Posted by
NOTLEGALROADKILLYET on Monday, February 19, 2007 2:16:14 PM
Well, the Rocky Mountain News is at it again. They have written an
editorial "Bailing out Common Cause" on the Jarad Polis Amendment and blamed the whole thing on Common Cause. Of course, they don't bother to mention that the State's MSM Paper, the Denver Post. endorsed the amendment, apparently without reading it. Nor do they bother to put any blame on, or even mention the name of Jarad Polis, who expected that money and this amendment could buy CO 2 when Mark Udall ran for Wayne Allard's seat.
Now, I see that
the authors of HB 1304, Rep. Rosemary Marshall, D-Denver, and Sen. Steve Ward, R-Littleton, justify their bill with lofty references to what "the voters intended."
Well, I have news. The voters intended to vote for a bill whose title sounded good, and that is all. They got much more than they bargained for, but Marshall and Ward are going to fix everything. It is a shame that they have to tear up and throw away the principle of constitutional government to do it.
While the Rocky does not like HB 1304, it has a different opinion (and a different editorial-
Following Voter Wishes) on SB 188.
Once again, Jarad Polis' name is missing from the editorial. Millionaires who mess up as badly as Polis did deserves the maximum amount of exposure. It discourages them from doing it again.