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Colorado: Jack Taylor

January 30, 2009 - 04:05 am
NEWS FEED: Rocky Mountain News

ROLL CALL: Senator blames Dems for stolen bike

'THEY STOLE MY BIKE,

DEMMIT!'

First the Democrats killed his bills, then they stole his bike.

At least that's how Sen. Greg Brophy sees it. He swears a Democrat pilfered his "beater" bike, chained up on 18th Street in downtown Denver on Wednesday night. After all, he said, it's a Democratic town.

"This wouldn't have happened in Wray. This is Hickenlooper's fault," BrophyDOWN said, only slightly tongue-in- cheek, referring to Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper.

"I bet whoever took my bike voted for Obama."

Someone reminded Brophy that Republicans voted for Barack Obama. Change and all that.

TWEETS FROM THE FRONT LINE

"I'm twittering now from the Capitol, things like, 'Those Democrats just killed another gun bill.

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Thu, 09/04/2008 - 08:59

Taylor: White 'odds-on guy' to keep JBC seat if elected to state Senate

By Jeremy Pelzer, PolitickerCO.com Reporter

State Sen. Jack Taylor (R-Steamboat Springs) said Wednesday that if state Rep. Al White (R-Hayden) will likely stay on the Joint Budget Committee if wins Taylor's seat in Senate District 8 this November.

White currently is the lone Republican state House member on the six-member super-committee, which is in charge of writing the annual appropriations bill. With Democrats controlling both houses of the state legislature, the committee is composed of two Democrats and one Republican from both the state House and Senate.

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