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Trump stinks. The Nevilles stink. Cory Gardner stinks. Vicki Marble stinks. Jerry Sonnenberg stinks. Stay upwind Colorado.
Democratic lawmakers want to ask voters in 2019 to end TABOR cap, but Polis is not so sure
Makes no sense anyway.
TABOR Is great. Haven't like 20 or 25 other states also passed it? I mean, why would you oil hating stalinist idiots want to eliminate the good stuff… 'cause you hate 'merica?
I have traditionally hated TABOR in its entirety. But after last November, I’m not sure I would eliminate voting on tax increases. The other parts should go.
Right! wait – what?
The US Constitution requires states to have a democratic republic form of government – you know, where voters elect representatives and those representatives run the government. How does direct democracy do that?
Just a small correction. Neither the word "democracy" nor any of its forms appear in the Constitution. It promises every state "…in this Union a Republican Form of Government…"
TABOR votes on tax increases means that I could know from just the headline that this article would be about Colorado:
In a booming state, public schools grapple with asbestos, leaks and four-day weeks
The reality of TABOR is that getting voters to check yes in favor of anything but the most feel good measures which tax only people least able to oppose tax increases is like pushing a rope uphill. The reality of TABOR is tax increases that hurt working people and none for the rich or powerful.
The problem with 2019 is that off-year elections usually have light turnouts that are disproportionately elderly and Republican and anti-tax. I say tough it out to 2020 and ride the anti-Trump tide to a TABOR victory.
, Then let's slay that monster
I always thought h e was soft on jaywalking!
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking.
Sherrod Brown not running for president in 2020
But promises to work to elect a Democratic President (and hasn't said no to being the Veep).
I continue to think the winning formula would be a youngish, charismatic candidate at the top of the ticket, backed by someone who knows how to get stuff done in Washington as Veep.
Hickenlooper, being neither of the above, would be a fine person to drop into a Cabinet office — Interior springs to mind, but I could also see him consulting and bargaining with everyone in the Energy and Transportation spheres, too.
I actually like Sherod Brown. Left enough but not too much
I like sherrod a lot but with a Republican gov in ohio, he would cost us a seat if he became veep.
Since the Dems’ best case scenario right now is 50/50, or maybe 51/49 in favor of the Dems, VP Brown is a luxury we cannot afford
Federal Judge T.S. Ellis gave Manafort just 47 months for his crimes. Meanwhile, a black teenager double-parking got life without parole.
It's great to be a rich white guy.
Suck-up judge even said he lived a “blameless life” while helping a ukainian fascist rig elections.
Who appointed that crooked SOB?
Reagan.
The same Reagan Manafort worked for
Blameless, nevermind the string of charges showing a long-term pattern of criminality and a trail of lies committed under a plea deal to show just how penitent he was.
Blameless, in that he’s never accepted any blame, nor even yet been fingered as having any blame by the coconspirators . . .
. . . when he finally does roll on the little tangerine, or when Jared or tangerine Jr need to manufacure their GOJF cards, we’ll see Twitter-pots full of blame, believe me. Believe me.