The Denver Post: Senate President Steve Fenberg seemed genuinely surprised Wednesday in a committee hearing by the backlash to his bill adding exemptions to open meetings laws for state lawmakers.

But he should have known his legislation, as drafted, goes way too far.

If this becomes law, for example, an entire committee could meet a week before the session begins to discuss a hypothetical bill they are likely to hear in the next session, hammer out the details of that bill, and not violate the open meeting laws. The official committee meeting a few weeks later to discuss the bill in public — now that it has been introduced and is “public business” — would be a sham.

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