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<div><div class="thedate" style="float: left; color: rgb(82, 82, 82); width: 650px; padding: 10px 0px; text-indent: 155px; margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 0.85em; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/2014/06/23" style="color: rgb(57, 84, 122); text-decoration: none;">June 23, 2014</a>, 3:55 pm</div><h1 style="width: 483px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 155px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1.9em; line-height: 1.2; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Former govs Roy Romer and Bill Owens team up to fight oil-and-gas measures</h1><div id="post-110317" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="sidebar" style="float: left; width: 141px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="authortopper" style="width: 141px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em;"><div class="theauthor" style="padding-top: 10px; float: left; display: inline; border-top-width: 2px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(57, 84, 122); width: 141px;"><span class="postauthor">By <a href="http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/author/lynn-bartels/" title="Posts by Lynn Bartels" class="url fn" rel="author" style="color: rgb(57, 84, 122); text-decoration: none;">Lynn Bartels</a></span></div><div class="bytitle" style="font-style: italic; float: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 10px;">The Denver Post</div>
</div><div class="relatedtopicstopper" style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-weight: bold; padding: 3px 0px; margin: 20px 0px 5px; border-top-width: 2px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(57, 84, 122); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-transform: uppercase; text-indent: 5px; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 249);">TOPICS</div><div class="relatedtopics" style="margin-left: 5px;"><a href="http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/topic/bill-owens/" rel="tag" style="color: rgb(57, 84, 122); text-decoration: none;">Bill Owens</a>,<a href="http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/topic/colorado-concern/" rel="tag" style="color: rgb(57, 84, 122); text-decoration: none;">Colorado Concern</a>,<a href="http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/topic/hispanic-chamber-of-commerce-of-metro-denver/" rel="tag" style="color: rgb(57, 84, 122); text-decoration: none;">Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metro Denver</a>, <a href="http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/topic/jared-polis/" rel="tag" style="color: rgb(57, 84, 122); text-decoration: none;">Jared Polis</a>, <a href="http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/topic/kelly-brough/" rel="tag" style="color: rgb(57, 84, 122); text-decoration: none;">Kelly Brough</a>,<a href="http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/topic/protect-colorado/" rel="tag" style="color: rgb(57, 84, 122); text-decoration: none;">Protect Colorado</a>,<a href="http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/topic/roy-romer/" rel="tag" style="color: rgb(57, 84, 122); text-decoration: none;">Roy Romer</a>, <a href="http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/topic/tamra-ward/" rel="tag" style="color: rgb(57, 84, 122); text-decoration: none;">Tamra Ward</a></div><div class="clear" style="width: 141px; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="storycontent" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; width: 495px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 155px; border-top-width: 2px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(57, 84, 122); padding-top: 10px; line-height: 1.4em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="ndn_embed ndn_embedContainer ndn-widget-embed-1 ndn_embedding ndn-widget-embed-3" id="ndn-video-player-1" data-config-distributor-id="90115" data-config-height="9/16w" style="width: 495px;"><p style="font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 1.4;">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6q06nWfqDU&w=495&h=301]</p><p style="font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 1.4;">Two former Colorado governors, Democrat Roy Romer and Republican Bill Owens, have teamed up to fight oil-and-gas ballot measures that critics say would cripple Colorado’s economy.</p><p style="font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 1.4;">“We’ve got some of the toughest regulations and enforcement you’ll find anywhere,” Owens says, in a new campaign ad.</p><p style="font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 1.4;">“Environmentalists can turn Colorado into a national model,” Romer responds, “not by banning fracking but by making it as good as we can.”</p><p style="font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 1.4;">Owens and Romer star in one of two ads that debuted Monday from Protect Colorado, the issue committee formed to fight the ballot measures, which deal with setbacks, local control and other issues surrounding fracking and drilling.</p><p style="font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 1.4;">“We believe these ads will resonate with Coloradans because they show political leaders reaching across the aisle to find pragmatic, workable solutions, as well as business and civic leaders who understand the crucial role oil and natural gas plays in driving our economy,” said Karen Crummy, spokeswoman for Protect Colorado.</p><p style="font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 1.4;"><span id="more-110317" /></p><p style="font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 1.4;">The other ad features Tamra Ward, President & CEO of Colorado Concern; Kelly Brough, CEO of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce; and Diedra Garcia, President & CEO of Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metro Denver.</p><p style="font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 1.4;">The ads are airing statewide on network and cable TV and radio, as well as on Spanish stations, Crummy said.</p><p style="font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 1.4;">Colorado’s battle over stricter regulations for fracking and oil-and-gas has led to Supreme Court appeals, talk of <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_25936162/hickenlooper-pushes-oil-and-gas-compromise-bill-says" target="blank" style="color: rgb(57, 84, 122);">a special legislative session</a>and have attracted <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_25743740/colorado-energy-measures-expected-attract-big-names-deep" target="blank" style="color: rgb(57, 84, 122);">national attention and money</a>. Nine of the measures were written with the help of U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, who got involved when a drilling operation went up across from his vacation home. Three of the proposals are counter measures.</p><blockquote style="border-left-width: 5px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 20px 15px; padding-left: 15px; font-size: 1em;"><p style="font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 1.4;"><strong style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 20px;">Here’s the script for the ad “Former Governors:”</strong></p><p style="font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 1.4;">Romer: “Natural gas helps reduce our carbon footprint. We need natural gas and fracking helps us get it.</p><p style="font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 1.4;">Owens: “It’s tried and true. Fracking has a 60-year-track record here. We’ve got some of the toughest regulations and enforcement you’ll find anywhere.”</p><p style="font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 1.4;">Romer: “Environmentalists can turn Colorado into a national model, ot by banning fracking but by making it as good as we
can.”</p><p style="font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 1.4;">Owens: “Agreed, Roy. It’s time for all of us to come together on fracking. It really works for Colorado.”</p></blockquote><p style="font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 1.4;"><strong style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 20px;">Here’s the script and the ad for “Women Leaders:”</strong></p><p style="font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 1.4;">Ward: We shouldn’t have to choose between our economy and the environment.</p><p style="font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 1.4;">Coloradans have a long history of coming together to find solutions.</p><p style="font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 1.4;">Brough: And that’s just what we’re doing, working together, producing clean natural gas, protecting our environment and securing our economic future.</p><p style="font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 1.4;">Garcia: The truth is we all benefit from fracking. It creates thousands of jobs, takes us closer to energy independence, and puts hundreds of millions of dollars into our communities.</p><p style="font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 1.4;">Ward: We can have the energy we need, the environment we love and the economy we deserve.</p><p style="font-size: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 1.4;">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrCNOIknnD0&w=495&h=278]</p></div></div><div>
<div><div class="print-content"><div id="node-634431" class="node node-story view-mode-print clearfix" about="/story/35688/america%27s_worst_governors" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document" style="position: relative;"><div class="headline"><h1 property="dc:title" datatype="" class="node-title"><font size="4">America's Worst Governors</font></h1></div><div class="the_body body_news-politics clearfix"><div class="big_story_tools_bottom_container"><div class="authors_signup"><div class="talk_box"><span class="small" /></div><div class="clear"> </div></div><div class="clear"> </div><div class="story_tools_bottom"><div class="text-size"><div class="story_tools_email"><div class="story_tools_print"><div class="story_tools_share"><div style="clear: left;"><div class="story-date"><em><span class="field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-hidden"><span class="field-items"><span class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2006-05-02T21:00:01-07:00">May 2, 2006</span></span></span></span> </em> |  </div>The story of American democracy is one of heroes and disappointments. Every day in this great nation, elected leaders make their constituents proud by fighting for democracy, working families, and American families. And then there are the disappointments: the elected officials who play politics with people's lives and shill for special interests.

Here are three of America's worst.

<b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Colorado: Bill Owens</b>

Colorado's Bill Owens is wrapping up his final legislative session. It must be a bittersweet period. Although Owens was <a href="http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_16_54/ai_90570238" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">once hailed as the leading light</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[2]</span> of the GOP by no less an authority than <i>National Review</i> (by the second paragraph, they glowingly write of his<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> principled decision to drink Coors beer because of the Coors' families support of Contras)</span>, his political future has been <a href="http://markschmitt.typepad.com/decembrist/2005/11/norquists_parad.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">declared over</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[3]</span> by Grover Norquist, the well-known anti-tax activist and good friend of Jack Abramoff. What mess does Colorado have left to clean up? Let's take a look.

<b>Placing workers last:</b> Owens <a href="http://www.soapblox.net/colorado/showDiary.do;jsessionid=1F7554F854F1322BC45B412A06EF212F?diaryId=988" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">vetoed a series of bills</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[4]</span> passed by Colorado's progressive legislature designed to protect workers. Among the bills were measures to ensure that workers locked out of their jobs during contract negotiations are eligible for unemployment insurance, to increase penalties for employers that fail to pay "wages owed to a terminated employee," and a bill to give employees access to their own personnel files.

<b>Local control of schools? That depends:</b> While Norquist lost his patient with Owens over a little moderation on spending caps, spending is not the only issue where Owens shows inconsistency.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> While he demanded a policy this legislative session that would punish schools that failed to comply with state law regarding flags, he also <a href="http://www.soapblox.net/colorado/showDiary.do;jsessionid=1F7554F854F1322BC45B412A06EF212F?diaryId=1342" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">vetoed a bill</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[5]</span> requiring school vending machines include healthful snacks</span>. His argument? The bill "micromanages school districts and their policies."

<b>Academic rightwing Bill:</b> Governor Owens and other conservative leaders in Colorado met with rightwing hack <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">David Horowitz </span>to discuss the so-called "<a href="http://collegefreedom.blogspot.com/2003/09/conservative-correctness-in-colorado.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Academic Bill of Rights</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[6]</span>," a proposal to <a href="http://www.freeexchangeoncampus.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4&Itemid=5" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">steep public universities</a><span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[7]</span> in political control and fear. Horowitz's proposal has been nearly universally rejected, but Colorado was the first state to consider a legislative proposal. College Presidents kept it at bay by agreeing to "monitor their own institutions and report back to the Legislature." Somehow academic freedom involves legislative accountability. We can only imagine that in Bill Owens' America, free speech will also require government review.

Spending cap stop-gap: You want to know how hard it is to keep the far right happy? Ask Owens. After living with Colorado's experiment in spending caps for 13 years, virtually everyone had enough. The business community was on board to raise money to let the state government spend more money. That's how dire the situation was. When Governor Owens <a href="http://markschmitt.typepad.com/decembrist/2005/11/norquists_parad.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">joined in to support</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[3]</span> compromise reform, he got immediately ostracized by the national conservativement movement, despite the fact that <a href="http://www.progressnowaction.org/page/community/post_group/ProgressNowStaff/C3DS" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">his version of reform</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[8]</span> failed to go far enough to actually solve Colorado's fiscal crisis.

<b>Maryland: Robert Ehrlich</b>

Governor Robert Ehrlich may be best known nationally for <a href="http://baltimore.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2005/05/30/daily18.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">vetoing Maryland's recent Fair Share Health Care</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[9]</span> bill, but his shameful record did not begin there and is unlikely to end there. In fact, there's a good chance that Governor Ehrlich will continue to be an embarassment as long as he remains in office.

<b>Picking employers over employees:</b> Governor Ehrlich has racked up an amazing anti-worker record. In May of 2005, he <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/20/AR2005052000862.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">vetoed</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[10]</span> both the Fair Share Health Care bill that prevents Wal-Mart from shifting their health care costs to the public and a bill to increase Maryland's minimum wage by a dollar. Even better -- Ehrlich <a href="http://www.davidsirota.com/2006/01/ehrlich-gets-caught-lying-about-wal.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">lied about the fact</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[11]</span> that Wal-Mart hosted a major fundraiser for him, claiming that the event never occured.

<b>Hurting democracy:</b> On the same day that Ehrlich was vetoing pro-worker bills, he did his best to oppose efforts to strengthen democracy. He also vetoed legislation allowing for early voting, voter verified elections, and an anti-voter intimidation bill.

<b>Human rights:</b> Governor Ehrlich vetoed legislation to create legislative oversight of the state's juvenile detention system, a system <a href="http://www.davidsirota.com/2006/01/ehrlich-gets-caught-lying-about-wal.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">that has come under federal investigation</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[11]</span> during Ehrlich's term due to "complaints of youths being mistreated, inadequate staffing and other problems..."

<b>Racial insensitivity:</b> After <a href="http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/4625.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">hosting an event</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[12]</span> at an all-white country club, Ehrlich took to the airwaves, defending his decision "saying its membership is 'not my business'..."

<b>Civil rights:</b> As part of his efforts to spread joy to his conservative base, Ehrlich also vetoed bills that would allow for equal rights with regards to medicine, funerals, and real estate transfers for domestic partners. Taxing billion dollar estates is wrong. Separating dying Americans from their loved ones is good policy. This is the mindset of the modern right.</div><div class="the_body body_news-politics clearfix">

<b>Georgia: Sonny Perdue</b>

Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue is by no means the best known Southern Governor (that claim to fame probably goes to Jeb Bush or to Haley Barbour, featured in our sidebar). His story is an amazing one, from how he got elected to his presiding over a period of resurgence in Georgia that is less conservative and more wingnut fringe.

<b>The race bait and switch:</b> During his campaign for Governor, Sonny Perdue criticized the incumbent Roy Barnes for changing Georgia's state flag to remove the Confederate Battle Flag. Some observers credit this move with his victory. Following his election, he held a referendum on replacing the Barnes flag, but didn't include Confederate Battle Flag imagery as an option.

<b>Education malpractice:</b> Perdue <a href="http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/georgia/entries/2006/02/23/legislature_app.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">backed, passed, and signed</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[13]</span> a version of the <a href="http://www.progressivestates.org/content/152/03202006-stateside-dispatch-the-rightwings-war-on-public-schools" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">65% Distraction</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[14]</span> requiring that Georgia schools spend 65% of their budgets "in the classroom." The proposal is nothing more than political fluff that ignores such necessary school expenses as nurses and schoolbuses. Perdue made it a centerpiece of his education agenda.

<b>Economic boondoggles:</b> Flustered by economic flight out of Georgia (spurred, perhaps, by bad education policy and questionable racial politics?), Perdue felt pressure to deliver. So after Ford and GM pulled up their stakes, Georgia's Governor <a href="http://www.progressivestates.org/blog/150/ga-new-jobs-or-costly-boondoggle" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">landed $400 million</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[15]</span> in incentives for Korean automaker Kia to build a plant in Georgia. The plant is expected to create 2,500 jobs at a cost of $160,000 a piece to the state.

<b>Conservative robots:</b> In addition to passing poorly thought-out rightwing ideas like the 65% Solution (see above), Perdue's election to the Governor's office was <a href="http://www.progressivestates.org/content/57/governing-the-nation-from-the-statehouses#examples" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">quickly followed</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[16]</span> by Georgia's establishment as ALEC's prime state, moving multiple model bills, including asbestos tort deform and legislation to shut down Atlanta's living wage ordinance.

<b>Scapegoating immigrants:</b> In a time of immigrant scapegoating, Perdue and his rightwing allies in Georgia have taken the cake -- passing a bill that <a href="http://www.progressivestates.org/blog/95/ga-more-rightwing-scapegoating-of-immigrants" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">threatens immigrants</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[17]</span> while basically letting employers, especially unscrupulous ones, off the hook. While happily claiming that they've passed the harshest measure in the country, Perdue smiles and says that "<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060417/ap_on_re_us/immigration_2;ylt=AnnwEmqlBi4mQXvl.itmjIFQuk0A;ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Georgia's government is not, and this bill is not, anti-immigrant</a> <span class="print-footnote" style="font-size: xx-small;">[18]</span>." Right. It's just in favor of immigrant exploitation. That's a big difference.</div><div id="report-typos">
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[1] http://progressivestates.org
[2] http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_16_54/ai_90570238
[3] http://markschmitt.typepad.com/decembrist/2005/11/norquists_parad.html
[4] http://www.soapblox.net/colorado/showDiary.do;jsessionid=1F7554F854F1322BC45B412A06EF212F?diaryId=988
[5] http://www.soapblox.net/colorado/showDiary.do;jsessionid=1F7554F854F1322BC45B412A06EF212F?diaryId=1342
[6] http://collegefreedom.blogspot.com/2003/09/conservative-correctness-in-colorado.html
[7] http://www.freeexchangeoncampus.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4&Itemid=5
[8] http://www.progressnowaction.org/page/community/post_group/ProgressNowStaff/C3DS
[9] http://baltimore.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2005/05/30/daily18.html
[10] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/20/AR2005052000862.html
[11] http://www.davidsirota.com/2006/01/ehrlich-gets-caught-lying-about-wal.html
[12] http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/4625.html
[13] http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/georgia/entries/2006/02/23/legislature_app.html
[14] http://www.progressivestates.org/content/152/03202006-stateside-dispatch-the-rightwings-war-on-public-schools
[15] http://www.progressivestates.org/blog/150/ga-new-jobs-or-costly-boondoggle
[16] http://www.progressivestates.org/content/57/governing-the-nation-from-the-statehouses#examples
[17] http://www.progressivestates.org/blog/95/ga-more-rightwing-scapegoating-of-immigrants
[18] http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060417/ap_on_re_us/immigration_2;ylt=AnnwEmqlBi4mQXvl.itmjIFQuk0A;ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
[19] mailto:corrections@alternet.org?Subject=Typo on America's Worst Governors
[20] http://www.alternet.org/%2Bnew_src%2B</p></div></div><div>
</div><div></div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Bill Owens</b> (born October 22, 1952) is an American politician and a member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Republican Party</a> who served as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Colorado" title="List of Governors of Colorado" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">40th</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Colorado" title="Governor of Colorado" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Governor of Colorado</a> from 1999 to 2007. Owens was re-elected in 2002 by the largest majority in Colorado history,<sup id="cite_ref-Deloitte_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#cite_note-Deloitte-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> after making transportation, education, and tax cuts the focus of his governorship.<sup id="cite_ref-DP_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#cite_note-DP-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; font-size: 13px; display: table; zoom: 1; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="color: black; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; font-size: 13px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2> <span class="toctoggle" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: 13px;"> [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">hide</a>] </span></div><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#Early_life" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Early life</span></a><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#Early_political_career" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Early political career</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#Governorship" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Governorship</span></a><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#Tax_cuts" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Tax cuts</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#TRANS_and_T-REX" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">TRANS and T-REX</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#Education_reform" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">Education reform</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#Second_term" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Second term</span></a><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#Referendum_C" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Referendum C</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#Soviet_Union.2FRussia" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Soviet Union/Russia</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#After_politics" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">After politics</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#Personal" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Personal</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li></ul></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life">Early life</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-family: sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bill Owens was born in Ft. Worth, Texas, where he graduated from Paschal High School. While a sophomore in high school, Owens was appointed a Page in the U.S. House of Representatives by Congressman (and later, Speaker of the House) Jim Wright. Owens was assigned by the Doorkeeper of the House to the Republican cloakroom, where he worked for notable Republicans who were serving in the House then such as George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford and Bob Dole.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He attended Stephen F. Austin State University where he served as vice president and president of the student body. While at Stephen F. Austin State University, Owens served as a coordinator of the Students for George Bush in George H.W. Bush's unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. Senate. It was during this campaign that Owens would first meet future President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">George W. Bush</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Owens earned a Master’s degree in Public Affairs from the University of Texas, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, where he was awarded a full two-year fellowship.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Following his graduate work, Owens accepted a position in the Washington D.C. office of Touche Ross & Co. (now Deloitte). He moved to Colorado in 1977 after accepting a position with the Gates Corporation. He later served as Executive Director of the Colorado Petroleum Association and as Executive Vice President of the Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas Association.</p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_political_career">Early political career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early political career" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bill Owens served as a member of the Colorado House of Representatives from 1982 until 1988, and as a State Senator from 1988 to 1994, representing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora,Colorado" title="Aurora, Colorado" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Aurora</a> and Arapahoe County.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">While in the Legislature, Owens was active in tax reform, privatization and school choice initiatives, sponsoring the nation's third charter school law. He served as Chair of both the House and Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committees and as Chair of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) Energy Committee, as well as on NCSL’s Executive Committee.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Owens was elected to statewide office as Colorado State Treasurer in 1994, where he was responsible for managing the state's $5 billion in investment funds. Owens also served during this time on the board of Colorado's $25 billion pension fund, the Colorado Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA).</p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Governorship">Governorship</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-family: sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Governorship" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Treasurer Owens was elected as the 40th Governor of Colorado in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_gubernatorial_election,1998" title="Colorado gubernatorial election, 1998" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1998 governor's race</a>, when he defeated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Democratic</a> opponent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Schoettler" title="Gail Schoettler" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Gail Schoettler</a> by only 8,300 votes (less than one percent of ballots cast). When he was inaugurated on January 12, 1999, Owens became Colorado’s first Republican governor in 24 years. His platform was three pronged: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply-side_economics" title="Supply-side economics" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">cut taxes</a>, repair Colorado’s aging <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roads" title="Roads" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">infrastructure</a>, and continue <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_United_States" title="Education in the United States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">school</a>accountability reforms.<sup id="cite_ref-DP_2-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#cite_note-DP-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Tax_cuts">Tax cuts</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Tax cuts" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Upon entering office, Owens worked with a legislature controlled by his own Republican party to push through the largest tax relief package in state history, amounting to $1 billion in rate cuts to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes" title="Sales taxes" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">sales</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_taxes" title="Income taxes" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">personal-income</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax" title="Capital gains tax" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">capital-gains taxes</a>. Owens also championed, and eventually won, the elimination of the state’s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_penalty" title="Marriage penalty" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">marriage penalty</a>. By 2006, the Owens administration estimated the cuts had saved Coloradans $3.6 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-DP_2-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#cite_note-DP-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="TRANS_and_T-REX">TRANS and T-REX</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)&action=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: TRANS and T-REX" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In November 1999, Owens brought his transportation funding initiative to the ballot. Called TRANS, the $1.7 billion <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond(finance)" title="Bond (finance)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">bonding</a> initiative accelerated future <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States" title="Federal government of the United States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">federal</a> transportation dollars on 28 projects across the state. The keystone project was the "TRansportation EXpansion" dubbed T-REX.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">T-REX combined road funding from TRANS with $460 million-worth of new <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_rail" title="Light rail" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">light rail</a> lines to greatly expand a 19-mile stretch of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_25_in_Colorado" title="Interstate 25 in Colorado" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Interstate 25</a> through the south <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver" title="Denver" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Denver</a> Metro Area. Through an innovative <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design-build" title="Design-build" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">design-build</a>concept that greatly reduced construction times, T-REX was finished in less than five years, and came in under budget.<sup id="cite_ref-DP_2-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#cite_note-DP-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Education_reform">Education reform</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)&action=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Education reform" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bill Owens based his education reforms on expanding and empowering the already-established Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP), which had been created during the administration of Democratic predecessor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Romer" title="Roy Romer" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Roy Romer</a>. Owens added “accountability reports” to the tests, which provided parents with a 'school report card' to allow them to better assess the performance of Colorado's public schools.<sup id="cite_ref-DP_2-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#cite_note-DP-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Second_term">Second term</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-family: sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)&action=edit&section=7&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Second term" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Owens won reelection in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_gubernatorial_election,2002" title="Colorado gubernatorial election, 2002" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">the 2002 governor's race</a> by defeating the Democratic candidate, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder,Colorado" title="Boulder, Colorado" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Boulder</a> businessman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollie_Heath" title="Rollie Heath" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Rollie Heath</a>, 64%–32% – the greatest majority in Colorado history. Shortly before the election, Owens was proclaimed by <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Review" title="National Review" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">National Review</a></i> as "America's Best Governor".<sup id="cite_ref-BestGuv_3-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#cite_note-BestGuv-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In the summer of 2002, when the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayman_Fire" title="Hayman Fire" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Hayman Fire</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coal_Seam_Fire&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Coal Seam Fire (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Coal Seam Fire</a> ravaged much of Western Colorado, Owens made perhaps the first major press faux-pas of his tenure. Responding to a reporter’s question following an aerial tour of the fires (“What does it look like up there?”), Owens said “It looks as if all of Colorado is burning today”.<sup id="cite_ref-Burning_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#cite_note-Burning-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></sup> Many western slope residents blamed Owens for driving away tourists with the press’s truncated version of the quote (“All of Colorado is burning”).<sup id="cite_ref-Burning2_5-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#cite_note-Burning2-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In November 2002, Colorado voters rejected Owens’ water storage initiative, Referendum A. The referendum failed to win a single county in the state, as opponents successfully savaged the measure as a “blank check”.<sup id="cite_ref-DP_2-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#cite_note-DP-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> Owens would later joke, “it takes a particularly adept Governor to lose a water referendum in the face of a 300-year drought.” While the initiative was supported by most Colorado newspapers and business groups, it was opposed by the environmental community and many on Colorado's Western Slope who feared it would lead to the Front Range using more Western Slope water.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Leading up to the 2004 primary, Owens caused some controversy in the Republican Party by announcing support for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Schaffer" title="Bob Schaffer" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bob Schaffer</a>'s run to replace retiring <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Senator" title="U.S. Senator" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">U.S. Senator</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Nighthorse_Campbell" title="Benjamin Nighthorse Campbell" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Ben Campbell</a>, but then endorsing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Coors" title="Pete Coors" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Pete Coors</a>when Coors later announced his entry two days later.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Democrat <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ritter" title="Bill Ritter" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bill Ritter</a> was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_gubernatorial_election,2006" title="Colorado gubernatorial election, 2006" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">elected in November 2006</a> to replace the term-limited Owens.</p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Referendum_C">Referendum C</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)&action=edit&section=8&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Referendum C" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 2005, Owens faced what former Colorado Governor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Lamm" title="Dick Lamm" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Dick Lamm</a> termed “the test of his time.”<sup id="cite_ref-DP_2-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#cite_note-DP-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> Conflicting budget measures in Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR, which caps government spending) and the voter endorsed Amendment 23 (which mandates increases in education funding) combined with a nationwide recession to leave Colorado’s budget 17 percent below 2001 levels. A “glitch” – as Owens termed it – in TABOR prevented the budget from rebounding once the recession reversed.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Owens angered some conservatives by working with moderate Republican and Democratic legislators to craft and endorse what became known as Referendum C – essentially a 5-year timeout from TABOR’s spending restrictions. National conservative leaders such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist" title="Grover Norquist" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Grover Norquist</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Armey" title="Dick Armey" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Dick Armey</a> publicly criticized the measure and Owens’ support thereof. Referendum C passed with 52% of the vote in November 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-DP_2-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#cite_note-DP-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> While it was endorsed by every major newspaper in the state as well as the state Chamber of Commerce, it was nevertheless controversial.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Owens served as Vice Chair and Chair of the Republican Governors Association, and was elected by his colleagues as Chair of the Western Governors Association.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Owens was a frequent participant in the national policy debate, appearing on the Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS Morning News, Bill O’Reilly, Hannity & Colmes, Hardball, the Wall Street Journal Report and Lou Dobbs.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Owens also debated public policy in person including well publicized debates with Democratic Chair Howard Dean on the Patriot Act before the ACLU National Convention in San Francisco; with Dr. Larry Summers at the Aspen Institute; with former Illinois Governor George Ryan on the death penalty at Michigan State University; with ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero on the Patriot Act at Northwestern State University; and with Justice Adrian Hardiman, the former Chief Justice of the Irish Supreme Court on the death penalty at the University College in Dublin, Ireland.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Owens was a regular participant and panelist at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, appearing in 2005 on a panel debating U.S. foreign policy with Sen. Joe Biden and Sen. Chris Dodd.</p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Soviet_Union.2FRussia">Soviet Union/Russia</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-family: sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)&action=edit&section=9&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Soviet Union/Russia" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Owens has been a student of the Soviet Union and Russia since the 1980s. He was a group leader for People to People International, leading groups to the Soviet Union and Russia in the 1980s and 1990s, briefing the participants on Russian politics, history, and economics. He has spoken on U.S. foreign policy at Moscow State University, Russia New University (Moscow), Kazan State University in Tatarstan, and the Kazakh-British Technical University in Almaty, Kazakhstan.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He addressed the Kazakh Senate at Astana, Kazakhstan, in 2003 and was the keynote speaker at the RAND US/Russia Business Leaders Forum in Moscow in 2004. Owens served five years on the Board of Directors and as Chair of the Strategy Committee of Far Eastern Shipping Company, a Moscow-based rail, port and container company which is listed on the Moscow exchange.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Owens is presently on the Advisory Board and Chair of the Strategy and Finance Committee of the Credit Bank of Moscow.</p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="After_politics">After politics</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-family: sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)&action=edit&section=10&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: After politics" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Owens is a Managing Director at Renew Strategies, a Denver-based land and water development firm. He is on a number of public boards including Key Energy (NYSE:KEG); Cloud Peak Energy (NYSE); Bill Barrett Corporation (NYSE:BBG) and Federal Signal (NYSE:FSS).</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Owens joined the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Denver" title="University of Denver" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">University of Denver</a>'s Institute for Public Policy Studies in January 2007 as a senior fellow.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Owens was an early supporter of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney_presidential_campaign,2008" title="Mitt Romney presidential campaign, 2008" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Mitt Romney's 2008 Presidential campaign</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Romney_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#cite_note-Romney-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></sup> After Romney dropped out of the race, Owens worked actively for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain" title="John McCain" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">John McCain</a>'s campaign. He endorsed Romney again for the 2012 Republican nomination and served as Co-Chair of Romney's Colorado campaign.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After several media outlets confused him with another <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(New_York)" title="Bill Owens (New York)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bill Owens</a>, a Democrat who was running in a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York%27s_23rd_congressional_district_special_election,2009" title="New York's 23rd congressional district special election, 2009" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">high-profile special election in Northern New York</a>, former Governor Owens endorsed his opponent, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_of_New_York_State" title="Conservative Party of New York State" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Conservative Party</a> nominee <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Hoffman" title="Doug Hoffman" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Doug Hoffman</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal">Personal</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-family: sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)&action=edit&section=11&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Personal" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Owens and his wife Frances married in January 1975. In January 2008, he and Frances announced they would divorce.<sup id="cite_ref-Divorce_8-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#cite_note-Divorce-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></sup> They have three children, Monica (born in 1983), Mark (born in 1986), and Brett (born in 1991).<sup id="cite_ref-DP_2-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-size: 11px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#cite_note-DP-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-family: sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)&action=edit&section=12&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></h2><div class="reflist columns references-column-count references-column-count-2" style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.3em; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); -webkit-column-count: 2; list-style-type: decimal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><ol class="references" style="line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-Deloitte-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; -webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#cite_ref-Deloitte_1-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span>^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><span class="citation web" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://deloitte.net/dtt/article/0,1002,cid%253D146094,00.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"Bill Owens"</a>. Deloitte. 2007-02-15<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 2008-01-11</span>.</span><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Owens+%28Colorado+politician%29&rft.btitle=Bill+Owens&rft.date=2007-02-15&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fdeloitte.net%2Fdtt%2Farticle%2F0%2C1002%2Ccid%25253D146094%2C00.html&rft.pub=Deloitte&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></span></li><li id="cite_note-DP-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; -webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#cite_ref-DP_2-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1; font-size: 10px;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#cite_ref-DP_2-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1; font-size: 10px;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#cite_ref-DP_2-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1; font-size: 10px;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#cite_ref-DP_2-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1; font-size: 10px;"><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#cite_ref-DP_2-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1; font-size: 10px;"><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#cite_ref-DP_2-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1; font-size: 10px;"><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#cite_ref-DP_2-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1; font-size: 10px;"><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#cite_ref-DP_2-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1; font-size: 10px;"><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#cite_ref-DP_2-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1; font-size: 10px;"><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation news" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4813328" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"Owens tenure coming to an end"</a>. <i>The Denver Post</i>. 2006-12-10<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved 2008-01-11</span>.</span><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Owens+%28Colorado+politician%29&rft.atitle=Fears+May+Be+Outpacing+Reality+in+Colorado+Fires&rft.date=2002-06-16&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fgst%2Ffullpage.html%3Fres%3D9E06E5D6103CF935A25755C0A9649C8B63&rft.jtitle=New+York+Times&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></span></li><li id="cite_note-Burning2-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; -webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; page-break-inside: avoid;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Owens(Colorado_politician)#cite_ref-Burning2_5-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span>^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><span class="citation web" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20030806/RECREATION08/308060003" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"The backcountry business"</a>. 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