Weiser’s Blueprint: The costs the plan leaves out
By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice
Phil Weiser's Colorado Blueprint is full of numbers.
It reports the almost $900 million his office recovered in opioid settlements. It counts the more than $184 million in AmeriCorps funding he sued to recover, and the nearly $32 million his office won from the e-cigarette maker JUUL.
It measures the problems he wants to solve down to the dollar, from the $11.4 billion it says Coloradans lose each year to congested highways and deteriorating roads to the $36.5 billion it credits to outdoor recreation and the adjacent hospitality and travel industries.
What the 109-page plan almost never does is say what Weiser's own proposals would cost.
The Democrat attorney general, running for governor, proposes a ...