Things are looking up for GOP members of the Colorado House

Being in the majority in the Colorado House of Representatives has its perks.

The Pueblo Chieftain reports that with a 33-32 majority in the Colorado House, Republicans gained more than a one-vote advantage on floor votes. Victory in the election earned the GOP a room with a view, an increased staff budget and other perks.

“It comes with accoutrements,” said term-limited House Majority Leader Paul Weissmann, D-Louisville. He has experienced the spoils of the majority and the austerity of the minority in the House and in the Senate.

“For one thing, there’s the offices, It’s the difference between seeing the mountains from your west-facing windows in the majority and seeing cubicle walls all around you in the one, big minority office,” Weissmann said.

Members of the majority pile two or three to an office, while minority rivals cram into “the bullpen,” a single, sprawling space divvied into cubicles.