2018 Colorado Ballot Issue Polling

According to Ballotpedia based on a poll from October 12-17, 2018 with 800 surveyed (MOE 3.5%).

Issue 73 (add progressive income tax brackets for education): 58-42  

 

Issue 74 (inverse condemnation suits for state laws and regulations): 63-37  

Issue 75 (relax campaign limits in face of self-funding): 39-61 

Amendment Y (redistricting commission for Congress): 78-22 

Issue 111 (limit payday loans to 36% per annum interest rates): 84-16 

Issue 112 (increase oil and gas setbacks): 52-48

Most of the results are unsurprising. But, strong support for Issue 74 which is really bad is concerning. And who is behind Issue 74?

Two committees were registered in support of the measure: The Committee for Colorado's Shared Heritage and the State Ballot Issue Committee. The Committee for Colorado's Shared Heritage reported all of the support campaign's $10.1 million in contributions, 99.9 percent of which came from Protect Colorado—the committee registered to oppose Proposition 112.

The language of Issue 74 is as follows:

Section 15. Taking property for public use—compensation, how ascertained. Private property shall not be taken or damaged, or reduced in fair market value by government law or regulation for public or private use, without just compensation. Such compensation shall be ascertained by a board of commissioners, of not less than three freeholders, or by a jury, when required by the owner of the property, in such manner as may be prescribed by law, and until the same shall be paid to the owner, or into court for the owner, the property shall not be needlessly disturbed, or the proprietary rights of the owner therein divested; and whenever an attempt is made to take private property for a use alleged to be public, the question whether the contemplated use be really public shall be a judicial question, and determined as such without regard to any legislative assertion that the use is public.

This state constitutional amendment would put property rights ahead of all other values in every form of legislation and wreck havoc. But, if this polling is even remotely accurate, Issue 74 will soon become the law in Colorado.