Colorado Supreme Court Double-Crosses Colorado Voters
Ah yes – it’s for the children. The subterfuge of scurrilous scoundrels since time immemorial…
However, our lawmakers and scoundrel-in-chief-executive Gov. Bill Ritter would be powerless to perpetrate the passage of this double-cross if not aided and abetted by the unjust justices of the Colorado Supreme Court. Recall that it was the Mullarkey ruling on the Mill Levy Tax Freeze case that enabled the legislature to seize over $117 million in tax payments (and counting) from Colorado voters – without asking them first, as required by the plain language of the Colorado Constitution.
Bill Ritter, of course, praised the court’s decision: “But the real winners today are Colorado’s children…” despite the fact that “none of the funds are actually earmarked specifically for schools. The extra revenue from the mill levy rate freeze flows directly into the state’s general fund.”
So why is this a double-cross?
The Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling – and subsequent actions by the governor and the majority in the state legislature – has retroactively made liars out of honest, honorable public servants. Many of them have already expressed outrage – it was, after all, the Mesa County board who were the named plaintiffs in the suit challenging this travesty of a law – and many others are quietly seething. ALL of them have suffered a loss of trust with the voters they represent…
NOW the state legislature – with the assumed complicity of the governor and Colorado Supreme Court – is acting to block any attempt by local officials to salvage their good name, honor, and integrity by going back to the voters to allow them to have a say on their original intent:
Really? Ensure that your legislators (the House is hearing the bill this week) and Governor Bill Ritter hear your voice and know your will as a voter in opposing this end-run around your rights.
And in 2010 – DON’T GIVE YOUR APPROVAL to the Colorado Supreme Court majority that made this possible. Vote “NO” on retaining the four “unjust justices” – Mullarkey, Bender, Martinez, and Rice – who have conspired to take away your constitutional rights.
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