January 14, 2010 05:57 PM UTC

Dave Balmer Doesn't Want You to Know

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• by: Colorado Pols

An amusing example of the sort of dumb partisan “gotchas” we’ll be seeing an unfortunate lot of in this election year’s legislative session, check out Rep. Dave “The Resume” Balmer’s HB10-1079.

The bill prohibits the use of public moneys for any physical signage indicating that a project is being funded by the federal “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.”

That’s a hell of a thing, isn’t it? Makes sense, though: key to the GOP’s 2010 electoral strategy is the ceaseless effort to portray the stimulus as “a failure,” an amorphous wasteful expenditure that helps somebody else, not you. And yeah, a sign down the street saying the road repairs you’ve been complaining about for years are finally being done thanks to “teh stimulus” inspires a personal recognition of value that Republicans won’t find convenient at all.

Solution: ban those signs! See, it’s not helping you!