Posted by votenoamendment50 on October 27, 2008
We got a late start with this effort to get the facts out about Amendment 50, and there were a few newspapers in the state that endorsed the Nevada Casino Profit Maximization effort without talking to our side, or really spending any time studying the issue. With so many ballot issues this year, it’s understandable.
Not excusable, but understandable.
What’s interesting is actually reading the vote-yes endorsements. We wrote about this with once before, those urging a yes vote really did it while holding their noses.
Many other newspapers, however, did look at the issue, and urge a no vote.
There are probably a bunch more that we don’t know about, if you know of one and want to be on the list, let us know.
The blog endorsements that we have seen fall into three groups.
First is those who have studied the issue and come to it from some ideological perspective. They all urge a no vote. Liberals are against it. Conservatives are against it.
The second group has bloggers who were initially in favor of it, but then studied it and changed their minds.
The third group is those who favor it — I won’t link to them — but nearly every one is from a poker player who wants to be able to play poker against suckers in Colorado and make more money at it. Really just about everyone who publicly supports Amendment 50 is in it for the money.
Not with my constitution, thank you very much.
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Posted by votenoamendment50 on October 21, 2008
We are seeing an amazing amount of web traffic and hearing more and more stories from people who are against Amendment 50.
Some big names have come out against it, including the state’s top cop, Attorney General John Suthers and the state’s most popular Democrat, Mayor John Hicknlooper.
There haven’t been any new endorsements or new movement in the direction on the “Say Yes on 50″ side, except for another infusion of money from another massive casino corporation.
We’ve gotten lots of comments from people who said that they are voting no just because of the deceptive advertising that is saturating the airwaves. The casinos really seem to think that nobody will actually read the text of Colorado Amendment 50 in this busy ballot year. It is a packed ballot, but Colorado voters are smart enough to sniff out a con job from big spending casino corporations.
But it’s the stories we are hearing from individuals that are making us glad we started this blog.
Some are stories about the generally pernicious nature of gambling, and how it hurts real people:
“I have a relative who used to tell us how each time they went gambling they always won. It was amazing. Right up to the time they had to file for bankruptcy.”
Some others understand that Amendment 50 is a bad idea to put into the Colorado constitution. “We let the camels nose in the tent when casino gambling first came to Colorado. Now we are on the edge of getting the whole thing. The only real beneficiaries will be the casino owners.”
Share your stories with us, but most importantly, tell a friend, write a letter to the editor, call in to talk radio. Let people know what you think. It’s hard to be heard amid the roar of $7 million (and growing) that the casinos are spending, but the truth always rings out loud and clear.
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Posted by votenoamendment50 on September 18, 2008
One of the heartening things about taking on Big Gambling’s $6 million with only a blog, a sense of humor and the truth, is that others are finding their way to realizing how bad Amendment 50 is all on their own.
From all over Colorado, people are blogging that they will be voting no for a variety of reasons. “BoulderDude” who has clearly been around long enough to remember what the original promise was of limited stakes gambling:
The amendment that was passed to allow gambling was sold as a way for mom and pop businesses in Central City, Black Hawk and Cripple Creek to keep going and not become modern ghost towns….and all that happened was what opponents said was going to happen and that is that those cities are nothing but wall to wall mini Vegas’. Voting No.
Nicely put.
Not sure, but we are figuring BoulderDude is liberal. “A Watcher” looks to be more conservative, but he agrees that Amendment 50 is a bad idea for different, but also valid reasons.
[Amendment 50] assigns any additional taxes that result from this measure to fund something that voters would not eventually have to fund anyway. We consider that feature a fatal flaw. If the casinos want to bring this forward again without a restriction on where the funds are to go, then it would deserve consideration. In this form, it does not. No.
If you’ve got another good blog post we should know about, just drop us a line.
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