Mayor Hickenlooper doesn’t like it. Denver police don’t like it. City Council doesn’t like it. Interfaith leaders don’t like it. And yet, Dan Hayes persists.
This year, at least, the rhetoric is a little softer. “Getting unlicensed drivers off the road is a big deal because if one hits you, you have to have enough insurance to cover any injuries to your car, because they’re not going to have any.” That’s Hayes as quoted September 9, 2009.
Maybe he discovered that last year’s tack was too palpably racist for public consumption. Here’s Hayes on September 12, 2008: “It’s a disaster, and we’ll have more of these Hernandezes driving off the road and killing three or four people at a time.”
And here’s more Hayes, from September 5, 2007: “If we want to have any kind of future around here at all, something has to be done . . .They [illegal immigrants] don’t belong here. They need to go home and work their problems out there.”
Notice a trend? Every year about this time, Dan Hayes ratchets up the volume and tries to push his pet project into law. Voters actually approved the measure last year, but the city has thus far refused to interpret the law as uniformly as Hayes would like, largely because of headaches like this. So Hayes is cranking up the noise machine and launching his ideological crusade once more. And because of current Denver election laws, he only needed 3,972 signatures (.pdf) to put the issue back on the ballot, again.
This November, vote no on Initiative 300 and send Dan Hayes the message that Colorado does not accept his hate.
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