Colorado’s Constitutional Rewrites Are Bitter Ballot Issue

DENVER (AP) — Jerry Sonnenberg’s state Senate district encompasses 11 counties and 91,000 voters in Colorado’s northeastern plains. When it comes to statewide ballot measures on issues such as water rights in faraway cities, he wants his rural constituents to have a say.
So Sonnenberg has joined a well-funded coalition of Republicans, Democrats, business, energy and agricultural interests in supporting Amendment 71, an initiative that would make it tougher to change Colorado&rs