Douglas Bruce, famous for authoring the TABOR amendment and his cantankerous personality, may be about to meet his Waterloo. In a ruling in Denver on Friday, Administrative Law Judge Robert Spencer ruled that evidence proved Bruce was behind the efforts to get Amendment 60, Amendment 61, and Proposition 101 on the November ballot.
Bruce has denied any involvement with supporters of the ballot measures. Petition signers, however, testified that he advised them to delete all correspondence about the efforts. Some of the people working on the issues lived in rental units owned by Bruce during the time that they were obtaining signatures on the petitions to get the initiatives on the ballot.
During the month of May, Attorney General John Suthers tried 30 times to serve Bruce with a summons to appear in court. Suthers, who has a long history of dust-ups with Bruce, wanted Bruce to testify about his involvement. Evidently notices were left at Bruce’s door, and subsequently disappeared. Bruce claims that he was out of town at the time. However, Bruce filed a motion in a separate lawsuit against the state of Colorado, which was certified, and which bears a postmark. Dates on both the certification and the postmark on the envelope are during the time he claimed to be gone.
Suthers has gone to court to ask a judge to rule that Bruce has been properly served. He needs that ruling in order to file contempt of court charges against Bruce. Suthers plans to file the contempt of court charges next week. If Bruce is found guilty of contempt of court, he could face fines and/or jail. Evidently Bruce is no stranger to jail either--he served eight days in jail in 1995 under similar circumstances. Unfortunately the people who did his dirty work are also now his victims. They were fined $6,000 by Judge Spencer.
Homework:
Supporters of Evil 3 Amendments Fined
Another Story about the Judge fining Bruce Supporters
Douglas Bruce Biography
Bruce has denied any involvement with supporters of the ballot measures. Petition signers, however, testified that he advised them to delete all correspondence about the efforts. Some of the people working on the issues lived in rental units owned by Bruce during the time that they were obtaining signatures on the petitions to get the initiatives on the ballot.
During the month of May, Attorney General John Suthers tried 30 times to serve Bruce with a summons to appear in court. Suthers, who has a long history of dust-ups with Bruce, wanted Bruce to testify about his involvement. Evidently notices were left at Bruce’s door, and subsequently disappeared. Bruce claims that he was out of town at the time. However, Bruce filed a motion in a separate lawsuit against the state of Colorado, which was certified, and which bears a postmark. Dates on both the certification and the postmark on the envelope are during the time he claimed to be gone.
Suthers has gone to court to ask a judge to rule that Bruce has been properly served. He needs that ruling in order to file contempt of court charges against Bruce. Suthers plans to file the contempt of court charges next week. If Bruce is found guilty of contempt of court, he could face fines and/or jail. Evidently Bruce is no stranger to jail either--he served eight days in jail in 1995 under similar circumstances. Unfortunately the people who did his dirty work are also now his victims. They were fined $6,000 by Judge Spencer.
Homework:
Supporters of Evil 3 Amendments Fined
Another Story about the Judge fining Bruce Supporters
Douglas Bruce Biography
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