Some in Legislature Don't Want You Paying To Defend The Governors Tax/Mill Levy Increase; Miracles Do Happen Every Now and Then, We Saved $150,000

In a story I haven't really seen anyplace else, the Rocky Mountain News points out that in the last minutes of the budget bill an amendment was removed giving $150,000 to Governor Ritter's defense fund of the mill Levy/tax increase that he is presently fighting with private individuals in court.

Nice catch and good story here.

"Ritter had asked for $150,000 next year to pay attorneys to fight the suit. Attorney General John Suthers, who would normally represent the governor, can’t do it because he has already come out against the mill levy freeze.

Instead, lawmakers put the $150,000 into wildland firefighting efforts.

“I about fell over in the back there,” a smiling Sen. Josh Penry, R-Grand Junction, said afterward."