So today I dropped by the El Paso County website and saw something I hadn't heard about.

This may be old news for many of you as this lawsuit was filed in May 2012, but it was news to me. I searched the forums and found nothing previously posted on this (unless it occurred in the data loss area of the Great CO-AR15 Crash of 2012). It's quite possible that this case has already run it's course, but given the speed (or lack thereof) of our Judicial system, I'm inclined to believe this is still an active case.

It seems many of our states elected officials are so peeved about the citizens of this great state deciding for themselves to put shackles on the money grubbing/tax collecting vermin that they've brought a lawsuit claiming TABOR is unconstitutional.

The gist of the lawsuit is that Costitutionally are to be ruled (we word, not theirs) by a "Representative Democracy" which is Cnstitutionally allowed to tax the citizens at THEIR discretion, not the citizens. Their claim is that "Direct Democracy" (where the citizens get to vote directly and not via an elected representative) is unconstitutional and since this is how TABOR became law, it is unconstitutional.

Maybe they missed the beginning of the Constitution where it says "We the People". They must have also misunderstood President Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address when he stated "...to ensure the survival of America's representative democracy, that the "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Here's the El Paso County website link to the document filed with the courts:
http://www.elpasoco.com/Documents/Ta...%205-23-11.pdf

Someone OD me on Thorazine as the lunatics are surely in control of the asylum.