Oh what will the unintended consequences on this beauty be?  From the Durango Herald:

DENVER – The campaign has begun to partially repeal two popular yet controversial constitutional amendments.

Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff and his allies started circulating petitions last week for his Savings Account for Education, or SAFE. The plan repeals parts of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, or TABOR, and Amendment 23.

Romanoff expects a “multimillion-dollar campaign,” he told a group of about two dozen volunteers at a Capitol Hill bar Monday night. Organizers are planning to run TV and radio ads, in addition to a volunteer, grass-roots campaign.

“I think we need both an air war and a ground game,” Romanoff said.

TABOR requires state tax refunds whenever the government collects more money than the previous year, plus inflation and population growth. Amendment 23 requires the state to spend increasing amounts on public schools. Together, the two eventually will require the state to cut non-education programs out of its budget, Romanoff said.

Rep. Douglas Bruce, the author of TABOR, is challenging the SAFE plan in court. Romanoff expects the Colorado Supreme Court to issue its ruling any day now. The campaign has cleared all the other legal hurdles to getting on the ballot, except for petition signatures.

Bruce, R-Colorado Springs, opposed the initiative during hearings this spring. But no other opposition has emerged, and the Secretary of State has no records of any opposing campaigns.

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