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Not because I like it, but because it’s such a great story. I think it would make for a good movie plot. It’s actually one of the stupidest initiatives ever to be proposed.
You gotta love the doe-eyed, straight-from-central-casting 20-year-old who supposedly came up with the whole idea.
I keep hearing how poorly written it is. Written? It’s not ‘written,’ that’s why it’s so bad.
And could we call your movie The Tampon Police? That’s been my favorite slogan all season.
You can’t do that!
Just because she has always been home-schooled and goes to a “law school” that forces you to renounce science then claims her amendment has scientific backing doesn’t mean that you can censor her!
But really, I feel for her. I know she is trying to do the right thing, she just has it terribly wrong.
I hope we see more of her.
…in the bad girl swing. ;^)
thx paul
these if it passes:
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The people of the state of Colorado are too good, too moral, to allow ourselves to be 49th of 50 states in terms of the waitlist for services to our citizens with Developmental Disabilities.
Amendment 51 will cost only $.02 on every $10 spent ($.20 for each $100/ $2 for every $1000/ $20 for every $10,000) to fully fund these services and end the waitlists for services.
It is a small price to pay to increase the quality of life for these people and their families.
Vote Yes on 51
…on being told that he could buy eternal happiness merely by sending in $1, he remarked, “On second thought, I’d happier with that $1.”
What so ever you do unto these you do unto me.
My best friend who has a 24 year old autistic son had his wife commit suicide Friday. The assistance provided by this amendment extends a lot further than the penny pinchers realize.
I am so sorry for your friend and his son.
My prayers are with his family.
Statewide: 52 (Or Penry’s one, which ever that is) and 59.
On a local level, 200 and 201 because the “No” campaign has tried to make those a referendum on Doug Bruce
What better way to fund education that has nothing to do with taxes. And being a freedom lover and gambler, it gives me a lot of room to make more money in Cripple Creek and Blackhawk.
no blog plug?
you know how to beat the house
it gives you the freedom to lose even more money in the casinos. But though I have never and will never set foot in a casino, i am willing to let you and others pay a voluntary tax to help community colleges.
So, seven come eleven, baby needs college tuition, vote yes on 50.
it is a voluntary “tax”, and I mostly just play the blackjack tables, until Amend.50 passes, and we can have some more table games 🙂
…they are the zenith of shiek and beautiful people. Plus, you can smoke cigs!
I think they went non smoking Jan 1 of this year.
If you want to smoke at a casino, I’d suggest the Ute Mountain Casino.
Actually, there are one or two casinos in Black Hawk who are trying to claim Cigar Bar status; not sure how that’s working out for them.
Yes that’s two – so shoot me 🙂
The future of our state is set by the educaiton level of our citizens. You can screw just about anything else up and if you have this, we’re ok. Screw this one thing up and we’re in bad shape even if we get everything else perfect.
58: Higher-Ed scholarships from oil company profits
59: Increased K-12 funding
I’m not going to go crazy or freak out if it passes, I just think that there are better ways of funding our colleges and universities.
No matter what it was for. We should not subsidize extractive industries especially when our neighboring states like Wyoming currently charge more.
They all extract the state’s money from the proletariat that is rewarded by the state for being.
Extractive industries refers to only to the extraction of mineral resources. These sorts of resources are of limited supply. When we use up the gas, oil, iron, molybdenum, coal, or whatever its gone. If such resources are mined out or all extracted quickly then we are hurt as a state because we have all the dislocations of sudden growth and then a crash when all those jobs go away. It is simply good policy to get the maximum possible for our state from extractive industries.
Governor Ritter speaks about 58
Blue Cat has it right. I ended up voting yes on A-51 too because of liberal guilt.
that move societies forward rsb. Whatever the motivation, the result is what counts. Government and the people can choose to help the helpless and reduce suffering. That is nothing to feel guilty about.
[Placeholder until Libertad arrives]
I am glad you agree that no Coloradan should be fired because they fail to join the union. 47 is pro freedom and pro worker, it is also anti union boss and anti company boss.
You also need to add greedy Union, Corporate, and Political Bosses join in corruption to deny basic human rights and protect their inside dealt sole source contracts.
Another example on YES for 47, taken from facethestate – November 3, 2008
I never remember all of the kinds of Bosses I’m mad at for the denial of basic human rights and the ability to taste food and smell flowers. Well you do what you can.
My auto-troll script is running. I kinda feel bad my first customer was the 47 Amendment campaign, but a blogger has to make a living. I gotta say, I didn’t think they’d use the script for two accounts.
Seriously?
If you were being sarcastic, then sorry. But it seems you missed my humor too.
when
isn’t enough to trip the sarcasm meter.
That comment I didn’t see when I posted since someone else’s comment was so long.
Have you and libert been playing together?
Why Republicans are going down so hard. They are living in the past. Unions might have been a big deal 30 years ago, but today they aren’t. People don’t care about them. Sort of like the lower taxes crusade, the cursade on immigration, the cursade on abortion, and the rest of the Republican issues. They are so, like 70’s mand that no one under 50 remembers any more why there was a problem and they don’t care. This one is going down hard.
Hey 76, unions are allowed to have budgets like any organization and can spend money on social events for the membership. WOW, big news, better get Libertad out of his wide stance and call the Independence Institute. Maybe you find somebody over there who will stop lying and squawk the benefits of trickle down democracy and greed. When your amendments fail look in the mirror. Then go hot tubbing with Libertad to drown your sorrows.
The passage of 59 will not only be good for the state in terms of the additional resources it provides for critical state needs – it will also relieve some of the toxic effects of the TABOR Amendment on ballot politics in Colorado. I was initially skeptical of the timing of this measure but am now convinced that it is, yet again, evidence that the majority of the brains in Colorado reside in the heads of Cary Kennedy and Andrew Romanoff.
…or, is it Andrew?
Just a fan.
Making Constitutional Amendments harder is a good thing. There is way too much garbage on this ballot, like 47, 49, and 54. While I do not support these amendments, if they do pass, they should pass as laws, not Constitutional amendments.
But they should not pass. I am glad to see recent polling showing all of them losing, but everyone needs to go out and vote against them if they have not already.
For obvious reasons.
Term limits just conveniently placed an open seat in my district the year I turned 21. That was all I was gunning for.
It’s the smartest thing we’ve seen in a long time. Not only does it secure education funding, but it puts the whole state budget on more secure footing in the long run.
Hands-down the most important thing on the ballot.
makes me agree. I’m sick to death of pissing matches ending up in our Constitution.
I like Half Glass Full’s idea of a “favorite”, from an entertainment perspective.
The reforms implemented by Ref. O were a pet issue of mine after the last election cycle, though. The ballot and Constitution madness needs to stop. Yes on O.
I know White had been trying to work something out for years and I didn’t always care for the proposed solutions. This one’s not bad though.
But it covers most of my desires. In the future, I’d like to see another amendment to up the number of votes required for passage of a Constitutional amendment.
That way everyone thinks it through again after 2 years of all the side effects being discussed. And between the first & second election the enabling legislation can be passed.
That makes the threshold attainable, but the amount of thought going into the measure will be greater. If we can straighten out the Constitutional measures that need it before putting it in to effect, we won’t be running into a crisis which requires immediate Constitutional change.
to stop abusive and corrupt insiders and save tax payers millions of dollars.
and also to stop global warming and dissolve the federal budget deficit while whitening your teeth!
How does the polling look Bob?
The Colorado Middle class is rising against the union-busting goons behind 47 and 54, crushing their power grabs. Losing a mild but hardly vital reform like 49 is a small price to pay to smash incipient fascism in the bud.
How they come out tomorrow night.
Amendment 46-No
Amendment 47-No
Amendment 48-Fuck No
Amendment 49-No
Amendment 50-Yes
Amendment 51-Yes
Amendment 52-No (barely)
Amendment 54-No
Amendment 58-No (unfortunately)
Amendment 59-Yes
Referenda:
Ref L-No
Ref M-Yes
Ref N-Yes
Ref O-Hell Yes