Colorado, but there's good news just (looks at calendar) a few months away.