DISQUS

The Colorado Independent: Freshmen In Tough Districts Getting A Boost With Bills?

  • What? · 2 years ago
    Get a Life This entire series speaks volumes about your total lack of understanding of the legislative process.
  • RalphT · 2 years ago
    Valid Analysis - Valuable Commentary Based on my 24-years of experience dealing with the Colorado Legislature, one needs to seriously question what "What?" would consider valuable.  The statistical formularly presented in this series is reasonable and defensible.  It balances quite well with some of the more heinous data that GOP Radical Right WingNuts chose to use in the 2006 campaign (and will likely trumpet again in 2008).


    In contrast to Rove-Wadhams fear-smear-exaggeration, this series of reports applies the same standard of analysis for all of the the legislators.  What we can all do is decide for ourselves what consclusions we draw from what CC has posted on our behalf.

  • Sandra Fish · 2 years ago
    Thanks for that comment... If you look back to the first post on our methodology, we totally acknowledge that this is NOT taking into consideration the quality of bills - it's more about quantity and about the coalitions formed by individual lawmakers to get bills passed.


    At the end of the session CoCo will be looking at measures of both quantity and quality in terms of legislative accomplishments.


    And this particular conclusion  - that freshman lawmakers from competitive seats on both sides of the aisle get tapped to carry some softballs - is a valid one. And it's a conclusion that leads one to ask why GOP leadership is basically hanging Sheila Garza Hicks out to dry - and why she's not trying to get something done on her own.

  • Sandra Fish · 2 years ago
    oops! that should be Stella!