COLORADO SPRINGS — Gov. Bill Ritter said Colorado will work during the next legislative session to determine what one important issue should go on the ballot in 2008. Ritter, speaking to the 100th annual meeting of Colorado Counties Inc., said: “We have to ask this question the thing that I have said, and I say to you today, is that if anything does go on the ballot, I say it should be just one thing.”
Ritter told a room full of the state’s county commissioners that Colorado voters should not have to choose between competing ballot issues to fund transportation construction and maintenance, higher education or health care. “Those are the issues that we face and we all face together,” Ritter said. Ritter said the state is working on ways to provide better care for people with mental illnesses and to reduce the recidivism rate in the state’s prisons. Currently, 50 percent of inmates who leave a Colorado prison will return within three years.
