Bill Ritter’s official portrait

A Colorado state senator wants to bar elected state officials and their employees from spending public money on any print or visual media announcements, broadcasts, Web sites or public communications that refer to the elected official or his or her employees by name or likeness, the Associated Press reports. The bill from Sen. Bill Cadman, R-Colorado Springs, would ban the practice by the governor, secretary of state, treasurer and attorney general. It will be heard Wednesday by the Senate State, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee.