All Positive Week on a roll: Carroll and HB1149

You know, at first I was kind of worried about my first ever All Positive, All the Time Week. What if there was nothing positive to report? What if politics really is all about cynical pandering? And if positive stuff did happen, what if I was just too big a jackass to write about it?

Well, I shouldn't have worried. In fact, this has been the easiest week of blogging I've ever had. The posts just write themselves.

I was away from my computer all day and now my inbox is filled with story ideas. CD1 representative Diana DeGette stood up for consumers by voting against a handout to big oil. The Colorado Consumer Health Initiative was celebrating the healthcare bills passed this session by the Democratic legislature. CD7 candidate Herb Rubenstein was sticking up for the planned Veterans Hospital at Fitzsimons.

The list goes on like that for awhile.

But the best news of all might have been that Governor Bill Owens has signed HD36 Democratic representative Morgan Carroll's HB1149. This is a big victory for anyone who thinks voters, not lobbyists, should control our legislature. Way to go, Morgan!