Polis Backroom Deal Leaves Unanswered Questions

Press Release

Today buffalo rancher and successful business leader Bob Beauprez responded to the backroom deal announced between John Hickenlooper and the wealthy Jared Polis and their joint announcement regarding the anti-job, anti-energy ballot measures backed by Polis.

"Weeks ago I called on John Hickenlooper to join me in a unified, bipartisan effort to stop this madness. Instead, he's allowing extreme uncertainty to continue to rock Colorado's job creators.

"Once again, John Hickenlooper is cutting backroom deals. Once again, he's kicking the can down the road. Once again, he's avoiding making a decision.

"John Hickenlooper's latest backroom deal leaves many unanswered questions. It's failed leadership once again, and Colorado deserves better."

Background

On July 9, the Denver Post reported that Bob Beauprez opposed a special session pushed by Hickenlooper regarding fracking and said the process would "force ill-advised policies on the people of our state without debate, deliberation, or discussion."
(Source: The Denver Post)

On July 13, the Colorado Springs Gazette published an op-ed by Bob Beauprez calling on John Hickenlooper to join him in "bipartisan, unified action" against an anti-job, anti-energy special session "or any grand bargain compromise."

"I believe that these job-killing proposals being pushed by Rep. Jared Polis present us with one of those moments, and it is in the spirit of bipartisan concern for the economic health of Colorado that I ask John Hickenlooper to join me in opposition to the basket full of proposed ballot measures, or any grand bargain compromise, which would hurt the state's economy, which is already sliding due to increased government regulation."
(Source: Colorado Springs Gazette)

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