{"id":2443808,"date":"2019-05-06T11:40:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T17:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=305334"},"modified":"2019-05-06T11:40:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T17:40:27","slug":"legal-sports-betting-and-tabor-refund-question-are-coming-to-colorado-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/legal-sports-betting-and-tabor-refund-question-are-coming-to-colorado-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal sports betting and TABOR refund question are coming to Colorado ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"659\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/AP19121802268325-1024x659.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/AP19121802268325-1024x659.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/AP19121802268325-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/05\/AP19121802268325-768x494.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Customers watch a game during the NCAA March Madness college basketball tournament at the Hard Rock casino in Atlantic City N.J. on March 22, 2019.<\/strong><br \/><em>AP\/Wayne Parry<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Colorado lawmakers have finished their work for the year, but they\u2019ve also created some work for state residents: In the final week, the General Assembly voted to put measures on the November ballot that would legalize sports betting and permanently eliminate TABOR taxpayer refunds.<\/p>\n<p>They are two big questions, both of which would raise money for the state, and it\u2019s entirely possible that more measures will find their way onto the ballot before fall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the Colorado we live in,\u201d House Majority Leader Alec Garnett, D-Denver, told reporters. \u201cVoters are conditioned to be asked these tough questions. They get mail-in ballots and they spend their time. We have one of the most deliberative electorates in the country, and so we\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not on the ballot: Gov. Jared Polis\u2019&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/05\/02\/tobacco-vaping-tax-polis-colorado-legislature\/\">proposed vaping tax<\/a>&nbsp;and a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/05\/02\/transportation-ballot-measure\/\">transportation bond measure<\/a>&nbsp;the legislature passed in 2018 that\u2019s now postponed until 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the two issues that will&nbsp;be on the ballot at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/05\/06\/colorado-sports-betting-tabor-2019-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"denverpost.com (opens in a new tab)\">denverpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/legal-sports-betting-and-tabor-refund-question-are-coming-to-colorado-ballots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Customers watch a game during the NCAA March Madness college basketball tournament at the Hard Rock casino in Atlantic City N.J. on March 22, 2019.AP\/Wayne Parry Colorado lawmakers have finished their work for the year, but they\u2019ve also created some work for state residents: In the final week, the General Assembly voted to put measures [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2443808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 23:01:33","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}