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Round-Up: Reapportionment raises GOP ire; Occupy CS shows up at groundbreaking

By On November 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Andrea Chalfin, Bente Birkeland, Capitol Coverage, Colorado, Colorado Springs, KRCC News, Politics, Round-Up

Tempers flared at the state capitol today when a commission charged with redrawing state house districts voted to accept Democratic maps…and, About a dozen members of the Occupy Colorado Springs movement appeared at a solar gardening groundbreaking this morning, interrupting a statement from the governor. That’s according to the Colorado Springs Gazette.

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