Colorado: United States

About 150 people rallied on the West steps before heading inside the Capitol to find their assigned lawmakers and talk to them about bill, which is awaiting a vote in the Senate. The group of citizen lobbyists included mothers, high school students and activists.

Among them was Yamili, an 18-year-old high school student from Denver who said she doesn't qualify for in-state tuition because she came to the United States illegally with her parents about 10 years ago from Mexico. Yamili, who didn't give her last name because of her immigration status, said she has been accepted to private Regis University with a $12,000 scholarship but is applying for other scholarships to help her pay the tuition, which will be about $30,000 next year.

The proposed skier vanity plate and supporters, from left to right: Ari Stiller-Shulman, Sen. Dan Gibbs, Ski Country CEO Melanie Mills, and Brent Lessing (Hertz Corporation's Soutwest Region General Fleet Manager).

More people ski more days in Colorado than any other state, but there’s no clue of that out on the open road, unless you’re stuck in weekend skier traffic on Interstate 70.

The proposed skier vanity plate and supporters, from left to right: Ari Stiller-Shulman, Sen. Dan Gibbs, Ski Country CEO Melanie Mills, and Brent Lessing (Hertz Corporation's Soutwest Region General Fleet Manager).

A pair of ski-town lawmakers are out to change that with a ski-themed license plate that comes with the added bonus of earning about $50,000 a year in transportation funding to fix decrepit roads and bridges.

The unanimous support for state Democratic Party Chairwoman Pat Waak on Sunday was a far cry from her first election to that position four years ago, when the upstart eked by a sitting chairman with just four votes.

The central committee's resounding change of heart as Waak sought a third term came as no surprise.

The Democrats control both state legislative chambers and the governor's seat, just graduated two of their own to U.S. Senate positions, carried the state for President Barack Obama and registered 240,000 new Democrats in the process.

Waak said she can provide some continuity as party leaders work to bring new voters into the fold, and she credited her team of county chairs for the successful run.

According to a press release issued today (full release after the jump), U.S. Election Assistance Commission member Rosemary Rodriguez is resigning in order to take the job as Sen. Michael Bennet's State Director.

Rodriguez had tried unsuccessfully (and with much foot stomping) to be appointed to the U.S. Senate seat that Gov. Bill Ritter eventually gave to Bennet.

Commissioner Rodriguez Resigns
Transparency and Voter Access Hallmarks of her Tenure

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