Colorado Civil Unions: Gov. Hickenlooper Announces Special Session To Readdress House's Killed Bills

[kentuck]

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An emotional Gov. John Hickenlooper held a press conference Wednesday afternoon announcing a special legislative session that would be used to readdress some of the bills that were killed by yesterday's House Republican leadership, including the high profile same-sex civil unions bill.

"I don't control the Senate or the House, you may have noticed that," the governor joked. "But I can try to channel the energy of the people of Colorado." And Hickenlooper intends to do that by holding a special session where the House will have a chance to call the civil unions bill--and several others related to safety, the economy and unemployment the governor suggested--as soon as Monday or Friday.

When the press conference got started, Hickenlooper appeared jovial at first, but he quickly, and briefly, became choked up when he began to talk about civil unions. He recalled a call he received, presumably from a civil unions supporter, asking him, "If not now, when?" Hickenlooper, who has been vocal about his support for civil unions and called for a civil unions bill to be passed during his State of the State address in January, spoke candidly throughout the conference. At one point, the governor even said emphatically that sexual orientation is not a choice.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/09/colorado-civil-unions-gov_n_1504059.html

[freshwest]

1. And if not now, why not?

[intheflow]

2. I'm proud to have him as my governor today.

Wish he supported the civil liberties of Occupy Denver as strongly. But this is a momentous thing for him to do.