Colorado Senate president Peter Groff and other lawmakers from across the country met with President Barack Obama on Friday.
Afterward, Groff got his 15 minutes of national fame, telling CNN that the meeting was a “great opportunity for us to sit down and talk about the role state legislatures would have.”
Obama spoke to a gathering of the National Conference of State Legislatures in Washington.
“Part of my job as president is to ensure that we’re a good partner with you, because you’re where rubber hits the road; you’re where people actually see the benefits of a good education and high-quality health care, transportation, energy plans that actually make sense,” Obama told the group.
Groff told CNN that Colorado was at the front of the foreclosure crisis and how that has ebbed a bit, and how the unemployment rate isn’t as high as in some states but is high for the state. He closed with Democrats’ favorite sales pitch — new-energy economy.
“We’ll need stimulus dollars to put Coloradans back to work and we’re ready to do that with our new-energy economy,” the Denver Democrat said.
Groff also attended a board meeting of the national Policy Consensus Initiative.
