{"id":801059,"date":"2019-11-05T21:03:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T04:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=374066"},"modified":"2019-11-05T21:03:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T04:03:48","slug":"proposition-cc-effort-to-end-tabor-refunds-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/proposition-cc-effort-to-end-tabor-refunds-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposition CC: Effort to end TABOR refunds fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/election-SDN-110519-11-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/election-SDN-110519-11-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/election-SDN-110519-11-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/election-SDN-110519-11-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Summit County residents vote on Tuesday, Nov. 5, at the Silverthorne Pavilion.<\/strong><br \/><em>Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>DENVER \u2014 Colorado voters have soundly rejected Proposition CC, dealing a blow to Democratic budget reform efforts and giving the state\u2019s fiscal conservatives a significant victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the definition of a team win,\u201d said Michael Fields, executive director of Colorado Rising Action, which led opposition to Proposition CC. \u201cWe were up against misleading ballot language and millions of dollars of out-of-state money pouring in against us, but thankfully our Taxpayer\u2019s Bill of Rights is preserved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As of nearly 9 p.m., there were 488,614 votes in favor of Proposition CC and 611,722 in opposition, an 11-percentage-point difference.<\/p>\n<p>Backers of CC hadn\u2019t conceded yet, but The Associated Press called the race.<\/p>\n<p>The measure would have let the state keep any tax revenues above the state spending cap \u2014 money that the Taxpayer\u2019s Bill of Rights currently guarantees as refunds to taxpayers. Democrats said it wasn\u2019t a tax increase; Republicans argued it effectively was.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/11\/05\/proposition-cc-tabor-colorado-election-2019\/\">denverpost.com\/2019\/11\/05\/proposition-cc-tabor-colorado-election-2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/proposition-cc-effort-to-end-tabor-refunds-fails\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summit County residents vote on Tuesday, Nov. 5, at the Silverthorne Pavilion.Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com DENVER \u2014 Colorado voters have soundly rejected Proposition CC, dealing a blow to Democratic budget reform efforts and giving the state\u2019s fiscal conservatives a significant victory. \u201cThis is the definition of a team win,\u201d said Michael Fields, executive director of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-801059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 11:04:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}