I’M (STILL) WITH HER

Don’t act so surprised

I endorsed Hillary Clinton prior to caucusing for her in March, and I am returning my ballot for her at a drop off location.

KEEP IT LOW KEY

When he was appointed to fill the seat in January 2009, Michael Bennett was a relative nobody in the political word. He was the Denver School Superintendent when then-Governor Bill Ritter picked him to fill the seat vacated due to Obama picking Ken Salazar to be the Secretary of the Interior.

CLEARING THE SMOKE (COLORADO AMENDMENT 72)

Political ads on television are commonplace at this time every two years in Colorado.

One ad I have noticed talks with ranchers about this constitutional amendment that would create these new taxes, and they are not fans of it.

I also noticed a “No on 72” sign on the door of a gas station’s Kwik-e-Mart one day.

So I pulled out my phone to see what Amendment 72 is exactly.

IN GOOD CONSCIENCE (COLORADO AMENDMENT 106)

I recently had a discussion with my mother about Amendment 106, the Access to Medical Aid in Dying proposal called the Colorado End-of-Life Options Act. It is modeled after Oregon’s law that was passed in the 1997.

TAKE A STEP BACK AND LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE (COLORADO AMENDMENT 69)

TWO-FOR-ONE (COLORADO AMENDMENTS 107 & 108)

Here is a special endorsement; a two-for-one deal involving both Amendments 107 AND 108.

Both amendments deal with how the political parties deal with choosing their nominees for offices; 107 deals with the presidential primary while 108 would open the primaries for all non-presidential elections.

ON RAISING THE BAR (COLORADO AMENDMENT 71)

Here is why I support changing the signature threshold requirements for ballot initiatives.

It is because of personhood.

RAISE THE WAGE (COLORADO AMENDMENT 70)

VOTING POWER

DOWN BALLOTS MATTER (2016 EDITION)

I received my ballot in the mail last week.

While there is the top of the ticket, there are also several downballots that deserve just as much attention.

I am equally concerned about who occupies 200 East Colfax Ave ZIP Code 80206 as much as who resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and who controls Capitol Hill.

Many require a deeper analysis and I will announce my findings about those issues in several upcoming posts.

For now, these are some of elections that are on the ballot specifically in Denver that I am endorsing.

FULL DISCLOSURE, 2016 EDITION

As it was in 2012 I made a point in disclosing who I donated money to in the upcoming election campaign in part due to maintaining some credibility with my writing, give a hand to get some Democrats elected in other states, and the Citizens United decision.

I wrote a paper on Citizens United for my American Legal Systems class in college. It was not my best work. You can judge for yourself as I have posted it and other papers I wrote in college online. I eventually plan on re-writing it with updates and corrections.

Here is who I am donating money to for the 2016 election cycle.