Colorado Spending Transparency

According to Face the State, Governor Bill Ritter today plans to sign HB 1288 the Colorado Taxpayer Transparency Act, which creates a state expenditure and revenue database, in private.  Or will he?  Sources tell COST that the Governor still is struggling with this legislation – apparently not enough to veto it.  Despite his embrace of transpareny in his annual state-of-the-state speech, bill sponsor Rep. BJ Nikkel says the Governor tried to kill this overwhelmingly bi-partisan legislation.  It seems the Governor’s office doesn’t know his schedule today because it can’t tell Rep. Nikkel when the signing will be — keeping her and the public in the dark.  This isn’t the first time politics has come into play in a bill signing.