Amendment 81 — Mandatory Reporting to ICE

VOTE NO

 

Backed by dark-money groups, Amendment 81 would require certain local law enforcement, corrections, and district attorney personnel to report suspected undocumented immigrants to federal immigration authorities. The requirement can apply based on local charges, before a conviction. 

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Supporters want to undo Colorado laws that keep local police focused on local public safety and force the state to proactively cooperate with ICE. 

 

This would undo decades of good public-safety policy and turn local police into ICE agents. It would create more opportunities for racial profiling and deepen distrust between immigrant communities and law enforcement. Local police should be focused on keeping communities safe, not doing ICE’s job.

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Amendment 82 — “Right to Natural Gas”

VOTE NO

 

Amendment 82 would put a constitutional right to buy and sell natural gas into Colorado’s constitution. It is backed by dark-money groups and promoted as a way to protect "consumer choice." 

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Supporters want to make it harder for state and local governments to regulate natural gas in the future. The measure comes as Colorado has adopted new consumer, building, and environmental rules involving natural gas, including warning-label requirements for gas stoves. 

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This is misleading. Their real agenda is to give the greedy gas industry special constitutional protections and make it harder to pass or enforce rules that protect consumers. 

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Amendment 83 — “Right to Hunt and Fish”

VOTE NO

 

Supported by dark-money interests, Amendment 83 would create a constitutional right to hunt and fish and make hunting and fishing the preferred means of managing wildlife populations.

 

Hunting and fishing are already legal in Colorado. ​The real agenda is undoing good policy.

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Colorado relies on professionals and scientists to make wildlife management decisions. Future wildlife policy should be based on science and the needs of each species, not a constitutional preference written by political groups. 

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Amendment 84 — Mail Ballot Voter Identification

VOTE NO

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Supported by dark-money groups, Amendment 84 would add new identification requirements to Colorado’s vote-by-mail system. Voters would have to provide specified identifying information on their ballot envelope, and ballots with missing or incorrect information could require additional steps before being counted. ​

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This adds another barrier for eligible voters without fixing a demonstrated problem. Colorado already verifies mail ballots. More requirements mean more opportunities for legitimate ballots to be delayed or rejected over mistakes. This is a voter-suppression attempt that makes voting by mail harder with new ID requirements.

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Amendment 85 — Plain Language Ballot Titles

VOTE NO

 

Supported by dark-money groups, Amendment 85 would impose a new readability standard on ballot titles and limit rules requiring ballot titles to explain certain fiscal impacts to voters. 

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Supporters are selling this as a simple effort to make ballot language easier to understand.

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Plain language is not the problem. Voters deserve both clear language and honest information about what a measure could cost. This is misleading because it risks stripping fiscal-impact information from future ballot measures.

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Amendment 86 — Congressional Redistricting

VOTE NO

 

Backed by dark-money groups, Amendment 86 would add new constitutional restrictions on changing congressional district maps between regular redistricting cycles. Colorado already uses an independent congressional redistricting commission and Supreme Court review. 

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Supporters like House Speaker Mike Johnson want to restrict what Colorado voters and the state could do if extraordinary circumstances ever required a change before the next census. 

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This is wrong for Colorado.

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Proposition 132 — Fentanyl Penalties

VOTE NO

 

Backed by dark-money groups, Proposition 132 would increase criminal penalties for fentanyl, including making possession of any amount a felony and imposing tougher mandatory sentences for distribution. ​

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Fentanyl is deadly, but Colorado cannot incarcerate its way out of addiction. This proposal would spend more money on prisons and mandatory sentences instead of focusing resources on treatment, prevention, and targeted enforcement against major traffickers.

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Opponents include medical providers, criminal-justice organizations, advocates, elected officials, district attorneys, and law-enforcement voices. 

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Proposition 133 — Penalties for Human Trafficking of a Minor

VOTE NO

 

Proposition 133 is part of a three-measure package promoted by a dark-money group by the misleading name of Protect Kids Colorado. It would impose life-without-parole penalties for certain human-trafficking crimes involving minors. Protect Kids Colorado markets the measure as the “Children Are Not For Sale Act.” 

 

Supporters are using one of the most horrific crimes imaginable to argue for mandatory life sentences with no possibility of parole.

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Human trafficking is already a serious felony with severe penalties. A judge should to consider the facts and circumstances of every case before determining the punishment. We oppose using a real tragedy to push another extreme mandatory-incarceration policy. 

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Proposition 134 — School Sports Participation

VOTE NO

 

Proposition 134 is another misleading Protect Kids Colorado measure. It would impose statewide rules restricting participation in male and female K–12 and college sports based on biological reproductive characteristics. Protect Kids Colorado calls it the “Protect Girls’ Sports Act.” 

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This turns a small number of deeply personal family situations into a statewide political fight. Schools should not be forced to police children’s bodies or subject students to invasive scrutiny. All students belong on the team.

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Proposition 135 — Surgeries for Minors

VOTE NO

 

Proposition 135 is the third misleading Protect Kids Colorado measure. It would prohibit certain surgeries for people under 18 when performed to alter biological sex characteristics and would restrict public funding and insurance coverage for those procedures. 

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Medical decisions should remain between families, patients, and medical providers. Politicians should not be making individual medical decisions for families. 

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Proposition 136 — Income Tax Rate Cap

VOTE NO

 

Backed by dark-money groups, Proposition 136 would set 4.4 percent as the maximum state income-tax rate for both individuals and corporations. This was introduced to counter Amendment 87 or the Graduated Income Tax measure.​

 

This measure protects the current system and makes it harder to ask wealthy households and corporations to contribute more in the future. It also directly conflicts with the graduated-income-tax proposal on the same ballot.

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Amendment 87 — Graduated Income Tax

VOTE YES

 

Amendment 87 would replace Colorado’s flat income-tax structure with graduated rates. Lower- and middle-income taxpayers would pay lower rates, while higher-income taxpayers would pay higher rates. Revenue would support education, health care, and early childhood programs. 

 

Working families should not pay the same income-tax rate as millionaires. A graduated system asks more from those who can most afford it while reducing taxes for most Coloradans and investing in services families rely on.

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Proposition NN — Education Funding

VOTE YES

 

Proposition NN would allow Colorado to retain state revenue already collected and direct funds toward education and other specified purposes instead of returning all of it through TABOR refunds. 

 

Colorado schools need teachers, smaller classes, career programs, and stronger support for students. We support investing existing state revenue in children and public education.

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Proposition 137 — Conservation and Wildfire Funding

VOTE YES

 

Proposition 137 would dedicate a portion of existing sales-tax revenue from sporting-goods purchases to conservation, wildfire mitigation, watershed protection, and outdoor recreation. It does not create a new sales-tax rate. 

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In Western Colorado, wildfire, water, forests, and healthy public lands directly affect our homes, economy, and quality of life. We support dedicating resources to protecting the land and water our communities depend on. This could also add resources to increase outdoor access for Latinos and other communities.