Comments on: Fischer: City changing COPs plan

By: owleye

owleye — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:58:40 +0000

Calm down Hughes. Your premise that a citizen has to be an elected official to offer thoughtful dissent is unAmerican. You must have some ax to grind with Lindsay (with an “a”, not an “e”) to say your words. Come clean dude. Bottom line is that it is not the municipal government’s responsibility to leverage the public treasury to provide real property to any institution — public or private. Where does such a premise end — I don’t want to find out. I prefer green parks, strong police force and paved streets. If our community doesn’t offer natural benefits to the USOC to advance their mission, then they should go where they can be realized. Nobody cared when the bull riders headed to Pueblo, which emptied Buck Blessing’s building and cost the community 100 jobs — what’s the difference in an economic development sense? Let’s do business with companies who can sustain their presence here because it makes business sense for them to do so. They’re out there …

By: dave hughes

dave hughes — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:02:14 +0000

If long time Colo Springs Attorney Lindsey Fisher had any magic solutions to (1) the City being able to pay its bills with that rotten Tabor Amendment making it virtually impossible from the ratchet-down effect or (2) any ways to attract new businesses to the Springs or hold on to ones we have (USOC) then I would listen to him. But as one of these tiresome critics of EVERYTHING THE ELECTED OFFICIALS OF THE CITY TRIES, I refuse to listen to his carping.

If Lindsey Fisher had as many solutions as he pulls up problems and tries to throw obstacles in front of every initiative, I wish he would run for Council so I can see if he can run the city any better than those on there are doing now. Its time for him to put his money where his mouth is.

By: Kent

Kent — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:42:21 +0000

Lindsey needs to look at Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition v. Ortiz, Owens et al.

In this case a challenge was made to the Colorado COPS statute on the same grounds as he proposes . The trial Court found that the statute was legal and its decision was affirmed by the Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court affirmed that ruling without a hearing.

This ship has sailed.