Re: County initiative IS far easier than recall

[Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Evan:

I'm really confused.

Under what authority does County Atty Leslie Lacey assert that citizens have
the right of initiative?

Home rule *cities* have such a right.  Boulder is a home rule city.

I am unaware of any means for a statutory county (Boulder County is a
statutory county) to put a citizens' initiative on the ballot.

I left a message for County Atty Leslie Lacey to call me back.  I'll report
here what she said.

Ralph



On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:12:18 -0700 (MST), you wrote:

>
>Folks,
>
>I just talked to County Atty Leslie Lacey and she told me that an
>initiative petition needs only 5% of the registered voters in the
>County. She said that their were about 218,000 registered before the
>last big voter reg. drive, the new figures will be available soon.
>
>5% of 218,000 is less than 11,000, far less than the 10% of those
>who voted for county clerk last time, which is what's necessary to
>recall Linda Salas.
>
>Joe, it's both much easier and much more productive to pass an
>initiative for what we want than to punish Linda -and almost
>certainly get what we don't want, again.
>
>Having personally collected close to 15,000 signatures in 10 years,
>paid and unpaid, for all kinds of initiatives, I disagree with you
>that it would be easy to get 25,000 in a week.
>
>People were quite upset with Linda for a while after the election
>but by now know that there's plenty of blame to go around, and that
>she is just another tool of secret voting machine corps. in bed with
>self-serving politicians and bureaucrats.
>
>"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the
>merger of state and corporate power."  - Benito Mussolini
>
>Evan