A hard time to tinker with TABOR

Many political, business and community leaders agree the budget gridlock enshrined in the state constitution needs fixing, but as the continued unraveling of a plan to relax TABOR shows, now may not be the time, reports Jessica Fender.

A changed political climate has left Republicans — who are needed to sell the proposal to voters — maneuvering to take back the legislative majority and unlikely to rile their conservative base by supporting House Speaker Romanoff's initiative.

Additonally, Gov. Ritter has been hesitant to back the plan as he rolls out his own, top-priority ballot initiative that's likely to suck up available campaign funding.

And so, Fender writes, a plan carefully crafted by House Speaker Romanoff to appeal to a
Democrats and moderate Republicans continues to falter in
building the type of coalition that helped Referendum C pass.

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