Denver November 2004 Election
The 'Ol Coyote's state representitive, Jerry Frangas, showed up, along with Freda Poundstone, to deliver petitions to the Secretary of State's office, to get the coveted top line on November's ballot for their initiative challenge to a law restricting home buyers in suing builders for home defects, according to the Rocky Mountain News [June 10, 2004, "Petitions for spot on ballot delivered"].
A fix for the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights (TABOR), may or may not be on the fall ballot, according to the Denver Post [June 10, 2004, "Activist's cash fuels push for fiscal fix"]. Rutt Bridges, who briefly flirted with a run for the U.S. Senate earlier this year, has donated a $100,000 to help alter the law. Denver's favorite slumlord and author of TABOR, Douglas Bruce is quoted as saying that the plan is a, "dream by a bunch of collectivist drips. I'm going to oppose it, and it's going to get buried."
Here's an article from the Cortez Journal about last Saturday's Republican State Assembly. From the article, "Heavy political hitters were up to bat Saturday for their MVP in the run for Senate during Republican State Convention festivities at the City Lights Pavilion center. Leading off were Sen. Wayne Allard and former Sen. Bill Armstrong, who chose to side with candidate Bob Schaffer. Gov. Bill Owens and outgoing lawmakers Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell and U.S. Rep. Scott McInnis made their pitch for Pete Coors. There were 3,407 delegates eligible for the swaying, and Schaffer earned top billing on the state's Aug. 10 primary ballot by garnering 61.3 percent. Coors, who entered the race approximately two months ago, finished with 38.6 percent."
The U.S. Supreme Courts's decision to not take the Colorado Congressional redistricting case is the subject of this article from the Cortez Journal. From the article, "A fractured court refused to consider replacing that map with a GOP-drafted redistricting plan, a defeat for Republicans who have sought to reopen the boundary-drawing process in several states to protect their control of the House. The Colorado Supreme Court had ruled last December that Republicans violated the state Constitution by pushing a new map through the Legislature just a year after a judge had redrawn the boundaries. District drawing may be done only once a decade, the court decided. Justices refused Monday to consider an appeal of that decision. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas wrote separately to say the court was wrong not to hear the case."
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