Term Limits Violator

Peter Blake quotes me in his column in today’s Rocky Mountain News, as he revisits a topic that this blog first addressed in March: Whether Colorado Senate President Joan Fitz-Gerald is able to run for another term under the state’s term limits law.

Secretary of State Donetta Davidson has asked Attorney General John Suthers for an opinion on the whole issue after her initial ruling was met with mass confusion.

I opined in an earlier posting that two years for a House member should be the same as two years for a Senate member. Sen. Fitz-Gerald and I were sworn in on the exact same days in 2001 and 2003.

Davidson ruled that it didn’t add up as two years for the Senator and because of that, Fitz-Gerald was in a position to seek an additional four-year term.

Hopefully, the Attorney General will feel differently, and determine that two years is two years, for both Houses of the Legislature.