TUGs CO Ballot explainer

And, and the ballot this year in Colorado is-- it's thick.

I think it's three pages.

Um, some people have more because they have local initiatives on them as well.

I mean, it's a, it's a mess.

Um, but that is a good thing for Colorado, and the reason there's so many, uh, citizen-pushed initiatives is because, uh, for those of you who may not be aware, I'm not sure if anybody not from Colorado is gonna listen to this, I can't imagine why you'd want to, but our state legislature is run predominantly by the left.

And so what happens is th- the, the politicians on the right are putting forth these, these initiatives and i- they're either killed in committee and never make it to the floor, or they get, get to the floor and then they get set aside and they never get touched.

So citizens have used the process to take that, that legislation that was set aside or killed in committee, bring it to the ballot, and let the citizens vote on these things.

We've seen this at the national level where 82% of the s- of the country, both the right and the left, want a particular thing done, and yet the politicians are saying, "Yeah, but you don't know what you want.

That's not good enough for you." A- and, and so they go through these measures.

We've seen this bite, bite us in the rear ends before, though.

In Colorado, a couple years back, we voted on legislation rever- uh, where, uh, fracking and things were related and, and it passed with citizen approval.

Our own legislature then said, "You guys are stupid.

You don't know what you want," and then they reversed it.

Um, and, and unfortunately they have that ability to do it.

We're hearing from so many on the right that they are disenfranchised.

They don't like the way things are going, and so they intend to sit this out.

The thing about that is, is the people who are saying, "Oh, I'm, I don't like what's on the ballot, so I'm not gonna vote," but you're going to complain about how Colorado has been run for the last decade.

If you sit out and vote, I promise you it'll continue to be run that way for at least another couple of years.

It doesn't make sense.

So it takes just a few minutes.

Either sit down at the kitchen table and fill your ballot out or take the f- the, the f- the time, go to your polling place, fill out the ballot, and vote.

If conservative-minded people in the state of Colorado work to get to the ballot, to the, to the polling places, get a ballot submitted, we can start to affect some changes.

It's not going to happen overnight, but it has to be continually happening.

We've all got to buck up.

Sometimes we're gonna have to plug our noses and vote for something we don't like, because voting against it could be worse.

And, and the ballot this year in Colorado is-- it's thick.

I think it's three pages.

Um, some people have more because they have local initiatives on them as well.

I mean, it's a, it's a mess.

Um, but that is a good thing for Colorado, and the reason there's so many, uh, citizen-pushed initiatives is because, uh, for those of you who may not be aware, I'm not sure if anybody not from Colorado is gonna listen to this, I can't imagine why you'd want to, but our state legislature is run predominantly by the left.

And so what happens is th- the, the politicians on the right are putting forth these, these initiatives and i- they're either killed in committee and never make it to the floor, or they get, get to the floor and then they get set aside and they never get touched.

So citizens have used the process to take that, that legislation that was set aside or killed in committee, bring it to the ballot, and let the citizens vote on these things.

We've seen this at the national level where 82% of the s- of the country, both the right and the left, want a particular thing done, and yet the politicians are saying, "Yeah, but you don't know what you want.

That's not good enough for you." A- and, and so they go through these measures.

We've seen this bite, bite us in the rear ends before, though.

In Colorado, a couple years back, we voted on legislation rever- uh, where, uh, fracking and things were related and, and it passed with citizen approval.

Our own legislature then said, "You guys are stupid.

You don't know what you want," and then they reversed it.

Um, and, and unfortunately they have that ability to do it.

We're hearing from so many on the right that they are disenfranchised.

They don't like the way things are going, and so they intend to sit this out.

The thing about that is, is the people who are saying, "Oh, I'm, I don't like what's on the ballot, so I'm not gonna vote," but you're going to complain about how Colorado has been run for the last decade.

If you sit out and vote, I promise you it'll continue to be run that way for at least another couple of years.

It doesn't make sense.

So it takes just a few minutes.

Either sit down at the kitchen table and fill your ballot out or take the f- the, the f- the time, go to your polling place, fill out the ballot, and vote.

If conservative-minded people in the state of Colorado work to get to the ballot, to the, to the polling places, get a ballot submitted, we can start to affect some changes.

It's not going to happen overnight, but it has to be continually happening.

We've all got to buck up.

Sometimes we're gonna have to plug our noses and vote for something we don't like, because voting against it could be worse.