Backers of Amendment 47, the right-to-work measure, are not giving up hope despite a six-page ad taken out against the proposal in today's Rocky Mountain News and two similar full-page ads in The Denver Post.
COLORADO'S FRONTPAGE
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Content Index: Amendment 47
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November 3, 2008"Out-of-state Big Labor-funded front organization Protect Colorado’s Future Culture of Corruption has really gone overboard with its latest mailing. Check out the scans of their “Godzilla vs. A Fire Station” ad over at Peoples Press Collective if you haven’t already received a copy of this thing yourself.
Union chief clears $430k in 2007 for self, two children
A Face the State Staff Report
October 31, 2008
Ernest Duran, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, paid himself and two of his children combined salaries of over $430,000 in 2007.
FTS Humor: Time to change the channel
Face The State Humor
October 30, 2008By Andrew Ripemoff
It’s been an incredibly exciting campaign season, and today, we look back at all the hot button people and issues making news this election cycle. I’m talking about things like "Joe the Plumber," "Jeremiah Wright," and the $700 billion Wall Street bailout which, coincidentally, is the same amount Mark Udall has spent trying to tear down Bob Schaffer.
"The Buzz" on Newstalk 1310 KFKA, 10/27 - Colorado Concern and Amd. 54
October 27, 2008
Face The State managing editor Brad Jones visits with Newstalk 1310 KFKA's Amy Oliver. An internal fundraising memo obtained by Face The State indicates Colorado Concern, the statewide "pro-business" group, has redoubled its efforts toward defeating Amendment 54. What does this last-minute appeal for cash say about the Nov. 4 election?
"In June the Greeley Tribune wrote in a house editorial 'we’re supporting Amendment 47, the so-called Right-To-Work measure.'...Fast forward to October 23, 2008. The Tribune does a complete 180 on Amendment 47. In a house editorial, the Greeley daily paper claims that Colorado’s unique Labor-Peace Act is not broken 'so it doesn’t need to be fixed, and that’s why you should vote no on Amendment 47.'"
Initiative campaigns' final pitch for your vote
A Face the State Staff Report
October 21, 2008Mail-in ballots have been trickling back to County Clerks' offices, and early voting began Monday with record turnout. Face the State gave each of 10 remaining ballot initiatives the opportunity to write a short column explaining why voters should support or oppose each measure.
Election battle could set stage for more aggressive labor lobby in 2009
A Face the State Staff Report
October 15, 2008Colorado’s Labor Peace Act has created a kind of harmony between organized labor and business owners for the past 65 years, but recent political maneuvers by business leaders and union activists threaten to dismantle the old law.
"So, someone showed me yet another anti-Amendment 46/47/49/54 flier that came to them in the mail this week, and I looked at it, and I noticed something strange. Look close and see if you can spot what it is.
No, I don’t mean the implicit violence in depicting a boy and a woman symbolically torn in half. I mean the Spanish. Where is the rest of the Spanish?"
Jake Jabs: Unions want it all in Colorado
October 8, 2008
Who doesn't like Jake Jabs? He's been bringing trademark low, low prices to cost-conscious Coloradans (not to mention college students and transplanted Californians-turned-Coloradans) since the 1970's through his growing network of American Furniture Warehouse retail outlets.
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