Aurora's city clerk just heard the final arguments for why the strong mayor petition broke city code and state law — and shouldn't be on the 2023 ballot.
Former Aurora city official Charlie Richardson and his attorney Mark Grueskin listen to Suzanne Taheri defend the strong mayor proposal before Kadee Rodriguez at a protest hearing on Wednesday.still has some life to it, even though its supporters
It's against city code and state law to sign a petition that someone doesn't fully understand. Because of this, strong mayor naysayers believe the signatures should be tossed out. Richardson, who attended the hearings last week, argues that the whole petition should be made invalid because many of its signers didn't know that it violated the city code and state law by not including a summary to explain what they were supporting.."These are typically day laborers, and there's no realistic expectation — especially with this item — that they be knowledgeable, and that leads to the critical importance of the summary.
However, Coffman and the Mountain State Solutions — an advocacy group — announced that they didn't believe the proposal would make it to the 2023 ballot because"the opponents were able to delay the process just long enough for the ballot initiative to miss a critical deadline," according to a statement from Mountain State Solutions.
Aurora resident Cassandra LaBelle argued on August 29 that the city clerk should dismiss all the signatures collected on June 1 after she provided photos to the city clerk showing canvassers gathering signatures at the post office without permission — which is against federal regulations. about the proposal's proponents."It's very clear to everyone that they were misleading people. I wanted to get it on the record, and I wanted to, if possible, make them do this again the right way.
"The gentlemen that put the petition in front of me also told me that it was to set term limits for the mayor, so I signed it because I would love to have Mike Coffman out as soon as possible," she told Rodriguez."And then I found out later on that it was [Coffman] who put it to people, and he lied. So I definitely want my name off the petition."
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