{"id":2924,"date":"2018-01-18T16:42:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T16:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/52.10.1.109\/?p=2924"},"modified":"2018-01-20T01:44:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T01:44:25","slug":"tate-and-wist-named-as-south-metro-chambers-legislators-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/?p=2924","title":{"rendered":"Tate and Wist named as South Metro Chamber\u2019s Legislators of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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State Rep. Cole Wist and Sen. Jack Tate receive the Legislator of the Year award from the South Metro Denver Chamber\u2019s Michele McKinney. Photos by Peter Jones<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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State senator and representative recognized for pro-business record.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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BY PETER JONES<\/strong>
\nNEWS EDITOR<\/span><\/p>\n

The South Metro Denver Chamber has named state Sen. Jack Tate, R-Centennial, and state Rep. Cole Wist, R-Centennial, as its 2017 Legislators of the Year.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey are both very likeable, particularly among our membership. They are smart. They are thoughtful, and they take a no-nonsense approach at the Capitol,\u201d said Michele McKinney, chair of the chamber\u2019s Board of Directors and the assistant vice president for external affairs and advocacy at the University of Colorado.<\/p>\n

Wist, the House assistant minority leader and an attorney, is known as a champion for small business, McKinney told a group of chamber members on Oct. 18. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe was instrumental in the passage of a package of bills on construction-litigation reform,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re very grateful he took a leadership role. \u2026 He also is a vocal opponent for anti-oil-and-gas legislation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Tate is a businessman and engineer by education and chairs the Senate\u2019s Business, Labor and Technology Committee.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJack has leveraged his more than two decades managing capital investments and has thoughtfully applied his <\/span>business acumen to legislative
\n<\/span>policy matters,\u201d McKinney said. \u201cHe is known as one of the more knowledgeable elected officials on business issues. \u2026 He has been a great resource to the chamber.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Tate was credited for his work on construction-litigation reform and other regulatory reform benefitting small businesses. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSen. Tate and Rep. Wist both share their time with chamber members and have a way of removing the political rhetoric when talking about issues important to the chamber and the business community,\u201d added chamber President Robert Golden.<\/span><\/p>\n

Recipients were selected by the chamber\u2019s Legislative Action Committee as elected representatives who have shown the highest level of support and leadership for bills and policy that were chamber priorities for the 2017 legislative session.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those priorities included business-friendly regulations, transportation funding, affordable housing and development of energy and natural resources, McKinney said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they speak to us, they remove the political rhetoric,\u201d she said of Tate and Wist.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    BY PETER JONES NEWS EDITOR The South Metro Denver Chamber has named state Sen. Jack Tate, R-Centennial, and state Rep. Cole Wist, R-Centennial, as its 2017 Legislators of the Year. \u201cThey are both very likeable, particularly among our membership. They are smart. They are thoughtful, and they take a no-nonsense approach at the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-briefs","category-business","category-chambers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}