Amendment 49

The Rocky Mountain News - one of many major Colorado newspapers to endorse Amendment 49, the Ethical Standards initiative - put out a hard-hitting editorial today knocking down the grossly deceptive arguments against the good-government measure. The deceptive arguments are bankrolled by millions of dollars from lobbying groups.
A couple key excerpts:

The foes of 49 [...]

The Colorado Springs Gazette yesterday reaffirmed its support for Amendment 49, the Ethical Standards initiative:
YES on Amendment 49 (stops government employers from collecting union dues with payroll deduction).

Other newspapers that have endorsed Amendment 49 include:

Wall Street Journal
Denver Post
Rocky Mountain News
Boulder Daily Camera
Pueblo Chieftain
Grand Junction Sentinel
Longmont Times-Call
Loveland Reporter-Herald
Salida Mountain Mail
Jefferson County Mile High Newspapers

Sandra Hagen Solin, writing as the issues manager for the Northern Colorado Legislative Alliance (NCLA), explains in today’s Fort Collins Coloradoan why her organization backs Amendment 49, the Ethical Standards initiative:

Amendment 49 prevents state and local governments from bundling money from public employees’ paychecks and delivering the funds to special interests, like unions. The NCLA [...]

Like you, the editors of the Denver Post are sick of the incessant political advertising, especially the deceptive commercials run by opponents of Amendment 49:

Nor can we watch Amendment 49 attacked as the scheme of “multinational corporations” working to “silence small business and working Coloradans.” Not true. The homegrown 49 would not hurt a union’s [...]

In a 30-second radio spot playing across Colorado, former U.S. Senator Hank Brown touts the numerous newspaper endorsements of Amendment 49, the Ethical Standards initiative:

Earlier this week in an interview on 850 KOA’s Mike Rosen Show, Senator Brown expounded on the endorsements and what the initiative does. Here is a brief but important clip:

In the Brush News-Tribune, state representative Cory Gardner explains his support for Amendment 49, the Ethical Standards initiative:
Amendment 49: Prohibits government from deducting union dues from state employee’s paychecks. This is also known as Paycheck Protection. I will vote YES. Government shouldn’t be the bank for any special interest.

Of course, Amendment 49 applies to state [...]

From former Governor Bill Owens’ opinion piece published in today’s Rocky Mountain News:

Our state and local governments should be focused on the jobs we pay them to do, whether it’s keeping our neighborhoods safe, educating our children or fixing our roads. We shouldn’t expect our governments to provide banking services for unions or any other [...]

Following the lead of eight major Colorado newspapers, some of the state’s smaller newspapers now are voicing their support of Amendment 49, the Ethical Standards initiative. This morning it’s the Mountain Mail in Salida:

Amendment 49 would prohibit automatic payroll deductions for such things as politically active groups including labor and professional associations. These entities often [...]

Former U.S. Senator Hank Brown, who previously endorsed Amendment 49, explained his support in greater detail in a Sunday op-ed for the Denver Post:

Should taxpayers be forced to subsidize the collection of political contributions and payments to lobbyists?
All of us would defend a citizen’s right to lobby government or donate to a campaign. But forcing [...]

Jefferson County teacher Michael Alcorn and Independence Institute policy analyst Ben DeGrow joined host Jon Caldara on the latest episode of Independent Thinking, to explain how Amendment 49 (the Ethical Standards initiative) works - and how it doesn’t do what so many of the opposition’s scare tactics suggest it will do.
The entire episode is available [...]