Yesterday the effort to raise more municipal taxes called Ballot measure 2C went down to total defeat more than 2 to 1. While many who voted against this measure had all the worst of motives, the measure needed to be defeated since it really was a ballot measure to try to continue to run the city the way it has been done, and entirely on behalf of the local business community tied totally into profiting from the gigantic military industrial welfare complex that dominates Colorado Springs. Now there is a new move afoot, to hold current local leaders responsible for the mess they are making of the city. These smug bosses should not be allowed to continue in office and cutback local services, all other than the bloated policing and administrative office positions that now suck the city budget dry and that the current crew in power wants to maintain.

Here below is reprinted is the Colorado Springs Gagzette article word for word announcing this recall effort against the Mayor and his sidekick.

Homeless advocate targets mayor, vice mayor for recall

November 04, 2009
DANIEL CHACÓN
THE GAZETTE
A homeless advocate and retired Army officer is launching a recall of Colorado Springs Mayor Lionel Rivera and Vice Mayor Larry Small.

“I believe both Mr. Rivera and Mr. Small have been and are unable to do what this city requires to become financially stable and provide what (its) citizens need,” Patrick Ayers said in an e-mail.

“They along with other members of the (City Council) bear much of the major responsibility for our current state of affairs,” he said.

Ayers did not immediately return a call for comment.

City Clerk Kathryn Young, whose office conducts municipal elections, which includes “the issuance, acceptance and verification” of recall petitions, also did not immediately return a call for comment.

Ayers will officially announce the recall effort at noon Friday outside City Hall, 107 N. Nevada Ave., according to Ayers’ e-mail.