Bad day for the Constitution in Colorado. 

The Electoral College is not officially dead — yet.  But it will be shortly.   HB 1299, which changes how Colorado awards its 9 electoral votes in the presidential election, passed out of the Senate State, Military and Veterans Affairs along a party line vote.  It’s on to the whole Senate where it probably will pass.  The insane legislation forces Colorado into a compact of states that throws its support behind the winner of the national popular vote regardless of the will of Colorado voters.  Coloradans can just watch as New York and California annoint the next president.

Mark Grueskin and Ted Trimpa, two lawyer/lobbyists intimately involved with the infamous Colorado Democracy Alliance, testified in favor of HB 1299.  Grueskin was the first to testify.  When Chairwoman Suzanne Williams asked if there were any questions for Grueskin, Senator Bob Bacon (D-Fort Collins) was almost giddy in agreement, proudly proclaiming he is persuaded to support it.  He didn’t have a question — just an opinion.  It was like a judge telling everyone the outcome of the trial after hearing only one witness.   Bacon couldn’t get enough of Grueskin, smiling and nodding in agreement with every word Grueskin uttered.

Three citizens (including me) and two professors testified against HB 1299.  University of Denver Law Professor Robert Hardaway made a compelling case for the law of unintended consequences.  He predicted that this compact will result a plethora of lawsuits that will make Florida look like a student council election.  But committee members had their minds made up already.

When I testified, Bacon lectured me about the nearly 700,000 Coloradans that voted no on Amendment 36 that I cited during my testimony.   Chairwoman Williams didn’t let me respond.  I nearly choked on the blood as I bit a hole through my tongue.

Senators Suzanne Williams, Betty Boyd and Bob Bacon voted to destroy the Electoral College.  Senator David Schultheis voted to save it.

The nightmare that is the 2009 legislative session can’t end soon enough.

Democrat Northern Colorado legislators Jim Riesberg, John Kefalas and Randy Fischer voted to trample on the  US Constitution that has protected the rights of smaller states for over 200 years, render Colorado politically impotent in the next presidential election and ignore the will of Colorado voters.  These legislators gave a thumbs up to Andy Kerr’s anti-Electoral College legislation HB 1299. 

Kerr is affiliated with a national organization National Popular Vote, which has a mission to destroy the Electoral College forcing smaller states to succumb to the will of larger states thus assuring a Democrat in the White House in perpetuity.  President National Popular Vote is Barry Fadem who co-authored a book with among others infamous Democrat lawyer Mark Grueskin.

Representatives Jerry Sonnenberg, BJ Nikkel, Don Marostica, and Glenn Vaad.  Two Democrats broke rank with their party and voted no — Representatives Jeanne Labuda and Sal Pace.

This legislation must be stopped in the Senate.