Caldara’s Tax-Freeze Joke
For months, I’ve been bugging Jon Caldara to tell me when he was going to file his lawsuit challenging this year’s new law freezing the tax rate in most counties.
The law was passed to help straighten out Colorado’s state budget mess.
Caldara’s been threatening to file a lawsuit for months, milking media coverage along the way.
On Wed., I emailed him:
Hi Jon …• The end of the year is upon us, and I still don’t see a lawsuit filed by you regarding the tax-rate freeze. Have you changed your plans on this? If not, what’s up? As always, thanks for your reply, Jason
He replied with this on Thursday: “We decided not to file.”
Of course, this was just hours after he announced that his lawsuit was finally filed, so this was Caldara’s attempt at a joke.
My about-to-be-former colleague Matt Poundstone suggested that Caldara needs a nickname, ideally related to his over-exposure in the Colorado media. So we came up with these:
Jon “Interview Me” Caldara
Jon “I AM COLORADO AND SO CAN YOU” Caldara
Jon “Big PR” Caldara
Media Jon
Jon “thinks-he’s-a-comedian” Caldara Jon “I-should’ve-been…•a-comedian” Caldara Jon “Failed Cartoonist” Caldara Fading Comedian Jon Jon “B-grade Comedian” Caldara
Jon “Comedian” Caldara
And then I collected these from other friends:
Jon “Windex Forehead” Caldara
Jon “Doug Bruce With A Goatee” Caldara
Jon “Toll Troll” Caldara
Jon “I Frighten Children” Caldara
Jon “The Dildo” Caldara (historical reference)
Baldara
Asshat
I asked Caldara what he thought of some of these nicknames, and he emailed his favorite: “failed comedian, successful adult film star Jon Caldara” If you’ve got ideas, let me know.