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Doug Bruce contempt hearing continues

Government lawyers are continuing to push for a tax-cutting activist from Colorado Springs to give information about his role in three ballot measures before voters this fall. The contempt-of-court hearing against Douglas Bruce continues in Denver Friday. Bruce is the father of Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill Of Rights, and the government says Bruce has been dodging [...]

Bruce hearing postponed – again

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Colorado’s best-known tax-basher has the government in fits again. Douglas Bruce, the father of Colorado’s tax-limiting Taxpayer Bill of Rights, was awarded a second delay Wednesday in contempt-of-court charges against him. The postponement left government lawyers and Denver District Court Judge Brian Whitney exasperated because they’ve been trying unsuccessfully for months to get Bruce to [...]

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