Over the past two decades, Colorado lawmakers have enacted some of the harshest laws in the nation limiting the rights of everyday Coloradans. If you are badly injured due to the negligence of a business or company, you should be able to take that company to court and be fully compensated. But in Colorado, you can't. And if you or your child is a patient injured in an unsafe hospital, the restrictions on your rights are even more severe.
Just weeks after reducing a fine against the Larimer County Republican Party, Secretary of State Scott Gessler is helping the party host a fundraiser to pay down the penalty his office ultimately levied. The fundraiser will feature Gessler, a Republican who took office in January, sitting in a dunk tank so that local Republicans angry about the $15,700 fine can throw balls at a target and send him splashing downward.
During the recent election, Colorado's Supreme Court judges survived an attempt to oust them from office but now a new effort is underway to limit the justices to a mere two-year term.
The punchline for many late night comics and the common sneer against personal injury lawsuits. Everyone knows the McDonald's coffee case, even fifteen years after the accident. It has been routinely cited as an example of how broken is our legal system, even generating the "Stella Awards."
Prudential Financial sent in a $2 million donation last year as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce kicked off a national advertising campaign to weaken the historic rewrite of the nation's financial regulations. Dow Chemical delivered $1.7 million to the chamber last year as the group took a leading role in aggressively fighting proposed rules that would impose tighter security requirements on chemical facilities.
