With voters on Tuesday painting, both chambers of the legislature blue and the election of Democrat Jared Polis to the governor’s mansion, state Rep. KC Becker said the de facto veto power the oil and gas industry has held over proposed regulatory bills via the GOP-controlled Senate is now gone.
Becker, selected last week as Democrats’ next speaker of the Colorado House, said her message to the oil and gas industry for the upcoming legislative session is simple and direct:
“Let’s get real, guys.” “I’m not looking to drive out the industry from the state, but we have to respond to the need of communities so they feel safer,” said Becker, who was one of the only Democratic officials to back Prop 112.
“If we don’t do something at the legislature in the next two years, the issue will be back (at the ballot box) and with a greater level of funding.”
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