The dysfunction of today's GOP has at last come to Colorado.

RTD isn't exactly a core constituency of the Republicans and they see in this "error" an opportunity to leverage a fix for something else. "Nice public service system you got there; shame if something happened to it!" The idea of serving the general public by administering government in good faith is foreign to them.

The Republican leadership, I have ZERO doubt, did agree to a special session for a fix and then promptly folded like a cheap suit when the tantrum-throwers in their base decided that this conflicted with their "principles" that government must be strangled in a bathtub.

Luckily, GOP control of the Senate hangs by a thread and 2018 should resolve this. (Unfortunately, for Republicans with an IQ above 50, they'll foresee that this will also defeat Republican priorities on a host of other issues far more important. But that type of 'two-step forward' thinking doesn't fill 47 minutes of on-air talk-radio time!!)