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Posts Tagged Amendment 56

Voting on Election Day in Colorado? Here’s what you need to know

By | 11.04.08 | 6:00 am

It will likely take planning, preparation and perseverance to get through the longest ballot in Colorado history amid unprecedented turnout for the historic 2008 election. Even though more than half of the state’s active voters have already cast a ballot, it all comes down to Election Day, when as many as one million Colorado residents will trek to their local polling place and exercise their right to vote.

Ballot issues endorsement watch

By | 11.03.08 | 8:54 am

Colorado’s gargantuan ballot includes more than 14 constitutional amendments and referenda even after four measures were withdrawn on Oct. 2 by proponents after a surprise alliance of labor and business interests joined forces to oppose three anti-union amendments that remain. The Colorado Independent is putting the press to the test — we’re compiling newspaper endorsements, analyzing them and then tracking the persuasive talents of editorial boards statewide.

Labor-business alliance pledges to kill three anti-union measures

By | 10.02.08 | 1:55 pm

Unions and business groups in the state announced today the formation of a massive joint campaign against three anti-union initiatives on the state ballot, following an agreement by labor to pull four other ballot questions that would have strictly regulated business practices in the state.

Colorado DLC urges ‘vote no on poison pill amendments’

By | 09.23.08 | 7:57 am

A state advocacy group of conservative Democrats is stepping into the fray between business interests and unions by taking a position opposing labor-backed ballot measures that would provide workers injured on the job with stronger legal rights and require employers to state a “just cause” for firing an employee.

Union campaign spends $4.6 million on media blitz, political stakes go even higher

By | 09.17.08 | 9:20 am

A Colorado labor union raised more than $3.2 million in the last two weeks for a campaign to support two ballot proposals regulating safe business practices and to oppose a “right-to-work” measure supported by pro-business interests. Nearly all of the money has been committed to purchase media advertisements across the state in what appears to be an unprecedented pull-out-all-the-stops campaign by the union.

Salazar, Perlmutter oppose ‘right-to-work’ measure

By | 09.15.08 | 3:40 pm

Democratic U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, a politician known for his moderate stances in Washington, D.C., joined U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-Golden) in breaking the usual political protocol of not wading into local issues to oppose Amendment 47, a “right-to-work” state ballot measure that would restrict the way labor unions organize.

Colorado ballot includes many a union-related measure

By | 09.12.08 | 2:12 pm

Colorado’s 18 issue Herculean ballot this year — the longest in the nation, wouldn’t you know — can be credited, in part, to people who love and hate unions. There are a total of seven labor-related ballot issues that will be put to beleaguered voters this November. We’ll top off our ballot round up Monday with three of them.

Colorado voters face longest ballot in 96 years

By | 09.04.08 | 8:45 am

Colorado voters haven’t faced a ballot this long since 1912, the first year citizens were able to initiate laws in the state. After striking a pro-affirmative action measure for insufficient signatures Wednesday night, the Secretary of State’s office drew a line under a total 18 statewide questions for the November ballot — 14 initiated by citizens and four referred by the State Legislature.

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