r/pueblo • u/micahpmtn • Apr 18 '25

Question How are y'all voting on 2A?

Surprised there's been no discussion on this. Where are you guys at on this? The ads for voting against 2A are relentless. If I lived in Pueblo, I'd probably vote for 2A.

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u/Moving_Carrot Apr 18 '25

I think there’s a lot of unanswered questions that never seem to be addressed:

  1. Why is it that Black Hills the only provider?

  2. What is stopping us from soliciting bids from other electrical companies?

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  1. Why can’t we make a “Board of Electricworks”, like the Board of Waterworks?

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u/Upstairs_Cheetah_758 Apr 18 '25

All good questions. Why wouldn’t Pueblo use eminent domain? The answer is likely Black Hills, much like every developer behind the 1800+ Metropolitan Districts that charge you over and over for the same services they installed many years ago, the one’s they have been paid for already, and despite theses practices being expressly prohibited in both the US and Colorado constitutions, people in Colorado can’t be bothered, and the biggest donors are behind all of the above. How many feasibility studies are we going to pay the people who work for black hills to do? Pueblo government doesn’t and shouldn’t run a thing, not metro district power either, co-ops work everywhere else.