douglas bruce
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Appeals court rules against Bruce in ‘trip and fall’ case
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Douglas Bruce — author of Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights and a former inmate convicted of tax evasion — lost an appeal Thursday in the Colorado Court of Appeals related to a fall he suffered at the 2022 Western Conservative Summit. In April 2023, Bruce sued the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center and its…
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Mark Waller to run for district attorney for Colorado’s El Paso, Teller counties
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Mark Waller, currently a member of the El Paso Board of County Commissioners and a former state representative, announced Thursday he will run for the 4th Judicial District Attorney position in the 2020 election. Waller is running to replace current District Attorney Dan May, who is term-limited in 2020. The 4th Judicial District includes El…
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2 more elections on tap for Colorado state Senate
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The results of Colorado’s 2018 midterms will mean two more elections before the end of the year, both for soon-to-be-vacant state Senate seats. Democratic Sen. Matt Jones of Louisville ran for the Boulder County Board of County Commissioners and won. He will be sworn into office on Jan. 8. The same happened to Democratic Sen.…
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HUDSON | What if TABOR isn’t a ‘third rail’ of Colorado politics after all?
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Since Colorado voters pasted the TABOR amendment that steers spending and revenues into our state constitution in 1992, the myth of its sacrosanct power has been embroidered each year. It is frequently viewed as the “third rail” of politics – attempt to tamper with it and you will surely die. However, only a slim majority…
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HUDSON | Narcissism of the Trump variety doesn’t sell in Colorado
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A recent study published in the Journal of Psychological Science attempted to estimate the collective sense of narcissism shared in each state. The primary measure of perceived self-importance asked residents what percentage of American history was primarily shaped by their own state? Collectively, these estimates totaled a whopping 907%. One of the researchers, Henry Roediger…
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Denver League of Women Voters: Let’s talk TABOR
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They’re calling the event “Another look at TABOR” – as in 1992’s voter-enacted Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights – because of course it won’t be the first time skeptics of the epic tax-limiting provision in the Colorado Constitution have eyed it in hopes of changing it. And while the March 19 forum, announced in a news…
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Capitol M: Week ending March 9
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A weekly look at the lighter side, or something, of what goes on at the state Capitol. He did what?…Gov. John Hickenlooper didn’t participate in a caucus on Tuesday night. The governor explained he was double-booked and failed to remember that Caucus Night was on the horizon. But he also said that since voters…
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Douglas Bruce loses another round in court
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Douglas Bruce, the father of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights who was convicted of tax evasion in 2011 for filing false tax returns and failure to pay taxes, lost another legal round this week, this time at the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. A two-judge appeals court panel on Thursday denied Bruce’s request for an…
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It’s all about Douglas Bruce — this time, in a way that actually enlightens
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It’s not that much of a stretch to say the history of Colorado fiscal policy over the past quarter-century is synonymous with the biography of Douglas Bruce. That’s by and large because of the one groundbreaking policy Bruce authored and relentlessly championed into law in 1992, the voter-approved Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights in the state…
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Like it or not, there’s no reforming Douglas Bruce
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That was the upshot of a telling update the other day in the Colorado Springs Gazette on the self-styled taxpayers’ champion, thumb-in-your-eye activist and proud pariah of the political establishment. As The Gazette’s Conrad Swanson noted, even Bruce’s latest stint behind bars for violating terms of his parole on tax charges couldn’t get him to…
