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Colorado Politics: Colorado business leaders, Gov. Jared Polis send warning as companies pack their bags

Is Colorado scaring away corporate expansions and entrepreneurs that had once made the state a magnet for high-tech business growth?

That’s the assertion of a letter signed by more than 200 business and technology leaders, addressed to Gov. Jared Polis, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, Democratic senatorial candidates and other political leaders.

Colorado Chamber President and CEO Loren Furman, who had added her own signature to the new letter, told The Denver Gazette that she hopes the governor would be working together with the chamber on issues that the organization has long flagged as harmful to continued growth.

“We’ve aligned with Gov. Polis on many of our regulatory reform, housing and affordability priorities in the past, and we believe there are still opportunities to partner during the remainder of his term to continue this work,” Furman said.

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