Goofy Gordon's attack on Constitution fails

From the RSCC:

After being railroaded through the Senate on nearly party line vote, six House Democrats joined with Republicans to kill a high-priority bill that would have by-passed the Colorado and U.S. Constitutions to elect the President through an illegal interstate voting scheme. Senator Ken Gordon (D-Denver) and Representative Jack Pommer (D-Boulder) sponsored SB07-46, which would have abandoned Colorado’s leverage in Presidential Electoral College.

“The Gordon/Pommer Bill to undercut the Electoral College was even more extreme than Amendment 36 which was rejected by the people of Colorado by almost 2-to-1,” declared Rep. Kent Lambert (R-Colorado Springs), Chairman of the Republican Study Committee of Colorado (RSCC). “SB07-46 was an end-run around the Constitution and the vote of the people of Colorado only two years ago.”

SB07-46 would have required Colorado to pool its Electoral College votes with a coalition of other states and cast all their electoral votes for the popularly-elected candidate.

“The last time I remember an interstate compact to elect a president was by the Confederacy at the start of the Civil War,” Lambert said during the hearing. “The process for a peaceful transition of the president is critical to a unified nation. This bill would have risked legal challenges in every precinct in the country, if not riots in the streets that occur in other countries that elect their presidents by direct vote.”

The measure was killed in the House State Affairs Committee on 10-1 vote after vigorous debate. “I’m gratified that most of the Democrats on State Affairs saw fit to respect the will of the people of Colorado,” stated Representative Kevin Lundberg (R-Berthoud), an RSCC member who also sits on the State Affairs Committee.

Democrats gutting immigration compromise

From the Republican Study Committee of Colorado (RSCC):

DENVER, CO: General Assembly Democrats are forcing a last minute bill through the legislature that would weaken provisions of the employer identification law, HB06-1023, passed during last summer’s special legislative session. Members of the Republican Study Committee of Colorado (RSCC) are leading the charge against this change.

The measure, HB07-1314, sponsored by Representative Mike Cerbo (D-Denver) and Senator Peter Groff (D-Denver), extends rule deadlines for the Department of Revenue applicable to the identification of those who receive state benefits. The measure could also allow non-secure documents to be used as valid forms of identification.

The bill is expected to have a 3^rd reading vote in the Senate tomorrow, but even on its current fast-track the measure won’t reach Governor Bill Ritter’s desk until the end of the week, failing to properly extend the March 1^st deadline outlined in HB06-1023.

Read their full press release here.

Money quote:

“HB07-1314 is a backdoor attempt by the Democrats to reverse last session’s immigration identification laws through bureaucratic technicalities and procedural double speak,” said Lambert.