Re: Oct. 26 editorial.
The Denver Post’s editorial was an absolute affront to dozens of organizations and literally hundreds of volunteers working in their communities to pass Amendment 71. The statewide conversation hosted by Building a Better Colorado invested scores of citizens literally all over Colorado in our cause, a huge number of which are now working actively to convince voters of the importance of protecting our constitution on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood, HOA-by-HOA and ward-by-ward basis. The Post attacked the effort as phony. What an outrageous and uninformed insult.
The Post will be glad to know that I am a volunteer who has taken those fliers door-to-door in my neighborhood. And it should come as a great relief to The Post that I don’t work in the oil and gas industry, as if oil and gas workers are some form of second-class citizen.
This election has brought a new and alarming cynicism into our politics. The Denver Post bathed in that cynicism by mocking the honest hard work of good men and women who love this state and are worried about special interests hijacking our constitution. Voters should reject The Post’s cynicism and vote “yes” on Amendment 71.
David Thomson, Greenwood Village
Congratulations to The Post for recognizing the fatal flaws in Amendment 71 and its special-interest origins. Goodness knows our state constitution has been abused way too much, but Amendment 71 is clearly the wrong medicine. I’m a believer in representative democracy, where our elected representatives should carefully deliberate over the proper approach and then refer an amendment that protects our citizen interests as well as the Constitution.
John Flemming, Littleton
In your editorial, you wrote that passing Amendment 71 “would make it nearly impossible to
amend Colorado’s constitution.” The amendment would make it more difficult, but that is as it should be. A constitution is a foundation of guiding principles and not a document to be altered like a municipal ordinance.
You negated your own argument to vote against this amendment when you stated, “And we agree that Colorado’s constitution is a mess. It’s undeniable there are laws that tie the hands of our elected officials doing their best to represent us.”
Vote to approve Amendment 71.
Joe Power, Denver
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