amendment 71
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INSIGHTS: Potholes line road ahead on transportation
This isn’t going to end well. I only need math – addition, subtraction and simple division – to understand the political equation of Colorado’s desperate need to fund transportation and the long odds to do it. The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and a collection of allies across the state are asking registered voters to…
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LOMAX | ‘Raise the Bar’ restored as court lowers the boom on anti-biz groups
Talk about a short-lived victory. Anti-growth and single-payer healthcare activists barely had a chance to celebrate a single judge’s ruling against Amendment 71, passed overwhelmingly by voters in 2016, before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver restored the constitutional provision in full. All told, it took just over two weeks for the 10th…
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Q&A with Kelly Brough | Denver chamber’s chief weighs in on Olympics, #MeToo and more
Among the heavier hitters in the Denver metro business community – and in Colorado politics – is Kelly Brough. As president and CEO of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, she wields the kind of clout in the political forum that you’d expect of someone who serves as a voice for some 3,000 Denver-area businesses…
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LOMAX | Federal judge’s ruling on ‘Raise the Bar’ could prove a hollow victory for activists
The activists behind a failed government takeover of Colorado’s healthcare system – which would have raised state taxes by a massive $25 billion – are celebrating right now. Not a victory at the polls, of course, but a series of two rulings from a federal court judge in Denver in mid-February and again last week. The rulings targeted Amendment 71, or “Raise the Bar,”…
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BIDLACK | A constitution keeps the tyranny of the majority in check
We may be in the throes of a constitutional crisis. Not in Washington (well, maybe a little, stay tuned) but here in Colorado. This week, a federal judge blocked parts of the measure, approved by voters in 2016, that made it harder to amend our lovely state’s constitution. Specifically, the Judge ruled that provision that…
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Lawsuit aims at Colorado voters’ decision to raise bar on amendments
A Denver judge says proponents behind two recent ballot proposals can go forward with their lawsuit to overturn Colorado’s Amendment 71. U.S. District Judge William Martinez denied the state’s motion to dismiss the case. The lawsuit is a long way from decided, however, and plaintiffs don’t expect it to affect this year’s ballot, unless some…
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Amendment 71 gets its first test: a limit on Colorado housing growth
The first ballot initiative to test an amendment that makes it harder to change the state constitution will seek to limit housing growth in Colorado, the Secretary of State’s Office said Wednesday. Initiative 4, as it’s called, would allow county or municipal voters across most of the state to cap housing. In the nine metro…
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Pro-ballot initiative coalition targets Amdt 71, will sue secretary of state
The Colorado ballot initiative that made it more difficult for residents in the state to pass ballot initiatives has drawn a lawsuit. The Coalition for Colorado Universal Health Care and ColoradoCareYes — groups tied to the failed ballot initiative last year that would have established public health care in the state — plan to file…