Colorado: Rollie Heath

March 9, 2009 - 05:02 pm

5280 Loves It Some Freshman Legislators

By Jeff Bridges

A few weeks late for Valentines day, but last Tuesday 5280 sent the literary equivalent of hand-delivered red carnations to four of its favorite freshman legislative crushes.

From the State Senate, the magazine noted Democrat Senator Rollie Heath's involvement with the repeal of Arveschoug-Bird - otherwise known as the ratchet effect. Senator Joyce Foster felt the love for her work reaching across the aisle to pass "a controversial pro-Israel resolution," winning near-unanimous approval. Republican Senator Mark Scheffel somehow managed to get a proposal to kill the state's business personal property tax passed out of committee, which certainly endears him to 5280 readers more than the

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February 21, 2009 - 05:26 pm

NEWS FEED: ColoradoPols.com

My lunch with Brandon & Rollie

By DavidThi808

Today I had the opportunity to have lunch with Senators Brandon Shaffer and Rollie Heath after a town meeting they just held. So I got them coming off of 2? hours of discussing what they are doing down at the legislature and answering questions. That worked really well as they were already focused on discussing their efforts down at the capitol.
Rollie mentioned up front that he gave everyone 5 minutes to speak and Brandon was the only one to live with that limit. I'm shocked, repeat shocked, that most of the politicians talked for longer than scheduled.

It started off with Brandon asking me about my blogging & my company.

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February 4, 2009 - 02:04 am

NEWS FEED: Denver Post

Incoming senator wants overhaul of TABOR as part of plan to boost economy

By John Ingold

An incoming state lawmaker on a legislative committee charged with boosting Colorado's sinking economy said Monday that the committee should look at overhauling the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights as part of its work.

Rollie Heath, a Boulder Democrat elected to the Senate, said that as lawmakers grapple in the coming session with cutting as much as $600 million from the budget because of declining revenues, they should also look at TABOR, a revenue-capping provision of the state's constitution.

The state is in a timeout from TABOR's tax-revenue limits, but that timeout expires in 2010, when Colorado will have to begin refunding to taxpayers any revenue it collects over TABOR's prescribed limit.

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Thu, 11/13/2008 - 17:52

Senate Dems name 2009 committee chairs

By Jeremy Pelzer, PolitickerCO.com Reporter

The Colorado Senate Democrats announced chair assignments for 10 state Senate committees on Thursday and seven of the 10 appointed Senators are new to the post.

State Sens. Jim Isgar (D-Durango), Paula Sandoval (D-Denver), and Jennifer Veiga (D-Denver) are the only committee chairs who will remain in their positions for next year.

2008 primary preview: State Senate races

By Jeremy Pelzer, PolitickerCO.com Reporter

With Primary Day being held tomorrow, PolitickerCO.com takes a look at the four competitive state Senate primary races in Colorado.

4th SENATE DISTRICT (Republicans)

OPEN SEAT: State Sen. Tom Wiens (R-Castle Rock) is not running for re-election

Candidates:

Rollie Heath tops $45,000 in fundraising, begins serious discussion with voters

By Megan Buerger

Rollie Heath, candidate for the Colorado Senate District 18, announced that his fundraising topped $45,000 three months into his campaign. Heath also has addressed his top priorities and campaign commitments to voters in an open letter posted on his web site.

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