Still Colorado's Worst Governor

Yes, it is Jared Polis again, who just vetoed a bill banning surveillance pricing, aka price gouging.

He really is a turd.

Rogue veto. Fresh from being censured by his own party for pardoning an election-denying county clerk who’d tampered with voting machines, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis again bucked fellow Democrats by vetoing a bill that would have been the strongest surveillance pricing ban in the country. Surveillance pricing is the algorithmic exploitation of consumers’ personal data to charge them the most they’re willing to pay. A majority of Americans oppose the practice, but in his veto letter, Polis claimed the Colorado bill could discourage “perfectly acceptable uses of technology to set an appropriate price or wage, or the use of technology to save consumers money through discounts.”

Polis’ term-limited administration ends in January, and one potential successor has already said he will sign a surveillance pricing bill. Gubernatorial candidate and Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser (D) told The Lever that “Nobody should be charged more for groceries during a natural disaster, for example — but that’s what happens with surveillance pricing, which allows businesses to track consumers’ and workers’ personal data and adjust prices and wages based on recent search and purchase history, location, and other data.”

What a pathetic waste of about a million years of evolution.