Colorado Governor Vetoes Toll Road Accountability Bill
Just when the grassroots make progress, the special interests swoop down and overturn any effort at transparency and accountability with our tax dollars. The big money wants these P3 rip-offs and they know public scrutiny will KILL them.
Colorado Governor Vetoes Toll Road Accountability Bill
Veto by Colorado governor preserves secrecy when negotiating long-term toll road contracts.
The Newspaper.com
June 9, 2014
Critics of long-term toll road contracts complain that they are often negotiated in secrecy by unaccountable bureaucrats, cutting the public out of the process entirely. Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper (D) is not among those who see any problem with the way things are done. On Wednesday he put his veto pen to Senate Bill 14-197, the Transportation Enterprise Transparency Act, ensuring the status quo.
"We firmly believe that government should always strive to be transparent and accountable," Hickenlooper wrote in his veto message. "Unfortunately, SB 14-197 is not just a transparency bill -- it also inappropriately constrains the business terms of future P3 [public-private partnership] agreements."