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Governing magazine honors Romanoff, Colorado’s “consensus-building speaker,” as a Public Official of |
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The consensus-building speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, Andrew Romanoff, is among the winners of GOVERNING ’s Public Official of the Year awards for 2008, given in recognition of outstanding achievement in state and local government.
(Washington, DC) - The consensus-building speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, Andrew Romanoff, is among the winners of GOVERNING ’s Public Official of the Year awards for 2008, given in recognition of outstanding achievement in state and local government. “These public officials each asked tough questions,” said Alan Ehrenhalt, GOVERNING’s executive editor, “and when they had their answers, they weren’t afraid to act. Their leadership has led to unexpected progress—from reduced blight on foreclosed properties to the exoneration of inmates who were wrongly convicted to the removal of unsafe cold medicines from the shelves. These officials prove that by asking sometimes painful questions, smart, dedicated people can change government for the better.” This year’s group of recipients is the fifteenth to be honored in GOVERNING’s annual awards program, which was launched in 1994. GOVERNING is an independent national magazine devoted to coverage of state and local government. It has a circulation of 85,000 state and local officials. Among GOVERNING’s 2008 Public Officials of the Year:
- Andrew Romanoff, speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, who built a bipartisan coalition to take on the politically risky task of overhauling a constitutional provision that was crippling the state budget. (biography and photographs available at www.coloradohouse.org)
The award winners are profiled in the November issue of GOVERNING and will be honored at a dinner November 12 in Washington, D.C., hosted by the magazine and by the corporate sponsors of the awards: CGI, CH2M Hill, Northrop Grumman, Oracle and Unisys. # # #
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