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Mount Virtus (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
In today’s Rocky Mountain News, Colorado Democrat pollster Floyd Ciruli takes a cold, analytical look at Gov. Bill Ritter’s approval ratings — boiled down, the picture isn’t pretty for the potential one-term governor: Surprisingly, new Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter may be in trouble. When compared with his Montana counterpart, Gov. Brian Schweitzer, in recent Rasmussen polls,...
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Mount Virtus (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The times sure have changed for Gov. Bill Ritter. Back in September 2007, two separate polls placed the governor’s approval ratings — in one case, those who believed he was doing an “excellent” or “good” job — around 70 percent: Ritter’s spokesman said the governor has earned his high approval ratings by taking on renewable energy, [...]
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Steam Powered Opinions (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Pols points us to a new Rasmussen Poll , A new poll shows 41 percent of Coloradans say Gov. Bill Ritter is doing a "good" or "excellent" job, a 13-point slip from May that comes after Ritter was getting high marks since his election in 2006. Rasmussen Reports polls, the latest of which was released Tuesday, show Ritter's job-approval rating dropping each month since May,...
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Mile High Delphi (Free subscription) | yesterday
... weeks ago. A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows that the percentage of Coloradans that rate Governor Bill Ritter as either doing a "good" or "excellent" job has slipped by 13 points since May. The poll seems to be flawed in that it doesn't just ask if you approve or disapprove of the Governor's job. Instead it had many more options. The analysis from later in the Denver Post story seems...
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ColoradoPols.com - Front Page (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Not so fast, as the Denver Post reports: A new poll shows 41 percent of Coloradans say Gov. Bill Ritter is doing a "good" or "excellent" job, a 13-point slip from May that comes after Ritter was getting high marks since his election in 2006. Rasmussen Reports polls, the latest of which was released Tuesday, show Ritter's job-approval rating dropping each month since May,...
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Mount Virtus (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
After his recent Arctic show cruise with numerous liberal elites, Gov. Bill Ritter said he “improved his knowledge of climate change and reinforced his belief that his environmental policies at home are the right ones.” Our governor picked some miserably bad timing that only makes him look sillier. As Joshua Sharf points out, the widely reputed [...]
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NewWest.Net Boulder (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
It was surprising to see Govs. Bill Ritter and Jon Huntsman show up yesterday in downtown Denver. Usually it takes a natural disaster or a major fundraising opportunity to get two Western governors, of two separate parties, together in the same room. But Colorado's Ritter and Huntsman, of Utah, showed up at a press briefing at the offices of a big Denver law firm yesterday to mark...
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New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
It was surprising to see Govs. Bill Ritter and Jon Huntsman show up yesterday in downtown Denver. Usually it takes a natural disaster or a major fundraising opportunity to get two Western governors, of two separate parties, together in the same room. But Colorado's Ritter and Huntsman, of Utah, showed up at a press briefing at the offices of a big Denver law firm yesterday to mark...
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NewWest.Net Politics (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
It was surprising to see Govs. Bill Ritter and Jon Huntsman show up yesterday in downtown Denver. Usually it takes a natural disaster or a major fundraising opportunity to get two Western governors, of two separate parties, together in the same room. But Colorado's Ritter and Huntsman, of Utah, showed up at a press briefing at the offices of a big Denver law firm yesterday to mark...
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Colorado Media Matters (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
In a July 20 article about the efforts of Gov. Bill Ritter's (D) energy office to gain power utilities' participation "in a plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 20 percent by 2020," The Denver Post quoted the criticism of Stan Lewandowski, general manager of the Intermountain Rural Electric Association (IREA), that the Colorado Climate Action Plan represents "economic and quality-of-life...
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Denver Post (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
... utilities said they would participate, the state's largest power cooperative is giving Gov. Bill Ritter and his staff the cold shoulder. "We've just told them that we don't want to go to your meeting and we don't want to participate in your process," said Stan Lewandowski, general manager of Intermountain Rural Electric Association, which serves 137,000 customers in 10 counties. He...
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New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Source: Lexology, July 24, 2008. Colorado - Colorado broadens ban on sexual orientation discrimination Jackson Lewis LLP "Colorado Governor Bill Ritter has signed into law a controversial bill prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination in public accommodations, union membership, housing, and a number of other commercial areas."
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
By Gargi Chakrabarty Gov. Bill Ritter and Sen. Ken Salazar blasted the Bush administration's latest move Tuesday to ease the way for commercial development of oil shale.
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Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... more than 70 percent publicly owned.Environmentalists, along with Colorado's Democratic governor, Bill Ritter, accused the Bush administration of rushing to develop oil shale at "bargain basement" rates, without accounting for its various impacts. High oil and natural gas prices have already caused a black gold rush in the West, with more than 100,000 traditional oil and gas wells...
