Marostica: hands off TABOR; focus on Amd. 23, Gallagher

Face the State: Rep. Don Marostica, R-Loveland, found himself on the outs with his own party last session for siding with Democrats on key budget issues and his sponsorship of Senate Bill 228, which eliminated the 6 percent growth cap on general government spending. Face The State recently caught up with Marostica, who was appointed to serve on the legislature's Long-Term Fiscal Interim Committee. While Democrats mull a plan to address the expiration of Referendum C (and thus the return of constitutional limits on spending), Marostica thinks Colorado would better off re-evaluating the Amendment 23 formula and the Gallagher Amendment first. "It's a long haul," Marostica said. "We've got to go back to the voters. It may be a 10 year plan to figure it out mathematically." Gov. Bill Ritter, on the other hand, recently hinted that a repeal of TABOR's spending limits might comes as early as 2011. "We said we began to untie the Gordian knot [in the state's constitution] with the 6 percent solution, but that we need to deal with TABOR," Ritter told The Denver Post. "We need to deal with it in November 2011 on the ballot. And we need to plan with how we deal with it with a group of people from across the state." SB 228's other sponsor was Sen. John Morse, D-Colorado Springs, who recently told the Denver Business Journal, "This is a fight for the soul of Colorado and it's just beginning." But unlike the Democrats with whom Marostica has aligned himself, he recognizes TABOR as a popular feature of Colorado’s constitution. “I think if you poll TABOR, you won't see much change [from when it was passed],” he said. “People really like it.”

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