Bill Ritter appoints bipartisan transition team
Governor-elect Bill Ritter has named a transition team that includes Republican Norma Anderson. Coloradolib readers may remember that Anderson resigned her State Senate seat in January. As Colorado Luis wrote at the time:
When I've argued with fellow Democrats about whether there are any reasonable people left in the Colorado Republican Party, Norma Anderson was always Exhibit A that there were. Not because she was necessarily a "moderate," although she did campaign on behalf of Referendum C last year, but because she earned a reputation for toughness on her own Republican side (where for a while she was the only female Senator) while also being known as someone Democrats could negotiate with in good faith.
Anderson's presence on Ritter's transition team is ironic, when you consider that it was her resignation that started the chain of events that ended with SD22 electing the "starboard-tilting Mike Kopp."
(Or maybe it's not ironic. Maybe it's just coincidental. Ever since that stupid Alanis Morrisette song, I can't tell them apart.)
When I've argued with fellow Democrats about whether there are any reasonable people left in the Colorado Republican Party, Norma Anderson was always Exhibit A that there were. Not because she was necessarily a "moderate," although she did campaign on behalf of Referendum C last year, but because she earned a reputation for toughness on her own Republican side (where for a while she was the only female Senator) while also being known as someone Democrats could negotiate with in good faith.
Anderson's presence on Ritter's transition team is ironic, when you consider that it was her resignation that started the chain of events that ended with SD22 electing the "starboard-tilting Mike Kopp."
(Or maybe it's not ironic. Maybe it's just coincidental. Ever since that stupid Alanis Morrisette song, I can't tell them apart.)
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Of course, what I didn't say in that post is that it was the people I was arguing with who were saying "You're wrong, Luis! Norma Anderson is a responsible Republican!" I think they were proven right.
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