The Durango Herald
Legislators have killed a ballot initiative to make it harder to amend the Colorado Constitution. Supporters might try to put it on the ballot through a citizens’ campaign, said Sen. Ellen Roberts, R-Durango, a co-sponsor of the measure. Both chambers of the Legislature passed Senate Concurrent Resolution 1 in February, but with a trivial difference that kept it hung up for 75 days. Legislators of both parties complain that voters amend the constitution too much.
A state ballot initiative to raise taxes and create five income-tax brackets sustained a one-month delay Wednesday. Initiative 7 has been flying under the radar since a progressive group filed it in June. A Wednesday hearing of the three-member Title Board was its first big test. But the board threw out the initiative before it conducted a hearing on its merits because the sponsors made late changes.
Conservative activists asked a federal judge Wednesday to overturn a state law on ballot petitions. U.S. District Judge Phillip Brimmer isn’t likely to rule until Friday at the earliest. Each passing day makes it harder for Jon Caldara to gather signatures for his ballot initiative to overturn the federal health-care reform law in Colorado.