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This November, Proposition CC will ask Colorado voters to permanently lift the spending limits in the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, but the political stakes embedded in the question are even more consequential. The ballot question represents the most significant overhaul to TABOR since voters approved the constitutional provision in 1992, and serves as a test case for a broader Democratic effort to overhaul how the state levies taxes and spends money. If voters approve Prop. CC, Democratic leaders and their allies believe it would give them momentum for a broader agenda to revamp property tax rates, increase taxes for key...

Colorado Treasurer Dave Young says Galindo recall effort ‘raises serious questions’ News | April 7, 2019 Tyler Silvy tsilvy@greeleytribune.com Amid a backdrop of calls for secession and a push for the recall of numerous Democratic state legislators, a House District 50 Democrat voted for a controversial firearms bill, as well as numerous changes to oil and gas regulations. That Democrat wasn’t Rochelle Galindo, the current House District 50 representative who is now the subject of a recall effort. It was former District 50 Rep. Dave Young, who never encountered a recall effort. A Tribune review of Young’s votes from the...