🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <E0Iw6r.EFr@drnews.dr.lucent.com>,
L. Frear <frear@drmail.dr.att.com> wrote:
>In article <328267a8.110825358@nntp.ix.netcom.com>,
>Dale Anderson <dalea@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>warrenb@fc.hp.com (Warren Brill) wrote:
>>>I don't want _my_ children's education dumbed down by teachers afraid to
>>>teach the truth because some bigoted other kid's parents wants to run the
>>>schools. Anyway, the voters have spoken. 'Nuff said.
>>                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>>"The Voters have spoken".  Hmmmm.  That's what I said after Amendment
>>2 was passed by those very same voters.
>>
>
>And Amendment 17 was as poorly written as Amendment 2
>and probably would have met with the same fate.  
>
>Does anyone have any idea how much money got spent 
>on Amendment 2 in the court system?  

Something in the neighborhood of $10 million to support
an unconstitutional amendment. If the voters of this
state understood the constitution better, half the
amendments proposed in our elections wouldn't make
it to the ballot. 17 wasn't the only one that
would have been unconstitutional if passed - 11 would
have had problems, and there was a clear constitutional
conflict between 15 and Referendum A.

Marianne Goodland
Denver