Governor Zero
What if we had a governor's race and nobody came? Let's say the current executive director of the great state of Colorado was term limited. (And that his White House aspirations were currently in a toilet somewhere.) Let's say Hickenlooper, Bridges, Salazar and some of the other Dem favorites were planning on staying as far from the mansion as possible. Let's say some of the other leading liberals were too youngish or too cosmo to consider campaigning in the ranchlands out east.
What would Dems do then, besides handing the mansion to whatever Republican rolls out of bed in 2006?
Perhaps it is too early to panic. Perhaps the reason nobody has declared for governor is that folks are sitting back waiting to see if C and D pass. Despite strong(ish) bipartisan support, the ammendments could very well get shot down. And that means Colorado is facing something beyond a budget crisis. It means that Colorado will be, in effect, impossible to govern at all.
So I am sitting here, crossing my fingers and hoping that the ammendments pass and that they pull some Democrats out of the woodwork. If not, maybe I'll just run for governer myself. Heck, I'm certainly as qualified to run Colorado as Harriet Miers is to be on the Supreme Court!
What would Dems do then, besides handing the mansion to whatever Republican rolls out of bed in 2006?
Perhaps it is too early to panic. Perhaps the reason nobody has declared for governor is that folks are sitting back waiting to see if C and D pass. Despite strong(ish) bipartisan support, the ammendments could very well get shot down. And that means Colorado is facing something beyond a budget crisis. It means that Colorado will be, in effect, impossible to govern at all.
So I am sitting here, crossing my fingers and hoping that the ammendments pass and that they pull some Democrats out of the woodwork. If not, maybe I'll just run for governer myself. Heck, I'm certainly as qualified to run Colorado as Harriet Miers is to be on the Supreme Court!
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Dem. Bill Ritter has raised almost 1/2 million for his Gubernatorial race. Not a big name outside of Denver, yet. Other Dems are not far behind. Beauprez and Holtzman continue their mud slinging which is typical Republican strategy but this time,perhaps Coloradans will wake up and notice the rhetoric of hate has stopped at the capitol since the Dems took the majority as they make progress in solving our real problems that grew worse under the neocons.
Check the Denver Post 2-B this morning 10-12-05. Democrat State Representative Gary Lindstrom from Breckenridge is considering running for gov. He is pro-choice, unlike Ritter.
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