CSI: Ballot distraction before real disaster hits

Whose fingerprints are really on three November ballot questions that could reduce Colorado to the functional equivalent of a banana republic?

The prime suspect is transplanted Californian, anti-tax crusader, former state legislator, lawyer and landlord Douglas Bruce. He claims he did not write nor finance Proposition 101 and Amendments 60 and 61, but circumstantial evidence seems otherwise. The nominal sponsors have testified their marching orders came from a mysterious “Mr. X,” they received legal advice from Bruce and eight petition circulators lived in the same Colorado Springs apartment building owned by Bruce.

This farce has become a long-running engagement because the caped…