Denver, CO – As of 9:05 am, the contentious statewide tax increase, Proposition CC, is losing by more than ten points. The results are still technically unofficial. But with the majority of votes counted, we can confidently say the proposition lost.
Only 11 of 64 counties voted for Proposition CC. Notably, Denver, Boulder, Pitkin, and San Miguel counties voted in favor of the proposition by over 66 percent. The proposition only passed by a narrow margin in San Juan and La Plata counties in southwestern Colorado.
Statewide, 1,360,441 votes were cast for or against the tax increase. Of that, 749,905 voters (55.12 percent) rejected the proposition.
Historically, tax increases do not do well in Colorado. Since the adoption of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, Coloradans only approved two tax increases – for marijuana and cigarettes.
Knowing this, we expected Proposition CC to fail.
Democrats attempted to spike the football with the proposition after a record spending spree in 2019. They failed, and that failure shows Colorado is not as blindly blue as Democrats think.
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The comment about Colorado not being blindly blue is so true, the only blindly blue are the lunitic liberals. And just like the vote count shows It’s Denve Boulder trying to dictate policy to the remainder of the State.
The rule part of Colorado hold the key to the success of this state. If it be food, from fruits and vegetables or live stock, beef pultery or hogs for bacon. Most of the wind power turbine are out here and the rural areas have m9st of the solar system. Oil and gas. Well also we are diversified with Demacrats Republicans and Independent
Denver Boulder may be trying to escape the old COW TOWN IMAGE. You bastards in the suburbs better get used to it we still have the biggest best Sock Show in this country. And I’m here to tell u as a generational Coloradn I’m DAM PRUOD OF THAT. WE WILL NOT GO QUIETLY INTO THE NIGHT U BASTARDS.