doug bruce
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Election Results: 2C road maintenance tax on track for renewal for 10 years
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Colorado Springs voters are set to approve a 10-year extension for the sales tax that has helped the city funds road improvements. Tuesday night’s initial election results from the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder’s Office at 8 p.m. showed that 73.18% of voters were in support of renewing the 2C sales and use tax.…
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Bruce says Republicans were bamboozled on gerrymandering
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The inimitable tax-hating ex-con Douglas Bruce is coming out swinging late in the campaign fight on issues he can’t stand. The author of the state’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights has written his own voter’s guide on a handful of issues. He says it will soon be posted online. The former El Paso County commissioner and…
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For what it’s worth, Caldara says he’s going forward on transportation initiative
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As news rippled around the Capitol on Thursday morning that the future of legislative leadership’s grand bargain transportation bill was growing dimmer by the hour, Jon Caldara snacked at the cafe across the street, scrolling through a list of transportation ballot initiatives filed Wednesday by the contracting community and that closely mirror teetering House Bill…
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Romer vetoes bill outlawing same-sex marriages, Bain looks for GOP sweep
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Twenty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Gov. Roy Romer wielded his veto pen “with open hands urging reconciliation and respect,” rejecting a bill that would have outlawed same-sex marriages in Colorado. Romer said he spent many hours studying the question and, despite an intense campaign waged by supporters and opponents, wound…
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Noonan: Seven years with the negative factor and no end in sight
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Doug Bruce, the convicted tax-avoider, detested jail food and lost weight while incarcerated. His TABOR is another kind of toxic problem, causing Colorado’s public school children to lose potential and opportunity. State Reps. Millie Hamner, D-Dillon, and Bob Rankin, R-Carbondale, have taken up the task of educating lawmakers on school finance, holding three sessions with…
