Polis Joins Business Leaders Warning State Policies Driving Companies Out Of Colorado

By Mark Samuelson | The Denver Gazette

Is Colorado scaring away corporate expansions and entrepreneurs that had once made the state a magnet for high-tech business growth?

That’s the assertion of a letter signed by more than 200 business and technology leaders, addressed to Gov. Jared Polis, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, Democratic senatorial candidates and other political leaders.

Notably, one of the signers is Polis himself.

Boulder entrepreneur Dan Caruso told The Denver Gazette that after he drove an effort to draft the missive, warning that political messaging is damaging the state’s business competitiveness, Polis had reached out.

The governor offered to join in signing the letter and presenting it.

“It wasn’t hard to get huge support,” Caruso said of the effort to find the 233 cosigners. “We need to give our politicians a wakeup call.”

But was it surprising that Polis, a Democrat, had joined in a message that was largely addressed to members of his own party?

“They are the people in power, right?” Caruso replied.

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