Posted by
NOTLEGALROADKILLYET on Thursday, February 08, 2007 2:53:50 PM
. . . in my very easy task of discrediting the Denver Post editorial board.
The Denver Post almost never thinks its editorial positions through thoroughly. They brought us the "moderate" Bill Ritter, the DA Carol Chambers Show Trial, and Amendment 41. We will let Vince Carroll of the
Rocky Mountain News take it from here:
Amendment 41, The Denver Post acknowledged Wednesday, was "plagued by vague wording, as citizen initiatives often are . . ."
Would this be the same Amendment 41 that the Post endorsed less than four months ago? Yes, indeed - and with nary a word of warning as to the muddiness of the text.
By the way, the amendment's chief financial backer, Jared Polis, is more direct. He now acknowledges the amendment is "poorly worded" (not vaguely worded), which is true. There is nothing whatever vague, after all, about an amendment that bars government workers, spouses and dependents from accepting any "gift or thing of value" unless it is "given by an individual who is a relative or personal friend of the recipient on a special occasion" (my emphasis). This is the draconian pure essence of the measure the Post freely chose to support, and which it now insists the legislature must defang by ignoring the plain meaning of its language.