Dan Hopkins
Dan Hopkins
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The governor is pleased to see the legislature arrive to a consensus on a smoking ban that seems to be supported by most people throughout Colorado.
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The governor has no involvement one way or the other. There's been no interaction with the petroleum marketers or the state agency that regulates gasoline or with legislators.
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The Governor felt it was very important to assure that future governors and future legislatures would have the ability to consider options such as private investment in our highway system. The language proposed for this year's bill protects that option while also protecting property owners.
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The governor believes the salaries have not been raised in eight years and should be adjusted from time to time.
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The governor believes that private toll roads will be important to the state in the coming years, and it is critical that such options be available to the future.
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The governor, after any major incident, always plans a debriefing. Those wheels were in motion actually several days ago, when we started the entire operation of Safe Haven.
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This will be very helpful as negotiations continue to solve this critical problem.
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If the congressman had been here, he'd see a very smooth, unified operation. When you can have this response to this type of incident, it certainly shows the state is ready for any large-scale incident. The planning has been extensive. We're ready, and we learn from incidents like this to be even better.
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If the bill returns to the same form it was in last year, the governor will veto it again.
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The process will take as much time as the process needs. CDOT officials and federal officials will run the process as they see fit.
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The real issue will be how the state will fund the improvements. That decision will be made long after Governor Owens leaves office.
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He doesn't feel it is a constitutional crisis. It is a disagreement that he will work to resolve.
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There is agreement over every dollar that is in there.
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Future new highways likely would not have been built had the language not been changed. For the Governor, this wasn't an argument about Super Slab, this was an argument about future transportation.