Jared Polis is a putz who was manipulated by his own staff and a House lawmaker to sign a ridiculous bill forcing businesses to pay dues for producing recyclable materials.
Complete Colorado obtained a recording in which the scheme was bragged about to a bunch of public relations students.
The confessor and braggart was Democrat Lisa Cutter, the bill’s House sponsor, who is now running against Tim Walsh for the District 20 state Senate seat to replace Brittany Pettersen.
Cutter explained how Polis was planning to veto the bill until his own office plotted to launch a fake lobbying effort to make the legislation appear worthwhile and popular.
“The governor almost didn’t sign this because he was getting so much pressure from some businesses,” Cutter can be heard saying in an audio recording that was sent to Complete Colorado. “He was threatening to veto. So, his office, you know, quietly said. ‘Well, maybe we can get some other letters.’”
“They got hammered, flooded with emails sent in constituent communications,” she said. “So, they could say, ‘Listen, we’re getting a lot of public pressure.’”
The governor’s staffers also called in favors to pressure legislators in the faux lobbying scheme.
It’s an extraordinary admission by a lawmaker, admitting to falsifying a lobbying effort against the governor, who obviously fell for it as he changed his mind and signed it into law.
Read the rest of Cutter’s twisted sense of lying to legislate here on Complete Colorado.