CO-04 (Special Election)
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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%↓
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
90%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
90%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
(R) Ron Hanks
40%
30%
20%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
30%↑
15%↑
10%↓
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Dave Williams
(R) Jeff Crank
50%↓
50%↑
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
90%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) Brittany Pettersen
85%↑
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Janak Joshi
60%↑
35%↓
30%↑
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
February 13, 2010 09:32 PM UTC
21 Comments
This issue was defeated so resoundly in 2008 it is a waste of everyone’s time and money to rehash it.
Once the SoS rules the signatures are insufficient, the proponents will have another 2 weeks (I think it’s 2 weeks) to get moe signatures to attempt to cure the deficiency.
Maybe not dead yet.
They should have been able to get all the signatures they needed on a couple of Sundays if they had the support of the megachurches. I think they don’t want another landslide defeat two years in a row. The same reason we didn’t see a repeal of the marriage ban in 2008.
Doesn’t want this kind of ballot question this year.
They are trying to run away from this kind of social agenda as they know it has hurt them in the past. Their hope this year is that people will focus on fiscal matters and they can run on a faux populist agenda.
This is completely different from earlier times when they WANTED this kind of social issue on the ballot as they thought it drove their base to the polls. Problem now is they don’t have a base and need to appeal to RINOs and Indies.
It took a couple of attempts to figure out how to misstate, lie and not provide full information about what the “destroy Colorado” initiative was all about and what it would do.
were actually defeated EIGHT times, beginning in 1966, before one finally passed in 1992. Bruce had a role in only the last three.
and then change the rule so that not only single issue but some other technicality making it really hard to change the egg-people thing.
Does anybody know if they used volunteers or paid petition circulators? It looks like this “eggmendment” is dead for the time being but you can bet it will come back – and it is an abuse of the initiative process. The initiative as envisioned by Hiram Johnson was supposed to be a way for citizens to take back a measure of control of their government. Instead, it has become a vehicle for well financed interest groups to saddle the state with special interest legislation.
What is certain is they have not reported their contributions and expenditures whether or not they paid circulators. There are photos on their website of them sending out pre-printed mailings in a quarter where their income and expenditures were reported as something like two bucks. Apparently postage, printing, and paper are free for Christians or something.
I use to sign all petitions because I thought the voting public had a right to have a say in the getting legislation passed but they have abused the privilege so often I first read the petition and if it’s something I will vote yes on I sign it. If not I decline and try to make them ashamed they asked me to sign on to something so idiotic. And their have been a lot of corporate sponsored vote against your own interest petitions floating around in the past ten years.
They didn’t seem paid. I think they were volunteers feeling good about doing their lord’s dirty work. I’m guessing they’ll never forget my response and for that, I am proud. I AM PROUD, I TELL YA! Being mean to those people was like stealing candy from an unborn baby (but without the juices).
I think I have to read this as evidence of the dangers of posting on the blog after midnight… Which reminds me of…
Insidious Worm Makes Unauthorized Purchases When Computer User Is Drunk
I thought it was funny at the time and I won’t admit that I still think it’s funny.
Keith Mason, supervillain cofounder of Personhood USA said that due to the “overwhelming participation nationally, [personhood usa] now has 40 operations in 40 states” or something like that…AKA they’re broke and used only volunteers this year. Not like it matters, the paid gatherers they hired last year only netted them 20% of their total effort. and whereas that would have helped clear the 110% fence they’d need to not have the SOS go through and count every single freaking siguature, they still get the 15 day cure period.
all in all folks, it might not fucking happen this year. at least not in Colorado.
for tearing up a petition?
Was almost looking forward to voting against it again.
Thankth thilly wabbit.
The conservatives are sooooooooo dumb, that is why they are now leading all the polls as the “voice of the majority” of Americans….despite the fact that the majority of the American thought they had elected a Democratic Congress and Administration.
What could the broad strategy for the Republicans possibly be?
1) Use the abortion issue as a talking point to attack democratics and liberals on “killing the unborn”….with any luck you can toss in a few priests/prelates to condemm democrats..worth votes in marginal districts
2) Use Roe v. Wade to rail against “activist judges/justices”..see Just Vote Not campaign in Colorado against retaining ANY justices/judges.
3) Advance the talking point that Roe v. Wade should be overturned and then let each state decide for itself who is a person or not (Remember Dred Scott…if the North had just not agitated against that decision, we never would have had the War between the States.)…these personhood amendments are part of that strategy….
4) Make sure that NO Republican ever has to actually vote on the abortion question or take a stand on it…while still railing against the democrats….thus, the amendment doesn’t actually make unto the ballot or it is so badly written that Republicans can refuse to support, reluctantly, because they have some “problems with the wording.”
5) Sit back, have a drink, and watch the dems fall all over themselves making fun of the amendment.
boys and girls, I do my best to tell you what is going on…but do you listen??? nooooooo