Bill Ritter News

Gov. Bill Ritter continues to face opposition from unions as his re-election campaign picks up.

As we FINALLY close out Election 2008, we also have the second FEC filing deadline for 2010 .

GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis seized the opportunity to blast the state law that blocks Fort Carson's expansion in PiA on Canyon - and indirectly fired shots at Sen.

Colorado's governor is taking a turn conducting Utah's famous Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

Gov. Bill Ritter, facing a growing budget shortfall and a difficult re-election bid next year, offered a stark new plan to cut state spending across the board to fill the projected $384 million hole in next year's budget.

Gov. Bill Ritter today directed his Cabinet members to submit plans and ideas on how to reduce their budgets by 10 percent.

Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter will speak Thursday on the state's efforts to close a $249 million shortfall in the final days of the budget year.

Josh Penry is expected to run for governor next year. State Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry ripped Democratic spending Wednesday but also let loose on fellow Republicans in a speech that signals what may come on the campaign trail.

Advocating a return to solid party principles, Colorado Republican Party Vice Chair Leondray Gholston rallied party faithful Tuesday night in a call for action at all levels of government.

Union members spent much of the day hounding Gov. Bill Ritter as he attended high-dollar fund-raisers here, hoping to hit the Democrat where it hurts as he gears up for re-election in 2010.

As expected, the state is still facing an estimated $249 million budget shortfall for the current budget that ends next Tuesday.

The state is $250 million in the hole for the fiscal year that ends next week and will have to borrow money from next year's budget to pay the bills.

GOP WANTS BONUSES TRACKED, ANNOUNCED: Colorado Republicans are calling on Gov. Bill Ritter to track and announce any bonuses that have been granted under his administration's watch.

So Bill Owens was Colorado's first green governor. Who knew? The revelation surfaced this week from a most unlikely source: a press release from our current governor, Bill Ritter - although Ritter's publicity team did its best to obscure the neon punch line.

DENVER, Colo. - Republicans at the state Capitol are demanding to know the names of every elected or appointed state official who sent discretionary bonuses to staff members at the end of a four-month legislative session dominated by efforts to trim more than $1 billion from the state budget.

Colorado's Bill Ritter, a Democrat, is a typical swing-state governor in these most atypical times: overly cautious, predictably equivocal - you know the type.

Memo from David Kenney to staff: Quit visiting blogs and posting anonymous comments that praise or defend Gov.

A newspaper advertisement that commends Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter for pushing biotech industries rankled a Republican lawmaker who says he thinks the piece should have been labeled a campaign ad.

Members of Colorado's Republican Party were quick to criticize Gov. Bill Ritter's June 8 appointment of Don Elliman, the head of his Office of Economic Development and International Trade, as Colorado's first Chief Operating Officer.

Gov. Bill Ritter plans to deliver the keynote address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars state convention.