douglas bruce

Where do left and right converge? On local growth

Sep 12, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

It’s not unusual to see environmentalists on the political left come to the aid of homeowners aggrieved at developers over the latest shopping center or housing tract to intrude on their neighborhood. Less common but at least as potent is when elements of the tax-cutting, government-baiting political right link arms with the left on the…
Tax limitation’s author, Douglas Bruce, gets no satisfaction from the El Paso Co. Commission

Sep 6, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

Sure, it’s a commission on which he once served. In his hometown. Where he first conceived and wrote the taxing and spending limits that, since voter approval in 1992, have been part of the Colorado constitution. Yet, the current crop of commissioners stiff-armed Douglas Bruce on Tuesday, voting 4-1 Tuesday to move ahead with a…
Douglas Bruce: Still a ‘rain tax’ after all these years

Aug 9, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

He may be recycling some of his quips – Ronald Reagan’s, too – but tax-limitation author and convicted tax evader Douglas Bruce remains a go-to source for curmudgeonly commentary on any proposal for a new tax or fee. The onetime El Paso County commissioner and, briefly, state representative is back in the news this week,…
Legendarily brusque Douglas Bruce gets a serving of what he has been dishing out for years

Jul 4, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

His many critics must have seen it as poetic justice – kind of like the hitch he served in a Colorado prison for tax evasion. Even some of his loyalists must have snickered. Here was the guy who has spent decades telling high-and-mighty pols and lowly government functionaries which pier they could jump off of…
A sage of the Springs — no conservative by any measure — tips his hat to TABOR

Jun 23, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

Colorado Springs native and legendary man about town John Hazlehurst has, in no particular order, served on the Springs City Council; run (unsuccessfully) for mayor; toiled as an appraiser of fine art, and long ago, spent years circumnavigating the globe in a sailboat. And that’s not to mention his New York days as an investment…
Federal judge dismisses marathon lawsuit against Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights

May 5, 2017

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Dan Njegomir

A federal judge has lowered the boom on a long-running lawsuit that had sought to use the courts to do what a succession of politicians wasn’t able to do in elected office — dismantle the voter-approved Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights amended into Colorado’s Constitution 25 years ago. In a 24-page ruling issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge Raymond P. Moore…
Who eats crow and then spits it back out? Douglas Bruce, of course

Feb 27, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

Douglas Bruce can’t be the first felon who ever tweaked his backstory to fit his circumstances. No doubt plenty of perps have told a prospective employer, for example, that they regret their bad choice – only to turn around and tell mom, “I was framed!” Yet, it takes someone with Bruce’s trademark audacity – unmitigated gall, if you prefer – to change his tune quite so publicly as…
After yet another stint behind bars, Douglas Bruce is back at bat

Jan 25, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

To its true believers, the unending battle against higher taxes requires an unrelenting and unflinching warrior to do its bidding. Hence, Douglas Bruce. The near-mythic Colorado Springs tax-cut crusader; author of Colorado’s taxing and spending limits; sometime politician; all-round political curmudgeon – and, in more recent years, convicted felon – emerged from months of seclusion this…
YESTERYEAR: Hickenlooper, others launch project to grapple with climate change

Sep 15, 2016

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Ernest Luning

Ten Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper was joined by Lakewood Mayor Steve Burkholder, Fort Collins Mayor Doug Hutchinson, Colorado Forum director Gail Klapper, former Colorado State University president Al Yates and others to unveil the Colorado Climate Project, aimed at developing a plan to reduce the state’s…
YESTERYEAR: Lamm flirts with presidential run on Ross Perot’s Reform Party ticket

Jul 7, 2016

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Ernest Luning

Twenty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Former Gov. Dick Lamm was remaining a Democrat – for the time being – but would be working hard to help Ross Perot’s Reform Party get its presidential candidate on the ballot in Colorado, and Lamm might be that candidate. “I think it’s really important…