Denver November 2005 Election
Ed Quillen weighs in on last week's budget compromise in his column in today's Denver Post [March 22, 2005, "The big, bad tax increase"]. He writes, "With great fanfare last week, Republican Gov. Bill Owens and Democratic leaders of the legislature agreed to support the Colorado Economic Recovery Act, which will be on the ballot this fall as Referendum C. It doesn't violate TABOR, the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights written into our state constitution. TABOR requires a public vote to raise government income above a certain level based on monetary inflation, population growth and last year's budget. And that's what we're getting: a public vote. Nonetheless, our governor has been condemned by various fire-breathers in his own party because he supports allowing us to vote on whether the state government should be allowed to spend money that would otherwise be refunded to us."
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