Reform Road Show Hits the Springs

Earlier today, Speaker Romanoff (Cute. Jewish. So nice!) talked to a room full of 160 adults (plus two little boys) in The Springs about the Colorado State Constitution.

You heard me. 160 grown people and two kids gathered in a public library, in the middle of a workday, to talk about how laws are written. And no one mentioned Paris Hilton. Not even once. So color me impressed.

Sort of.

Our state constitution is huge compared to the US Constitution. Should we give more incentive to citizens to go the statutory route? Obviously, our state constitution should not be all things to all people. Or even all animals. I heard such an argument several years back in Florida about pregnant pigs. However, we must craft a solution that works.

Jenny Bowser from National Conference of State Legislatures (They're holding a conference in Boston. In August. Anyone wanna fly me out there and I'll be your own personal tour guide?) pointed out that Colorado requires fewer signatures per capita for constitutional initiatives and has no geographical district requirement. So if some hippie chick wants to protect the gays, she could collect necessary signatures in Boulder to get it on the ballot for the entire state.

Hmmm, makes me wanna party in Boulder.

Only two states see more constitutional initiatives than Colorado. Oregon and California.

Hmmm, makes me wanna party in California.

After presentations, the crowd broke off into small groups. I smiled at a few people from Drinking Liberally and was fairly surprised at the chilly reception back. Did I offend? Not a fan of the love toys? Seems they were friendlier last week with a beer in their hands.

Unfortunately, I could not join a small group and hear locals' ideas for statutory vs. constitutional initiatives.

Cause those two little boys in attendance had to pee-pee. And a mommy's gotta do what a mommy's gotta do.