Voter Recommendations for Boulder County and Beyond

Ted Kline, Rona Wilensky, Jaye Zola, John Zola
November 6, 2018

MAKE SURE TO VOTE THE ENTIRE BALLOT!
IN THE CITY OF BOULDER THERE ARE TWO SHEETS TO THE BALLOT! WHAT ABOUT YOURS?
MAKE SURE YOU PUT TWO (2) STAMPS IF YOU ARE MAILING YOUR BALLOT.
MAKE SURE YOU TO SIGN YOUR BALLOT ON THE BACK OF THE ENVELOPE.

Races

  •  Second Congressional District: Joe Neguse

  • Governor/Lt. Governor: Jared Polis

  • Secretary of State: Jena Griswold

  • State Treasurer: Dave Young

  • Attorney General: Phil Weiser

  • State Board of Education, District 2:  Angelika Schroeder, District 4: Tim Krug

  • Regent for CU At Large: Lesley Smith,

  • State Representative District 10: Edie Hooton (See below for other legislative districts in Boulder County)

  • District Attorney 20thJudicial District: Michael Dougherty

  • RTD Director District O: Lynn Guissinger

  • County Commissioner, District 3: Matt Jones

  • County Clerk and Recorder: Molly Fitzpatrick

  • County Treasurer: Paul Weissmann

  • County Assessor: Cynthia Braddock

  • County Sheriff: Joe Pelle

  • County Surveyor: Lee Stadele

  • County Coroner: Emma Hall

  • Judicial Retention Questions: YES on all 

State Ballot Measures

  •  Amendment V: YES (Reduces age from 25 to 21 to serve in Colorado General Assembly)

  • Amendment W: YES (Makes ballot more concise and reader friendly for Judicial retention)

  • Amendment X: YES (Changes definition of hemp in case Feds make it legal.)

  • Amendment Y: NO (In Colorado at the moment, this is not a great problem and there are better solutions than what is proposed. We want fair redistricting, but worry that this is not the right solution. Let’s keep working on this one.)

  • Amendment Z: NO (In Colorado at the moment, this is not a great problem and there are better solutions than what is proposed. We want fair redistricting, but worry that this is not the right solution.  Let’s keep working on this one, too!)

  • Amendment A: YES (Prohibits slavery in Colorado.)

  • Amendment 73: YES (Funds public schools which we support. It is worth noting that dealing with funding for public education through Constitutional amendments is the wrong approach and this adds one more amendment to an already convoluted and crazy system.)

  • Amendment 74: NO (A ploy by the oil and gas industry to make it impossible to regulate oil and gas development for health, safety, zoning and quality life!)

  • Amendment 75: NO (Would allow increased campaign spending when one candidate self funds over $1 million. This is a “band-aid for a gusher!” We need to get money out of campaigns, not bring more in.) 

  • Proposition 109: NO, NO, NO! (Takes money from human services and education to pay for needed transportation without providing any additional revenue stream. This is the worst…trust us!)

  • Proposition 110: YES (Provides a sales tax increase to fund needed transportation infrastructure. We acknowledge that sales taxes are regressive and it would be better to fund transportation improvements through user fees and carbon taxes.)

  • Proposition 111: YES (a consumer protection measure to reduce the maximum cost for payday loans.)

  • Proposition 112: YES (Creates setbacks for oil and gas fracking operations to protect neighborhoods and human beings.) 

Local Measures

  •  County Ballot Issue 1A: YES (Funds critical jail updates and mental health services.)

  • City of Boulder Ballot Issue 2C: YES (A tax on oil and gas pollution.)

  • City of Boulder Ballot Issue 2D: YES (Directs soda tax dollars to City health programs)

  • City of Boulder Ballot Issue 2E: NO (We don’t want to make recalls easier. We have elections for that purpose.)

  • City of Boulder Ballot Issue 2F: YES (Requires County Clerk to verify, as possible, petition signatures.)

  • City of Boulder Ballot Issue 2G: NO (We don’t want to turn petitioning over to the “web”. Street level petitioning creates face to face democratic interactions.)

  • City of Boulder Ballot Issue 2H: NO (We fail to see the urgency of this measure.)

  • City of Boulder Ballot Issue 2I: NO (Rushes things for no good reason.)

  • Urban Drainage District and Flood Control Issue 7G: YES (Tax and spend liberals who like hiking and biking support this!) 

OTHER DISTRICTS

  •  State House District 11: Jonathan Singer

  • State House District 12: Sonya Jaquez Lewis

  • State House District 13: K.C. Becker

  • State House District 33: Matt Gray