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As the fallout continues to settle from the 2009 elections, among the more overlooked results was a ballot issue in Boulder County, Colorado that would have extended an existing sales tax to fund the acquisition of additional “open space.”
Approval of this “open space” tax in Boulder, set to expire in 2019, seemed like a perfect storm – even in this bitter economic climate. After all, it wasn’t technically a tax increase – it was a future extension (a decade down the road) of an existing tax, and not a particularly large tax at that. On top of that, it was expressly devoted for the purpose of land conservation, something Boulder voters have supported at the polls for the past two decades.
In other words, this was precisely the sort of referendum that routinely wins by landslide margins in the suburbs of Denver, where “green” voters dominate and Republicans have been virtually extinct since the Reagan revolution.
And yet amazingly, the “open space” ballot issue was defeated by Boulder voters... [snip]
An editorial in the Denver Post a few days after the election managed to muster the appropriate shock.
“When Boulder voters reject a tax increase meant to create more open space, it's clear there has been a sea change in political moods,”
Indeed there has been a “sea change,” even if Obama and his allies refuse to acknowledge it...
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