A few weeks ago, Clear The Bench Colorado Director Matt Arnold met with Law Week Colorado’s Don Knox (formerly of the late, lamented Rocky Mountain News) for an interview discussing the grassroots movement to restore accountability to Colorado’s Judiciary.  That interview was published online this Sunday (26 July 2009) on the State Bill Colorado website.

A few excerpts:

Matt Arnold, who is calling his 2010 campaign “Clear The Bench,” landed upon his idea in the weeks following the high court’s decision earlier this year in Mesa County Bd. of County Comm’rs v. Colorado.
Because of that ruling, written by Mullarkey, Colorado lawmakers are free to increase state revenue by more than $2 billion by repealing tax credits and exemptions most had considered untouchable under the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, or TABOR. …

“I was absolutely outraged at not only the ruling but the pretense of legal logic that accompanied that ruling,” Arnold said of the high court’s March 17 decision. “I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve stayed at a few Holiday Inn Expresses, and I’m a pretty smart guy. …. I read that ruling and it did not make any sense.”
He said he also went to his lawyer friends, and it didn’t make sense to them, either.
“It had no basis in logic, and it turned the constitution completely on its head,” said Arnold, a TABOR supporter. “It substituted a preferred outcome for what the law should have been.”

Read the complete interview article to learn more about Clear The Bench Colorado and why Colorado voters should Ditch the Mullarkey Majority (Justices Michael Bender, Alex Martinez, Nancy Rice, and Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey) by voting “NO” to retain these unjust justices in 2010! 

Let’s Clear The Bench, Colorado!

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