jon caldara
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Just how serious is the Independence Institute about its highway-funding ballot issue?
That’s essentially the question the Colorado Statesman’s John Tomasic puts to the libertarian-leaning think tank’s longtime director, Jon Caldara, in a story this week. The upshot is in the headline: “For what it’s worth, Caldara says he’s going forward on transportation initiative.” And then there’s also this item we stumbled across on Independence’s own website — a…
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For what it’s worth, Caldara says he’s going forward on transportation initiative
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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Class clown of Colorado politics doesn’t miss a beat in latest e-missive
Jon Caldara. Love him, hate him; boil him in oil. Tar him; feather him; haul him out of town on a rail. Rest assured, he will thank you for the extra publicity. Just spell his name right (it’s not c-a-l-d-E-r-a). And give him this much credit: The man is funny. In the staid and stuffy world of think…
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Caldara’s alternative transportation-funding proposal lands a Title Board hearing
The dead serious transportation-funding ballot initiative submitted by Colorado political prankster Jon Caldara is scheduled to land before the state Title Board next week Wednesday. The hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, April 19, at 9:30 A.M., at the Secretary of State’s office. It’s difficult to imagine that no one plans to mount a legal challenge…
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Backlash at transportation tax proposal spawns a ballot drive of its own
Hey, how about a ballot issue to upgrade the state’s woefully bottlenecked, backlogged and aging highway network – without raising taxes? You want it? You got it: The libertarian-leaning Independence Institute in Denver announced it filed a ballot proposal with the state today that would require the General Assembly to issue $2.5 billion in bonds to fund a raft of highway projects statewide…