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I just called Gov. Ritter's office to again urge him to veto HB 07-1376, was told he'd signed it yesterday. Maybe it won't do too much harm to our wonderful Colorado neighborhood caucus system. This morning I got this email from my friend Peter Blake:

Thanks for writing, John. I appreciate the kind words. I'm taking some time off but hope to resume writing for somebody before too long on a freelance basis..
I certainly will continue to play baseball. Caught nine innings yesterday, in fact.
I'm afraid I would have to disagree with you about caucus dates. Political parties are private organizaitons and the Supreme Court long ago said that their rules can supersede state law. If the parties want to have separate dates, that's OK. The caucus system is fine but people won't come unless they think the vote they cast there will have some effect. And until the parties set up an instant reporting system a la Iowa they won't resume coming.
Of course the earlier and earlier front-loaded primaries are so screwed up now that Colorado will have no impact whatever on the presidential race no matter when the caucuses are.
Cheers!

This is my email to Peter last week, had an attachement of my letter to Gov Ritter encouraging him to veto 1376:

I just got my first bounced email from you telling me that you are no longer with the Rocky.

Thanks for all the great years of covering Colorado politics. Colorado is much better because of you.

What will you be doing now?

Thought you might be interested in the bounced email, see below.

Please let me know if there is anything I can do to be helpful to you. Will you still be playing baseball?

John Wren