Re: “Partisan posturing trumps a better Colo.,” May 22 Perspective article.
Kudos to Henry Dubroff and John J. Huggins for their edifying appraisal of the political challenges facing Colorado and their compelling criticism of the politics that paralyze our collective management of them.
At the federal level, partisan tenacity by members of both political parties has contributed to the populist emergence of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. The establishment within both parties is paying the price for their own self-righteous intransigence.
State leaders best be mindful. As the authors admonish, “Our legislators are so busy protecting their political positions that they have outsourced the give and take of legislating to lawyers and lobbyists.” If our state legislators continue their partisan posturing, Colorado voters just might, at some point, respond with an electoral lashing of the establishment within both parties. At some point, painful as it might be, it will be well-deserved.
Marc A. Johnson, Denver
This letter was published in the May 29 edition.
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