Marostica goes “rogue”
According to the Rocky Mountain News, State Representative Don Marostica “has gone rogue and will attempt to do away with a decades-old spending limit without any support from his party.”
As if lifting the 6 percent spending limit isn’t bad enough, Marosita doesn’t even think voters should have a say in it. Today, Marositca and Democrat Senator John Morse of Colorado Springs will introduce legislation “to remove the 6 percent general-fund spending limit, known as Arveschoug-Bird, that has been in place since 1991.”
Republican party leadership says that if Marostica goes forward, he does so at his own peril. According to the Rocky, Marostica fired back “that legislative leaders are being influenced by ‘has- beens’ and ‘losers’ within the party and that he is going ahead with his efforts.”
Apparently when Marostica used the terms “losers” and “has-beens” he was referring to my boss Independence Institute President Jon Caldara and my friend and former state treasurer Mark Hillman.
It’s my opinion that Marositca is off the reservation and has been for a while. I was working with him on transparency. At the end of December things began to change. After the Governor gave Marostica credit for transparency, Marsotica pulled the legislation without telling the bill’s co-sponsor Senator Mike Kopp.
According to my sources, when newly appointed State Rep BJ Nikkel decided to bring back the legislation, Marostica threatened her politically, including to “severely embarrass” her both on the floor of the state house and in Northern Colorado. Notice that Marostica was one of only a handful of republican state representatives that did not support Nikkel’s bi-partisan legislation. Perhaps pride is more important than respect for taxpayers.
Marostica may want to be governor, but the best line I heard came from a prominent republican “Marostica is the only one who doesn’t know he could never win a primary.”
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