Editorial: A sad time for transparency

The Daily Sentinel: Some consistency please.

Gov. Jared Polis was quick to cite “the will of voters” in making wolf reintroduction in Colorado adhere to a strict, voter-approved timeline.

But the will of voters as defined by a 1972 initiative establishing the state’s open-meetings law? No big deal. With the stroke of a pen, he allowed the General Assembly to exempt itself from parts of the voter-approved law that legislators found onerous.

Now lawmakers are free to meet privately in “sub-quorum” groups to talk about whatever they want — backscratching deals, trading votes, policy preferences — without any public notice or record of what was discussed.

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