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Ritter takes off the gloves with new Amendment 58 ad

By | 09.26.08 | 9:14 am

Gov. Bill Ritter’s office stepped up the intensity of the Amendment 58 debate Thursday, sending out a signed e-mail touting A Smarter Colorado’s new television ad and asking voters to share it with friends in a bid to end the state’s “outdated tax subsidy for oil and gas companies.”

Oil sector taps $10.3 million to sway Colorado voters on two ballot issues

By | 09.23.08 | 7:29 am

Even as a shadowy conservative group backed by oil and gas money works to reclaim a state Senate majority for Republicans in 2010, other issues committees are taking a much more direct approach to fighting off attempts to end tax subsidies for the industry in November.