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Colo. Lawmakers Seek Replacement of Wildfire Funding

by KREX News Room
by Cori Coffin
by Associated Press

Story Created: Feb 23, 2013 at 11:48 PM MDT

Story Updated: Feb 24, 2013 at 12:26 AM MDT

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - Colorado officials are still seeking money to help repair the damage of last year's wildfires.

Sen. Michael Bennet and Colorado Springs Mayor Steve Bach on Friday visited a ranch decimated by the Waldo Canyon Fire to try to keep pressure on Congress to provide relief to Colorado and other western states that burned in 2012.

According to The Colorado Springs Gazette, Bennet said Friday that ``political games'' have delayed the $20 million necessary to repair Colorado's badly burnt watersheds. Republicans in the House of Representatives stripped funds to repair wildfire damage from the Superstorm Sandy relief package in January.

Bennet, Sen. Mark Udall and Rep. Jared Polis are urging the federal department of Housing and Urban Development to release money to replace the lost relief funds.

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Disgusted said on Sunday, Feb 24 at 2:24 AM

Sen Bennet? Sen Udall? Didn't they both vote yes on the job-killing travesty known as Obummercare that was passed under cover of darkness and holiday by cowardly democrats too afraid to debate it in public on Christmas Eve, 2009

Agree to disagree said on Sunday, Feb 24 at 10:27 AM

Why would you put the "Wildfire" relief funds into the "Sandy" relief fund account. Makes no sense to me. Remove it as Republicans allegedly did and create a "Colorado Wildfire" relief fund and distribute the money. Simple accounting / banking practice to me, but wait Politicians (Dem, Rep, Ind alike) hide money in various accounts and ghost accounts.

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