November 21, 2006 09:19 PM UTC

Preschool Tax Expected to Pass

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• by: Colorado Pols

It looks like Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper has avoided at least one black eye from the 2006 election. Hick has been taking blame for the problems with the Denver Election Commission, but at least his pet measure of a preschool tax initiative will pass. As 9News reports:

Supporters of Referendum 1A, the preschool tax initiative, declared victory Monday.

Although the Denver Election Commission is still counting provisional ballots, the initiative is ahead by more than the number of votes left to be counted.

Losing Referendum 1A would have been a sizable chink in Hick’s political armor, which has been showing signs of rust ever since he spent months waffling on whether to run for governor.