From The Cortez Journal: "The House voted 58-6 Tuesday for a proposed constitutional amendment backed by Rep. Ellen Roberts, R-Durango. The Senate followed with a 26-9 vote, meaning the question will go to voters in the November election. The measure, Senate Concurrent Resolution 3 [pdf], would raise the number of signatures that a citizens group needs to collect to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot to about 93,000. Groups would have to collect 8 percent of their signatures from each of Colorado's seven Congressional districts. Roberts and other proponents reached a truce Monday with environmental groups that had been fighting the measure. It calls for petitioners to get 8 percent of their signatures in each of the state's seven Congressional districts -- down from 10 percent per district in the original bill. Environmentalists complained that only wealthy groups could have met the 10 percent requirement. Under the compromise, campaigns would have to gather about 7,500 signatures in each district."
Category: Denver November 2008 Election
8:00:57 AM 
|
|
