At the base of the shift lever outer shell slice the rubber where it meets the shell inward using a razor ~ 1/16 inch. This is so that when you remove the outer shell the lower rubber flap stays behind. Mark the shell the amount that you want to remove. I used a Rigid #20 pipe cutter to do this.
Hickenlooper was viewed as a possible contender for Governor of Colorado in the November 2006 election to replace term-limited Republican Governor Bill Owens. Despite a Draft Hick campaign, he officially announced on February 6, 2006 that he would not seek the Democratic nomination for governor.
This year, it's really lopsided -- far more than we've seen in the past, says Charles Aull, Ballotpedia's state legislative project director. Republicans have about twice as many term-limited legislators as Democrats do. Many of the legislators who will be term-limited out of office in 2018 are in states with eight-year caps.