If you have read even a handful of my several hundred columns during the past few years, you likely ran across me saying nice things about Gov. Jared Polis. I genuinely like the guy, whom I met during our mutual first runs for Congress back in 2008. He was very nice to me, even though, as we jokingly discussed, he was essentially assured of victory while I was, well, not so much down here in deep-red El Paso County. During our campaigns, we found ourselves together a number of times.