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How City Council candidates feel about letting voters decide the recreational pot question


Casey Bradley Gent
If you’re a one-issue voter and that issue is letting voters  decide if Colorado Springs should allow recreational marijuana shops, you’re in luck.
That question gets a thumbs up from candidates in five of six Colorado Springs City Council races on the April 6 ballot. Neither of the candidates in eastern District 6 responded to the
Indy’s candidate questionnaire.
The 19 candidates in the other five districts split almost evenly, 10 to 9, on whether to give voters a whack at allowing retail pot stores.
The current Council turned away a ballot measure proposal last year citing confusion over details of how it would be implemented. The marijuana industry itself has never attempted to collect the thousands of signatures needed for a citizen-driven ballot initiative, which, if their petitions were found sufficient, would take the choice out of Council’s hands.  ....

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Money pours into the sprawling Colorado Springs City Council race. Here's who's giving and where it's going. | Local News


The city election is taking place during the pandemic.
Jon Lamson
This article was produced as part of a journalism class at Colorado College, taught by Corey Hutchins. The students are Amelia Allen, Esteban Candelaria, Jon Lamson, Arlo Metzger, Will Taylor, Frances Thyer and Peyton Wright.
As the race for six seats on the Colorado Springs City Council heats up, tens of thousands of dollars are already sloshing around the campaign coffers of the nearly two dozen candidates running in the April 6 elections. 
The campaign donations show who has broad or limited support, illuminate potential coalitions among candidates who are giving to each other, and also show how much money some are willing to shell out of their own pockets to try and win a seat in city government.  ....

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Council candidates sound off on whether residents' voices are heard | News


This open space once served as Springs Ranch Golf Course but will be developed for housing.
Pam Zubeck
Hundreds of residents packed the City Council chamber on May 24, 2016, to plead that Council reject a proposed land swap that would give 189 acres of open space, known as Strawberry Fields, to The Broadmoor hotel.
Council approved it anyway.
Over the last four years, other groups of residents — some who organized and hired legal counsel — have passionately conveyed their thoughts on a variety of contentious issues only to find Council vote the other way.
That’s not lost on several people who hope to win a Council seat in the April 6 election; some named it as their chief reason for running. ....

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