Posted by
NOTLEGALROADKILLYET on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 10:00:03 PM
I went to the Colorado State House to testify in favor of HB 1227, a really minor change to how judicial performance commissions are nominated. Among other things, equally minor, it would have prevented the Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court from naming three members of her own commission.
It was a Republican Bill with about ten folks testifying for it and one against it. The one against was a Colorado Bar Association representative. With the exception of Boulder Democrat Claire Levy, the Democratic members appeared uninterested in the proceedings.
Levy was obviously hostile to the bill, and I will be writing about her in a few days. At one point, she tried to put words in my mouth in an attempt to discredit me. I'm quite confident that I didn't say that I opposed any elected official appoint commission members, which would be rediculous.
I thought the bill was a good government bill, so I was more than a little surprised that most of the junior Democrats, except Levy, were uninterested in the testimony. When it came time to vote, they were lock step against it.
Today's exercise was good for several essays, but I need to troll the Denver papers, so that is all for tonight.
I almost forgot to mention that I met several loyal readers of this blog there.