NO to HB15-1057!

Download the fact sheet by clicking here.Dear Members & Allies, we've joined opposition to this bill and urge you to take action. Read the fact sheet or more information below. - Ricardo
Voters need the entire picture to decide on ballot questions, not one puzzle piece.
There is bill making its way through the legislature right now and we need your help to defeat it! House Bill 1057, “The Statewide Initiative Process” bill would require a short fiscal impact statement on all pages of statewide initiative petitions. We believe that requiring complex fiscal analyses reduced down to a couple of sentences or less doesn’t provide voters enough information to make a well-informed decision.
For instance, a ballot question asking voters to fund all-day kindergarten for every Colorado child would have an up-front cost but also a long-term payoff. Only the up-front cost would be required on the petition, not the long-term benefit. Is that the whole picture?
The Blue Book is the vehicle for ballot measure analyses which provides voters with more comprehensive information. A ballot measure can have many impacts, the fiscal impact to the state is only one of those.  The Blue Book presents pro’s and con’s that allows the voter to make a well-informed decision. 
We need the whole picture! That’s why we’re calling on Colorado legislators to oppose HB15-1057. Please contact the members of the House State Affairs Committee:
REPRESENTATIVE SU RYDEN, CHAIR
D-District 36 (Aurora)
Email: su.ryden.house@state.co.us
Phone: 303-866-2942
REPRESENTATIVE JOE SALAZAR, VICE CHAIR
D-District 31 (Thornton)
Email: joseph.salazar.house@state.co.us
Phone: 303-866-2918
REPRESENTATIVE  MIKE FOOTE
D-District 12 (Lafayette)
Email: mike.foote.house@state.co.us
Phone: 303-866-2920
REPRESENTATIVE SUSAN LONTINE
D-District 1 (Denver)
Email: susan.lontine.house@state.co.us
Phone: 303-866-2966
REPRESENTATIVE DIANNE PRIMAVERA
D-District 33 (Broomfield)
Email: dianne.primavera.house@state.co.us
Phone: 303-866-4667
REPRESENTATIVE MAX TYLER
D-District 23 (Lakewood)
Email: max.tyler.house@state.co.us
Phone: 303-866-2951
And your own representative or senator. If you don’t know who your senator or representative is, go to http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/CGA-ReDistrict/CBON/1251581559728
Dear Senator/Representative x,
I’m writing today in opposition to “The Statewide Initiative Process” bill, HB-1057. Requiring and reducing a fiscal impact analysis down to a brief summary does not give me, the voter, enough information to make a well-informed decision.
I want to know ALL the pro’s and con’s of an issue and the Blue Book offers that information.  Sometimes an issue requires an up-front investment, but has a long-term benefit. Under HB-1057, voters wouldn’t know about the long-term payoff, only the up-front cost.
Additionally, the bill is a waste of scarce state resources.  Fiscal analysts must spend considerable time assessing the fiscal impact of a measure, regardless if it makes it onto the ballot.  Only four of the 101 measures that were filed last year actually went to the ballot.
I’m asking you today to vote NO on HB-1057, because we need the whole picture!