I don’t do this very often, but I do try to do it whenever it happens.
I was wrong!
I recommended in my voters guide that Ref L be passed. It would have lowered the minimum age at which someone could be elected to the legislature from 25 to 21.
If you want an example of how immature people are at that age, you need not look farther than our own University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
The duly elected President of the UCCS student body, David Williams, has been sanctioned for choosing not to approve an expenditure for a gay event. He didn’t veto it. The gays got their money. They want him to endorse what they are doing, not just allow the money to pass to them without endorsement.
He wouldn’t sign so they hauled him before the student Judicial Board.
This blog is not a gay bashing blog. We seldom write about the issue in any context. The poor judgment of those who decided to bring charges against David Williams is beyond belief. Given that these students are the same age as those I was willing to allow to legislate for real, they make me look really stupid. I don’t like to look stupid.
UCCS is going to suffer for this. Higher education in Colorado needs more funding. I voted for Ref C in an effort to make that happen. Our dishonest Democrat majority legislature took the money away, but that isn’t my fault.
This kind of misconduct, this trampling of David Williams’ basic rights makes it very hard for me to justify, to myself and others, any additional spending for higher education.
Allow me to say it again. It takes maturity to be a legislator. I was wrong to support this harebrained scheme to lower minimum age for legislators from 25 to 21.
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