Posted by
NOTLEGALROADKILLYET on Sunday, January 28, 2007 9:49:52 PM
It appears that the Denver Post has given up on derailing the Labor Peace Act, aka House Bill 1072, for Governor Bill Ritter. In fact, it now notes that "time is on his side." The article is "Union bill ticks off business" by Jeri Clausing and starts with a provocative statement:
Everyone knew it was going to happen. They just didn't expect it to happen this fast.
Well, not quite everyone "knew." In fact, the business community thought they had a moderate commitment to act moderately from candidate Bill Ritter. Perhaps the "everyone" Clausing refers to is the "everyone at the Denver Post."
It turns out that while Ritter was feeding businessmen a "moderate" baloney, he was telling his labor friends something entirely different:
The business community was unaware of Ritter's campaign-long commitment to support the labor bill.
It is likely that the business community was "unaware" because Ritter was keeping it a secret. The tactic reminds one of Bill Clinton at his best, doesn't it? Tell the people in the room not what you will do, but what you think they want you to do, what they want to hear.
The business community exploded, implying that the candidate who wooed them with a moderate pro-business agenda betrayed them by letting the bill rush through the House without any warning.
The word "implying" in this paragraph is easily my favorite word choice in the whole article. Based on what I'm reading (and reporting on) in both the Rocky Mountain News and in the Denver Post, the business community is doing much more than implying that Ritter back stabbed it. There is even talk of an initiative to make the state a right-to-work state.
I wonder what other surprises Governor Bill Ritter has up his sleeve for us that the Post will claim that "everyone" knew would happen.