ballot initiatives
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? Letter: Voters should reject Propositions 107 and 108
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Editor: As Republican campaigners we are faced with ballots unsecured overnight by Democrat clerks; people casting votes in adjacent districts just before polls close; large numbers of provisional ballots cast by people who haven’t moved; van-loads of people arriving at a polling place with only one able to speak English and all giving the same address; harvesting ballots from apartment house lobbies; same…
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Farah: More taxes and regulations will be on your ballot
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Proposals to pile on regulations and to soak Coloradans of billions of dollars in new taxes will crowd the ballot you receive next month. Can you afford to shell out more of your hard-fought income to various governmental entities? Many Coloradans are struggling – and government already has so much. Should you give them more?…
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Noonan: Fate of fracking initiatives raise question about need for Raise the Bar
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Oil and gas companies are happy in Colorado right now, following Secretary of State Wayne Williams’s declaration that two anti-fracking initiatives, Nos. 75 and 78, didn’t collect enough signatures to meet the 98,000-plus threshold to get on the ballot. The industry, which had already spent over $15 million to defeat the proposed constitutional amendments, was…
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Denver pot club petition insufficient for ballots
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A Denver proposal to give marijuana tourists clubs to legally use the drug has failed to make city ballots this fall. But a second proposal to allow some marijuana use at bars and restaurant still awaits word on whether it will go before voters. Denver elections officials said Monday that a social-use ordinance failed to…
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Gorman: ColoradoCare guarantees higher taxes but not health care
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If passed in November, Amendment 69 creates a bureaucracy called ColoradoCare. It will have a larger budget than the entire state of Colorado. Amendment 69 increases Colorado’s income tax rate by an additional 10 percent to fund ColoradoCare. The state income tax rate will be 14.63 percent, the nation’s highest. Amendment 69 exempts ColoradoCare from…
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Colorado to decide whether to triple cigarette tax
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Colorado voters will decide in November whether to triple cigarette taxes after tobacco sales rose for the first time since the last state tax increase in 2004. An initiative certified Monday for the November ballot would raise the state tax from 84 cents to $2.59 per pack starting Jan. 1. That’s nearly a dollar more than…
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Colorado voters to consider suicide drugs for terminally ill
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Colorado voters this fall will decide whether terminally ill people should be allowed to receive prescriptions for drugs to end their own lives. The “Medical Aid in Dying” measure was certified Monday as having enough petition signatures to make ballots this fall. Five other states have some law allowing the terminally ill to end their lives.…
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Blake: On the initiatives, just say ‘no’
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I love the initiative process in theory. Power to the people! In practice, not so much. At least this year. Like a pianist playing scales, I used to warm up for my biennial ballot concerto by quickly flipping the “no” lever on all the judges up for retention. It not only flexed the fingers, it…
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Unger: Why conservatives should vote yes on ColoradoCare
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This coming November, Coloradans will vote on ColoradoCare, Amendment 69. As I talk with folks about this initiative, people seem to think that liberals will vote yes and conservatives will vote no. I think this is an issue for everyone who cares about people’s health and wasting huge amounts of money. I think conservatives should…
