CDOT to sell our roads without citizen approval.

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Can you read? The managed lane is an ADDITIONAL lane.

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Someone is not a morning person [mlp]

Public hearing today.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_25069820/public-invited-discuss-50-year-u-s-36

Crony capitalism. If it goes to a private company then there is a prohibition against the government building competing roads, such a provision applies to E470. What pisses me off is the state people never negotiate as tough as if it were a bond issuer or bank funding such a project, for example the stadiums.

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FYI "Friends of the Colorado PUC" is not contributed by Bloomberg or Obama its the Koch brothers along with energy company's A.K.A the D's worst enemy. Is it good information, no, not at all. Its big money looking for more money. This truly is a R response, even though it does not sound like it, to the D's. My guess is they are trying to get the boulderites up in arms and effectively so if you think it was a D's proposal.

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To turn the clock back 10 years on this abomination of a highway by turning it from a 3 and 2 lane to a 2 and 1 lane is a joke, did i paid for countless years of construction only to get charged again when i do not want to be in a traffic jam? I hope not because i feel money is owed to me for the next 50 years if it is.

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Someone is not a morning person [mlp]

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Is that a confession? [ROFL3]

Seriously, seeing the positions on their Wordpress page, the one thing "Friends of the Colorado PUC" aren't are friends of or shills for energy companies or capitalists like the Koch brothers. Just look at the snippets of these recent posts:

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ALEC & Xcel Scheming Behind Closed Doors?
Xcel Energy, an active member of the corporate lobbying organization the American Legislative Exchange Council through 2010, quit ALEC in 2011 to avoid negative publicity. The ALEC business model allows corporate lobbyists to pay $7,000 to $25,000 per year to write draft legislation behind closed doors with state lawmakers. State lawmakers then take the corporate lobbyist’s legislation back to the state…

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Are Rate Payer Dollars Being Wasted? Xcel Energy Urged to Stop Funding ALEC Attacks on Clean Energy For Immediate Release: Jan 13, 2014 Are Rate Payer Dollars Being Wasted? Xcel Energy Urged to Stop Funding ALEC Attacks on Clean Energy via Trade Association Front, EEI (Download Media Release as PDF) Publicly Xcel says it values sustainability and renewable energy. A key question for the state of Colorado is- Are Colorado rate…

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Is that a confession? [ROFL3]

Seriously, seeing the positions on their Wordpress page, the one thing "Friends of the Colorado PUC" aren't are friends of or shills for energy companies or capitalists like the Koch brothers. Just look at the snippets of these recent posts:

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I worked for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in 1994 drafting model legislation and talking points. It was sure a nice alternative to the government funded left leaning National Coalition of State Legislatures (NCSL).

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Is that a confession? [ROFL3]

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Seriously, seeing the positions on their Wordpress page, the one thing "Friends of the Colorado PUC" aren't are friends of or shills for energy companies or capitalists like the Koch brothers. Just look at the snippets of these recent posts:

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I looked at the Coloradopols article where i got that info and they where describing ALEC.... Guess i's don't read so wells [gohome]

470 is leased to private company to pay off debt.

Toll lane for HWY 91 in CA to Riverside was owned by Level3communication in Broomfield about 13-15 years ago.