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Hopefully we see more like this. But also, as a Coloradoan, just wanna say I appreciate Polis for giving time to real legislation. I know now everyone loves him, he is a politician after all, but you gotta love a Gov. who doesn't exist solely to posture for the extreme half of his/her base.


When he was still a congressman, I met him when he showed up unannounced to meeting night at a hackerspace I was involved with. I thought it was cool that he was making an effort to get out to meet and hang out with people he represented. Real genuine guy. He takes his job seriously.


I have to say my biggest criticism of Polis is his asinine opinions on Pueblo chile being superior to Hatch


Here in Pueblo there are a lot of "closet" Hatch chili people ;-)

Seriously though, I think Polis has done a good job and he's the rare politician who can understand the implications of the right-to-repair law.

When I was teaching Comp Sci at the high school level and we got a bunch of refurbished computers from his foundation ( http://www.jaredpolisfoundation.org/ ).

The desktops came with bare-bone Windows and a bunch of open source applications. Of course we put Linux on all of them anyway, but most people back then would have NOT known how to use a Linux box, so the setup they came with was understandable.


We should be so lucky that our politicians' biggest fault is poor taste in chiles... :)


Its pretty "sus" if you ask me. What else are they doing? Putting mayonnaise in their sopaipillas? ;)

híjole!




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