What is Amendment 49? Tune In Tonight to Find Out!
A scheduling change for Must See TV: We’ve had a bit of a schedule change for tonight’s Independent Thinking. Due to early voting, we feel it is important to analyze a key ballot measure. Tonight we discuss Amendment 49, Colorado’s Ethical Standards Initiative. Amendment 49 is very simple; it prohibits governments from bundling money from public employees’ paychecks and delivering the cash to special interests who use it to lobby politicians. Need a more simple explanation, one that even sock puppets can understand? Check out our video.
II policy analyst Ben DeGrow and teacher Michael Alcorn join me for the “debate.” I can’t really call it a debate because the opponents wouldn’t come on the show. No matter how often I ask; no matter sweetly I ask — even bringing flowers and chocolates; the left still rejects all my invitations. Since no opponents had the courage to defend their position, we challenge each other and utimately all come to the same conclusion that the Rocky Mountain News, Boulder Daily Camera, Denver Post, Pueblo Chieftain, Colorado Springs Gazette, NFIB, NCLA, Colorado Farm Bureau, Hank Brown, Bill Owens and many more did. Amendment 49 is good government. Tune in tonight at 7:30 p.m. to KBDI Channel 12; repeated next Tuesday evening at 5 p.m.
