Denver Post
March 2, 2011,

RTD directors were warned in the strongest terms yet Tuesday night that this is not the year to ask metro Denver voters to approve a sales-tax increase for the financially stressed FasTracks program. "Based on recent research, we do not believe 2011 is the year to ask for any sort of tax increase," said John Huggins, executive director of the pro-FasTracks group Coalition for Smart Transit. Huggins and RTD political consultant Maria Garcia Berry listed numerous reasons why voters this year would probably reject a tax measure aimed at closing the FasTracks funding gap. Berry said recent polling focused on what typically is an older and more conservative electorate in off-year elections and survey results showed "trying to pursue an election in 2011 is a very risky proposition." Huggins said it is unlikely FasTracks proponents could raise the millions of dollars needed to win a campaign for a tax increase. ...

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