WEDNESDAY UPDATE: 9NEWS’ Kyle Clark gave this the proper treatment last night:
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UPDATE: Apparently she means it:
Now would seem to be the time.
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Former GOP Colorado Sen. Laura “Waters” Woods of Arvada smells a rat!
It’s possible but unlikely. Just as in CO, we killed all state-wide tax increases but voted in Dems overwhelmingly. Maybe fraudulent ballots only fill in the dots for people but not issues? Seems like voter fraud here too. #VoterID #VoterFraud https://t.co/o8Cgnpu7Sw
— Laura Woods (@SenLauraWoods) November 13, 2018
If we’re understanding the theory here correctly, because Colorado voters swept Democrats into office at every level while simultaneously voting down the Amendment 73 and Proposition 110 tax increases on the ballot, it “seems like” voter fraud took place in Colorado. This dreadfully oversimplified illogic ignores Colorado’s long history of sending complicated or even contradictory messages at the polls.
Not to mention that Colorado has a Republican Secretary of State who would likely have objected.
But more fundamentally, you just don’t jump to the wild conclusion of “voter fraud” based on something this thin unless you’re completely unhinged to begin with–and during Sen. Woods’ time in the legislature, from baseless warnings of “vaccination roundups” to raging on Planned Parenthood in the wake of the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting, she helped anchor the unhinged wing of the GOP Senate caucus. With that in mind, it’s completely in character.
Colorado as we have known and loved it forever will be forever changed. True conservatives who can will move away in the coming
— Laura Woods (@SenLauraWoods) November 7, 2018
Weeks? Months? Whichever it is, this could be the one way to make everybody happy.
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Laura "Waters" Woods, Wyoming beckons for thee. Oh, and take your friend Timmeh Neville with you.
Also, is your updated tweet a promise?
Well, hopefully in 2021, she will be moved to a FEMA reëducation camp.
Goddess, you sure do love you some diuretics, or whatever that frigging punctuation is.
diaeresis
diarrhea is more accurate
What a mo . . .
. . . deratus ??!!
LWW will probably never realize or admit just how much she, and her silly band of numbskull ilksters, contributed to the liberal “takeover” this cycle?
Thanks Laura! And, thanks for leaving now, too!!
I hope the door does hit her in the butt on her way out.
Perhaps all the out of work organizers would be willing to load a few moving vans? Maybe we could start "Two Dems and a Truck" to help them out (of the state)?
Just a gofundmethehellouttahere page
Good riddance to bad
watersrubbish.There were lots of reasons to vote against various state tax increases. Why, even some on this very board were advocating voting in favor of only a couple of the initiatives ("X is better than Sex" was a catchy slogan) and killing the rest.
I understand there is some sentiment for letting a new and improved legislature take a shot at actually legislating some sort of COMPREHENSIVE solution to our revenue situation, then letting voters express themselves on the better solution.
Plus,74 and 109 were noxious far right plans. With $50 million or so being spent to promote no votes, there does tend to be a general vote no feeling.
You were on a bit of a roll there (sort of), right up until that “take a shot at actually legislating some sort of COMPREHENSIVE solution to our revenue situation”. At which point, it seems that you completely forgot that we are still living in Taborado, including that nifty single-subject proviso, and that it would be all but Constitutionally impossible to ever have any COMPREHENSIVE revenue solution in this state?
The best way to clean this all up would be a constitutional convention.
As tempting as that is (I'd personally like to be able to recall, say, Cory Gardner, or to make dark money in politics illegal), the folks who want to call a constitutional convention are generally not those you'd want to stand with politically.
Taking away birthright citizenship , states being able to defy any Federal law they don't like, laws promoting industries at the expense of human life – these are all risks with a constitutional convention.
David is talking about a state constitutional convention, mj.
A state constitutional convention would be … um, interesting. It would depend upon who were the delegates. We could get rid of TABOR, or we could get something worse (i.e., "There shall never be any tax increase of any kind in the state of Colorado or in any of its subdivisions").
Or perhaps the religious zealots would show up with yet another attempt to impose "personhood" on the state.
Only a few years ago the thought of a state constitutional convention would have almost certainly ended in a nightmare of RRR utopia with unborn super-citizens, mandatory gun ownership, and a drowned perpetually dying government.
I'm not convinced that calling such a convention would be safe yet.
Fixed it for ya.
or gold-pooping unicorns distrcating everyone for a few minutes, while Tesla tunnels Fort Collins to Pueblo through a wormhole with a flame thrower that is not a flame thrower.
FOr real- a Constitutional COnvention would ruin us..
Rejecting TABOR would be a single subject.
Rejecting Gallagher would be a single subject.
Throw in a separate effort to repeal School Finance Act of 1994.
Get rid of Amendment 23, and any other arbitrary formulas (I'm certain there are more I'm not thinking of) are incorporated into the Constitution.
Develop an alternative to cap the overall state and local revenue, with protections for low income, low wealth, and low corporate revenues. Add a phase in period to allow for a transition from what we've got to what we should have.
I'm not certain the various parts of the package could pass — but doing nothing ought to be considered intolerable.
“Rejecting TABOR would be a single subject.”
Nope.
It’s a legal Hydra.
Unfortunately, dio is right. Tabor amended several sections of the constitution. It actually spawned the single subject rule.
The votes aren't there today, at least not in the last poll I heard tell of, but what beyond "Shall Section 20 of Article X of the Colorado Constitution be repealed and replaced with a hand, middle finger extended, with a tattoo reading 'Doug Bruce'," do you think is needed? Sounds like a single subject to me.
There's a template already drafted from Senate Concurrent Resolution 10-001. It called for creation of a Constitutional Review Commission (not a convention), limited to fiscal issues including but not limited to TA___ (I can't call it a BOR), Am-23 and Gallagher (the Big 3). Under this, voters would have to pass a temporary exception to single-subject as part of authorizing the commission, though No Doubt this could be a tough sell to some voters, and the whole thing would now need 55% approval. The commission would then be able to draft comprehensive proposals, with each one again to go before voters and in most cases probably needing 55%. Not a panacea, but amending/repealing parts or all of any one of the Big 3 without touching the others might lead to imbalanced solutions.
Sounds like a workable solution, though it would need a lot of work to convince that 55% majority.
Could not a set of amendments be put on the ballot that would be dependent on the others passing? That might gain more trust of voters than an open ended commission, particularly if it is a Tabor replacement instead of a total repeal.
Also, as I recall, our new 55% majority does not apply to repeals. Is Tabor locked in because it is not single subject and so cannot be simply repealed?
DEN – regarding your 3rd paragraph, it's my understanding that Bruce's Brainchild is multiple subject and would need to be repealed via multiple measures. Maybe this question deserves a fresh legal analysis though. The other problem, anecdotally, is I've heard that, among the multiple subjects, the requirement to vote on tax increases is popular. This might make it tough to pass a blanket repeal, maybe even at 50%.
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Them moving out of Colorado is (probably) an empty threat on their part, just like people threatening to move to Canada over who wins the Presidency.
We can hope!
We can, but I wouldn't want to inflict them upon anyone else.
Up until last Tuesday, I would have gleefully pawned them off on Kansas but they seem to, finally, coming to their senses.
Nebraska? Missouri? One of the Dakotas? West Virginia? Arkansas?
There's always Mississippi.
My vote is for Wyoming. Electing two Cheneys seals it.
Only if we can carve out Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons and put them with Montana. Jackson Hole along with them.
In Idaho, even Nutter would be considered a flaming liberal squish.
And if Jackson Hole gets any bigger, they'll turn the state blue all on their own
Nutter still hasn't surfaced?
While he has no shame, he can be humiliated. Guess we'll see what his tolerance for having his batting a thousand on picking GOP losers tossed back at him once he dares show his face again.
Oh Laura,
Yes. You CAN make Colorado better by leaving.
The voters in Arvada saw you for the ultraconservative wingnut that you were and in 2016 revoked their 2014 election of you to the senate.
I'll never forget seeing the video of your leading the "Lock Her Up" cry at a Trump rally in 2016. Guess you're continuing on your "no evidence" bandwagon…Lock her up…vote fraud.
Geez. Best wishes in your move.
Delighted Doremi
Ah! But libs aren't taking over until 2019, so I'm guessing we're still going to be stuck with her.
I am surprised that 73 failed. Most voters in the state make far less than $150,000 per year. Why would working class voters not want a graduating tax scale that taxes the wealthy at a higher rate than those struggling to make ends meet?
Because there was no guarantee that the money to be raised by 73 would be spent wisely.
It added complexity to an already absurd situation, it wasn't neatly understandable what the consequences were, it had a tax increase, it was an amendment, and it was citizen initiated legislation.
Success in this arena is likely to be a referred measure that cleans up the state budget situation and is saleable (i.e. clear simple and sure). It will still have a tax increase and it will still be an amendment to change budget allocation, but it will remove other uncertainties.
I’m not surprised. People do not like paying taxes in general absent a compelling reason. And many people – realistically or otherwise – believe they will some day be in that higher tax bracket.
cause no one understood it.
And we all hope we too will get to income that would then be taxed (just like the estate tax) and … 🙁 because the left will talk… but the walk is tough
lol Laura "Waters"
Happy trails, fare thee well, and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, ya sociopathic piece of shit.
I'm with the Cook on this one. I want the door to hit her skanky butt on the way out!
I want to throw water on her and see if she melts.
You can almost hear Woods going all Margaret Hamilton.
"You cursed brat! Look what you've done! I'm melting! Melting! Oh, what a world! What a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?"
Is there a fund we can contribute to to move these folks out? I'd chip in! That'd be money well spent!
there is – in a way
All th einfrastructure that hasn't been maintained is the taxes they skated on, and tht the rest of us who stay to work and build the state have to make up for.
Meanwhile – whe she and other whiney crrybaby RWNJ forget – there is no perfect place
They're going to hate everywhere else.
Wyoming: way higher extraction (severance) taxes
Alaska: severance taxes fund the totally socialist Permanent Fund
Mississippi: well, as beautiful as it is and as much as most them would overlook the negatives – it's got humiidty, HUGE underemployment, no wage base to grift off and tons of color
Florida: uh… nuh uh
Arkansas: maybe… seriously whatinhell is wrong with Arkansas? Load the truck and move Beverly… Arkansas.
Overlooked in all the hoopla about the Woods/Waters Twitter feed is the comment by far right wing provocateur Dinesh D'Souza: "It is possible that GOP voters went for Sinema. But very improbable. This demands a serious examination."
But I read that newly re-elected Republican Governor Doug Ducey said there was no sign of voter fraud in AZ.
You mean Dinesh D'Felon?
Mcsally sux. and voters saw it and said… no.
Trump sux watermelons through a ga rden hose — and he's president.