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"Groff's lofty call in stirring last stand," is the latest from Denver Post columnist Mike Littwin.It wasn't Lincoln at Gettysburg. It wasn't Henry V at Agincourt. And it certainly wasn't King anywhere near a mountaintop. We were at the Colorado legislature, after all. If you spend any time there, you learn quickly that the oratory bar is set, uh, well, um, low. But then there's Peter Groff, the outgoing Senate president, who occasionally gives a speech sufficiently riveting that, as he speaks, some on the floor actually listen. On the session's last day, on what would be Groff's last day on the job, Groff didn't simply clear the bar. By the standards of the legislature, he practically leapt from the building...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 08, 2009 (boomark / email).