An off year election is here. Mainly, the various city/town mayors and
council seats are up for a vote.
The two items in the picture most likely
ended up in the trash at most homes. Mine are being read. I’ve never missed
voting and try to be somewhat informed.
Only two statewide issues are up for a
vote. Proposition CC and Proposition DD.
Colorado is unique as the only state to
pass and incorporate TABOR (Taxpayers Bill of Rights) and incorporate it into
the state constitution.
The TABOR Amendment, which was
approved by voters in 1992, limits the amount of revenue the State of Colorado can retain
and spend. The TABOR limit “base”
is equal to the lesser of the prior fiscal year's revenue limit grown by Colorado inflation and
population growth, or the current fiscal year's revenue.
The (P)regressives hate TABOR as it keeps
them from spending money the state doesn’t have and to refund taxes collected
over a certain limit. Prop CC is an effort to cripple TABOR.
One wonders why large sums of dark money
from out of state are flowing in to get it passed.
Prop DD involves legalized gambling with some
vague promise to use the tax revenue to fund water projects.
I will vote “NO” on each. Prop CC because
I love TABOR because it keeps us from total Californication. Prop DD because of
the vagueness.
Why are these two propositions on the
ballot? Cynical me says because off year elections have sparse participation,
the backers believe their interest group can be fired up enough to vote.
Oh, and Colorado votes by mail. My suspicious
mind wonders how that plays out or doesn’t, in terms of election integrity.
8 comments:
Vote by mail is one sure fire way to insure malfeasance and skulduggery will reign in the voting process. No way to verify anything, lots of ways to rig the results.
Bring back the good ol' days: where you had to own land to vote, and you had to show up in person to vote, and you had to be an American to vote and you had to show up on election day to vote.
Sigh....the good ol' days.
Fredd
I wonder how much mail voting caused CO to go blue.
There's a bunch of Larimer County specific stuff I'm going through, but at this point, it looks like we'll vote NO! on *everything* on the ballot.
drjim
Nothing on the ballots to arouses my enthusiasm, damnit!
My voter pamphlet here in Washington is a thick one. I'm slowly reading through it. The darn liberals in Seattle are as usual trying to force the rest of us to their way of Cali thinking.
Brig
And I once was a King County Democrat. In defense, my wife and I were on Dixie Ray Lee's enemy list. Moved back to CO in 1997 when my mother went gaga.
Any bets they ‘mysteriously’ pass?
Old NFO
You would bring that up!
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