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Phil Weiser: “I was the first elected official to say over my dead body…”

Featuring: Phil Weiser, Democratic | Attorney General of Colorado

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Published | Video Starts at 45:40

And that's why when there was a proposal and it's still out there, to make some investors rich and move water from the San Luis Valley to the Front Range, I was the first elected official to say over my dead body [to a proposal to move water from the San Luis Valley to the Front Range]. that's not how we're going to manage water in Colorado. On the Capitol, there's actually a poem written by Thomas Farrell. It says, in Colorado is a land where life is inscribed in water. (45:40–45:44)

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Asserts opposition to a specific water transfer proposal.

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