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On the recordJanuary 27, 2010
First of all, I take some degree of offense coming from Colorado if people were to call our wilderness area kind of denigrated as mountain-front property. It so happens that our State is a mountainous State so property happens to be mountainous. Likewise, when you're talking about an island, you can call it beachfront property, but it's an island. It's by the beach. That is what an island is. We're a mountainous State; St. Croix is an island.
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Jared Polis
Democratic · Colorado
Source
govinfo.gov
Jan 27, 2010

Editor's note · Context

Polis addresses the characterization of Colorado's wilderness and compares it to the nature of islands.

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