2014 General Assembly readies for opening day
“Sonnenberg also intends to be a sponsor on another controversial holdover from 2013: the bill to grant eminent domain rights to oil pipeline companies.
As to whether the 2014 session will be a repeat of 2013, Sonnenberg said it could go one of two ways. “Democrats could back off their hard-driven agenda because of the recalls [in the Colorado Senate] and they may try to appear more moderate.” On the other hand, if Democrats fear they will lose either the House or Senate chamber, they may go through the rest of that agenda, he said.
Brophy, one of six Republicans vying for governor, agreed the 2014 session could go either way. Democrats could try to lay low and not do anything as extreme as last year, he said, or “they’ll correctly gauge that this is the last time they control the whole thing and get everything they can. We won’t know [which way] that will be until February,” he predicted.”
Goodland, Marianne. Journal Advocate 4 January 2014.