Posted on 11/02/2005 6:05:50 AM PST by RockyMtnMan
For Democrats, the outcome is plainly a victory because virtually every elected Democrat in the state supported the measure.
Looks like the liberals of this state pulled out all the stops. The financing to ensure passage and support from the liberal press was the nail in the coffin.
What a sad day in Colorado. Let this serve as a reminder that just because they are Republicans doesn't mean they are conservative. For everyone who voted for Owens this should be a wake up call.
The ignorant citizens of Colorado have given the tax and spend pols a blank check and they are to dumb to realize that it is they who have to deposit their money to cover it.
This just blows my mind. I guess Colorado is ripe for the taking by Dems in '08.
C passed in both Jefferson and Arapahoe counties so it appears there is more to it. I'm guessing too many Republicans decided to pass it and get the budget funding problem over with. To our own peril, but that's what happened, IMHO.
The support for Ref C and D was wrapped up in a slick marketing campaign. People were too stupid to see through it. Three times as much advertising money was spent on supporting it rather than opposing it.
Yeah, it is ripe for a takeover by the Dems, no help from that RINO Gov. Owens. Another good example of why ALL politicians should be term limited. He has been in office too long.
A world turned upside down. What can you say? How do argue with insanity? Looks like Churhill is going to get another raise.
Two Republican, but not politically aware, coworkers voted for C & D. One because she believed college tuition would skyrocket by the time her 16 year old gets to college. The other because Owens was for it, so it must have been good.
The Conservatives' first order of business is to defeat Owens in the primary. A Republican In Name Only in power is much more dangerous in the long run than a Democrat governor. When high taxes predictably make a state weak, I'd rather the electorate sees a Democrat in power than a Republican.
The dumbing down of America.....I live in Denver..and all the "more money for government" passed...its scarey...in 3 years we will be in bad shape...in debt...private jobs leaving...economy dying...all because of the high taxes..and inefficent government workers...remember you can't fire them or lay them off..they just keep expanding...and a 7% increase is a cut in funding.... if it was supposed to be 7.3%
Whatever happened to the state that was once solidly conservative?
Just what I was talking about. Thanks. I can't wait for a fellow GOPer to complain about high taxes now.
Amazing.
My chin hit the desk when I read this. I am literally speechless. America is no longer the Land of Liberty and opportunity at least not all of it. When people start encouraging centralized big Government so transparently, we have lost our way.
We already have "term limits". They are called "elections".
Idiots...
They could have funded the budget with the miney they spent getting this passed.
Next time have a ballot initiative that allows the individual to choose whether they want to keep their OWN rebate check or give it back to the government. Just send out a form that says, "If you would like for the government to keep your rebate, then sign the enclosed form and return it within 10 days."
Sickening...
The last sentence is deceptive, it implies that "millions more than 7.5 million" were spent by opponents, but that's false; the opponents spent only ~2 million. Although it isn't a lie, because 2 million is "millions more". It's just deceptive.
So much for taxpayer's rights, and so much for campaign finance reform, too.
I have yet to meet the government that tells its subjects "We have enough money, we have enough power, and we have enough laws."
As for the "ratchet down" effect - recessions are real. When a recession hits a family, their income drops and they must cut spending. When a business is hit, it must scale back - or go out of business. But somehow "conservative" Owens claims that it's a flaw in TABOR that the government should somehow be subject to the same force; no matter how bad the economy is, no matter how little money people have to pay taxes, government spending must never, ever go down.
In all seriousness, it's become a hotbed of illegals. There was a post here on FR a couple of weeks ago that said that CO had the highest percentage of illegal mothers giving birth in the country -- even higher than CA or TX.
I was in Denver about a month ago. In some ways it was indeed showing the signs of a place that is completely overrun with illegals -- a guy selling tamales out of the back of his truck in a strip-mall parking lot, geez I thought that that was extreme even for San Jose.
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