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That’s the word from Daniel Chacon at the Colorado Springs newspaper–anti-tax activist, landlord, secretive ballot measure mastermind, and author of 1992’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) amendment Doug Bruce will run for a seat on the Springs City Council. Along with just about everyone in the state, Bruce has butted heads with the Springs city […]

Now there’s a headline you always knew was coming. The Colorado Springs Gazette’s Eileen Welsome has been covering the emergent story of three state ballot initiatives–Amendments 60, 61 and Proposition 101–for which a large and costly petition campaign was obviously mounted, but no expenses were ever reported. Efforts to get to the bottom of this […]

As the Colorado Springs Gazette reports: A Colorado Springs municipal judge Friday postponed a trespassing trial for Douglas Bruce and a fellow anti-tax activist after prosecutors argued the jury pool had been tainted by a man handing out leaflets in front of the courthouse. The leaflets, according to Colorado Springs spokesman John B. Leavitt, told […]

Not unexpectedly, the Pueblo Chieftain reports: Three measures that may reach the 2010 ballot would be devastating to the state’s finances, Sen. Abel Tapia said. The Pueblo Democrat and long-time member of the Legislature’s Joint Budget Committee, said Tuesday that three proposed ballot questions pushed by tax-crusader Douglas Bruce would not only hurt the state’s […]