Layoff veteran aims to put outsourcing ban on Nov. ballot (Colorado)

[UpInArms]

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~33~2280397,00.html

Until this year, Richard Armstrong never involved himself in politics.

"I voted. That's it," said the 40- year-old software engineer - the force behind a possible November ballot initiative that would prevent Colorado government from hiring workers overseas and temporary foreign workers in the United States.

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A flag flies year-round in front of Armstrong's Parker home. He's pro-business. He voted for George W. Bush.

"At the same time, I'm very pro-worker," and, he said, "I won't vote for him again."

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So Armstrong wants to take the message to voters. He says he and his group are 70 percent of the way toward collecting the roughly 68,000 signatures needed to get Proposal 139, "Protection of American Workers," onto this year's ballot. They have two weeks left.

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Anyone in Colorado that can help this guy get his signatures?