{"id":131988,"date":"2016-11-09T07:31:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T14:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/09\/and-on-the-local-electoral-front.html"},"modified":"2016-11-09T07:31:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T14:31:50","slug":"and-on-the-local-electoral-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/09\/and-on-the-local-electoral-front.html","title":{"rendered":"And on the local electoral front"},"content":{"rendered":"

From here in the Denver metro area, things turned out … less awful than nationally.<\/p>\n

We re-elected our Democratic Senator. The Dems still ended up with a minority in the Senate, but did pick up at least one seat there, leaving them just a scosh down from the center point. I'm not a Michael Bennet fan, but he's worlds better than Darryl Glenn would have been; Glenn still did disturbingly well. Colorado remains purple.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, my Republican US Rep, Mike Coffman, won re-election. Dems picked up a handful of House seats, but not enough to make a serious difference there.<\/p>\n

On ballot proposition, I had a pretty good record:<\/p>\n

Prop 106, allowing physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill, passed. I think that's a good thing.<\/p>\n

Prop 107 (presidential primaries) and 108 (allowing open primaries in all races) both won. I wasn't passionate about them, but I favored them.<\/p>\n

Amendment 69, establishing a state single-payer system, failed badly. I voted against it, mostly for implementation details, but also because that thing really, truly, needs to happen at the national level for it to work.<\/p>\n

Amendment 70 passed, increasing the Colorado minimum wage.<\/p>\n

Amendment 71, which will make it more difficult (too difficult, IMO) to put propositions on the ballot, won. I had voted for it,<\/p>\n

Amendment 72, to increase tobacco taxes, failed. I voted against it, not because I support cigarettes or Big Tobacco, but because how it dealt with the money raised wasn't structured well.<\/p>\n

Amendment T, to remove some (possibly) obsolete language about involuntary servitude in the state constitution, was narrowly defeated. I voted against it.<\/p>\n

Amendment U, doing something dodgy with taxes on small government property usage, was voted down, which is what I wanted to see.<\/p>\n

Ballot Measure 4B, continuing the local arts and cultural district sales tax, won handily. That's really good news.<\/p>\n

So, for the most part, the ballot propositions went the way I wanted. A small comfort this morning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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From here in the Denver metro area, things turned out … less awful than nationally. We re-elected our Democratic Senator. The Dems still ended up with a minority in the Senate, but did pick up at least one seat there, leaving them just a scosh down from the center point. 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