Not all that remarkable when you get right down to it. As the duly elected executive of the State of Colorado he has an obligation to support the constitution of this state, and took an oath before he entered the office that he would do precisely that.
You may remember, way back in the last century (1995 IIRC), when Governor Roy Romer took Amendment 2 all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States of America despite his personal objections to that amendment to the state constitution. The governor has a duty to the citizens of this state to vigorously defend their laws, regardless of his personal feelings regarding those laws.
If only our national executive were of the same character..........
Roads and bridges don't stop needing repair in a bad economy. In a bad economy people who are not employed, under-employed, or worried about not being employed, drive less...When they drive less, they buy less gas. When they buy less gas, there is less collected in state fuel taxes. When there is less being collected in fuel taxes, the bridges and roads don't stop needing repair. So, how to get the money necessary to do it? Plate fees, registration fees, title fees, license fees go up... I don't like paying more for plates any more than anyone else...But at least I don't stick my head in the sand about why it was necessary...
You can tighten up TABOR all you want... It doesn't change the fact that if you don't maintain things, they fall apart. Yes, raising the cost of things and calling it "fees" instead of "taxes" is infuriating. But since the no-tax/no-way/no-how/no-reason wackos refuse to pass things in their own interests, it's easy to see why it was done that way.
You know where all the money for the roads and bridges went, right LJ? The state budget is a pretty clear indicator of where the money that should be spent maintaining and building infrastructure has gone.
