Denver November 2004 Election
Prominent hispanics were in Colorado yesterday trying to get voter turnout numbers up amongst hispanic voters, according to the Denver Post [September 21, 2004, "Latinos on a drive for Dems"]. From the article, "Dolores Huerta, co-founder of United Farmworkers of America, used the tour to rail against the war in Iraq, which she said is being fought largely by Hispanic soldiers..In addition to Huerta, participants included California Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante; Mickey Ibarra, a former aide to President Clinton; Texas Rep. Ciro Rodriguez, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus; and actress Eva Longoria. U.S. census figures show there are nearly 40 million Latinos in the country, making them the largest minority group. As former Denver Mayor Federico Peña tells it, only 45 percent of the 350,000 Hispanics eligible to vote in Colorado are registered. Of those, he added, only 44 percent voted in 2000." Here's the coverage from the Rocky Mountain News [September 21, 2004, "Hispanics slam Bush"].
Here's an article, from the Denver Post, about Ballot Issue 4B which would continue the sales tax for the Scientific and Cultural District [September 21, 2004, "Cultural groups bank on SCFD tax"]. From the article, "The district collects a penny on every $10 spent in a seven-county metro tax district and redistributes the $35 million in annual revenue to more than 300 organizations. Right now, the "Big Four" cultural institutions in Denver receive at least one-fourth of their operating budget from the tax - the Denver Zoo, the Denver Art Museum, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and the Denver Botanic Gardens. If approved, the boundaries of the taxing district will expand to include another third of Douglas County, bringing up to $3 million a year more into SCFD coffers with the addition of Lone Tree and Park Meadows mall. Voters established the district in 1988 and reauthorized it in 1994. The sales tax brings in an average of $15 a year from every resident in the district, which includes all of Denver, Broomfield, Jefferson and Boulder counties and parts of Adams and Douglas counties. Voters in November will decide whether to add all of Adams to the district while giving Castle Rock and Larkspur the option to join the district with local voters' approval. The tax is set to expire in 2006 unless voters extend it another 12 years, a scenario that smaller organizations don't want to imagine."
Amendment 37 would be a big winner if the election were held today, according to the Rocky Mountain News [September 21, 2004, "State voters want renewable energy"]. From the article, "A resounding majority of Coloradans want some of their electricity to come from renewable sources such as the sun, wind and plant and animal waste, according to a Rocky Mountain News/News 4 poll. Of the 500 registered voters who were polled, 74 percent said they approve of Amendment 37, while 19 percent said they disapprove and the remaining 7 percent said they didn't know." The Rocky has a companion article with a lot of detail [September 21, 2004, "Electricity is in air as voters take charge of Amendment 37"].
Amendment 35 is the subject of this article from the Rocky Mountain News [September 21, 2004, "Coloradans fired up for tobacco initiative"]. From the article, "In the survey, 65 percent of respondents said they planned to vote "yes" on the tax, 33 percent said "no." Two percent were undecided or didn't answer. The poll was conducted for the Rocky Mountain News and News 4 by Public Opinion Strategies, which interviewed 500 registered voters. Conducted Sept. 12 and 13, the poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.33 percentage points."
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