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While early and mail-in voting continues, I once again have made a couple small updates to Ben’s Colorado Ballot Guide 2008 - including a new link. Check it out, and share the word with any voters still uninformed or undecided about the 14 issues on the statewide ballot.

More links and information have been added to my guide to the 2008 Colorado ballot. If there are any initiatives or referenda on which you’re undecided, I invite you to please check it out.

I’ve just updated my 2008 guide to the Colorado ballot to include a link to a new website with all the main reasons why you need to Vote No on Amendment 59 (H/T The Daily Blogster). Quite simply, big-spending liberal politicians want to take away your TABOR refunds forever - and they’re deceptively hiding behind schoolchildren to do it.

So in case you needed the simple reminder, please Vote No on Amendment 59 and avoid getting ripped off.

If you have yet to visit my page with information and recommendations on the long list of initiatives and referenda on Colorado’s 2008 ballot, now is the time to stop by. After all, thanks to the clever and capable stylings of Colorado cartoonist Ben Hummel, the page is now illustrated!

With four measures pulled off the ballot and a new guide to link to, I have updated my Colorado Ballot 2008 page this morning. Please be sure to check it out for the latest.

Due to the unrivaled success of providing a guide to Colorado’s 2006 ballot measures, and an even larger slate of Initiatives and Referenda to consider, I give you Ben’s guide to the Colorado ballot for 2008. The author is solely responsible for the opinions contained therein.

I think Colorado’s Democratic powerhouses behind Amendment 59 need to get on the same page. It was only last month that State Treasurer Cary Kennedy was overheard saying that Amendment 59 will “drive a stake in the heart” of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights.

In yesterday’s Denver Post, however, outgoing House Speaker Andrew Romanoff sought to argue that under Amendment 59 “‘the heart’ of TABOR — that all tax increases must have voter approval — would be preserved.”

Uncle Charley came to the valid conclusion:

Romanoff and Kennedy need to talk to each other: How do you preserve TABOR’s heart after a stake has been driven through it?

Exactly. Someone needs to cartoon this… If you’re going to take away all future TABOR refunds forever, I at least need to be able to laugh at your self-defeating contradictions on the way there.

In case you had any doubts about the intentions of leading Colorado Democrats in bringing forward Amendment 59, Education Week brings you the straight skinny (H/T Rocky Mountain Right):

Colorado Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff praised the [National Education Association]’s state chapter as one of the “most aggressive and successful” groups assisting Democrats in their takeover Colorado’s Statehouse and governor’s mansion. State Treasurer Cary Kennedy (no relation to RFK Jr.) said that Democrats would win a ballot initiative to “drive a stake in the heart” of the state’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights [TABOR]–a conservative cost-cutting measure.

Yes, the Democrats behind Amendment 59 - Andrew Romanoff and Cary Kennedy - want to stick it to the taxpayer in the service of their liberal interest group masters (read: Colorado Education Association). While anyone who has been paying attention understands Romanoff’s and Kennedy’s basic intentions, it is somewhat surprising to see their unguarded opinions reported in black and white.