Democrat-controlled Colorado already has done Barack Obama’s bidding by passing draconian limits on the Second Amendment, imposing same-sex civil unions on voters who rejected it and boosting the abortion industry.
Now Democrats are advancing the White House’s green-energy agenda, which establishes a double standard for urban and rural consumers.
Gov. John Hickenlooper signed a bill that has been criticized as a benefit to the environmentalist lobby at the expense of rural residents.
“With the signing of the ‘Rural Foreclosure Relocation Act’ the governor is subsidizing special interests in the environmental lobby on the backs of rural Coloradans who already [are] experiencing unemployment rates nearly twice the national average,” said State Rep. Lori Saine, R-Dacono.
Democrats in the statehouse previously admitted that Vice President Joe Biden had pressed them to pass severe limits on guns without any support from the GOP.
In the last hours of the session, Democrats rammed through another bill without any input from Republican lawmakers. SB 252 requires rural electric utilities to get 20 percent of their electricity from renewable resources by 2020 while urban utilities in cities such as Denver and Boulder are required to get only 10 percent……“Make no mistake about it, this is an attack on rural Colorado,” Saine said. “Municipal utilities are exempt while our Rural Electric Associates are required to double their renewable energy requirements in the next few years.....To Read More.....
My Take - Is it any wonder there is a movement within Colorado for the rural areas to secede from the rest of the state?
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