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Man named 'TABOR' worried now that Colorado says he can be booted from his home state with a single vote

A Colorado native has a big reason to worry if TABOR is repealed (and it has nothing to do with politics).

Struggling to keep his chin up Monday, a Colorado man attempted to cope with a court’s ruling that said voters could remove him from his home state with one vote.

“My name is Tabor Smith, and it’s hurtful,” the man said in an interview with Next with Kyle Clark.

It was long-thought that TABOR couldn’t be done away with in a single vote because of its complexity, but petitioners had asked the Colorado Supreme Court to review their case. In a 5-2 decision, the court ruled voters eliminate TABOR with just one quick touch of an iPad.

Tabor, of course, always thought of himself as a complicated man – a man with emotions and layers. It’s impossible for him not to take this decision personally.

“My family’s struggling a little with it all,” Tabor Smith went on to say.

For years, Tabor’s struggled with media scrutiny. People he considered friends never hesitated to point out the coverage.

“Every time someone sees the TABOR… in the newspaper, they send me a photo of it or the news clipping itself, and I get a lot of Facebook tags on stuff like this,” Tabor Smith said.

He was named after Horace Tabor, who was known as a “Silver King” in Leadville, Colo. in the 1800s. For now, with the future unknown, this Tabor prepares himself to leave Colorado.

"I guess I’d listen to the voters. Move. I’m a native, so I don’t even know where I’d go, but I mean we’re just trying to take this news as it comes,” Tabor Smith said.

And on Twitter, he wrote: “All I ever wanted was to protect the taxpayer.”

Tabor (yes, that's his real name) knows TABOR is different, but that doesn't stop him from having a great sense of humor about the law he shares a name with. We thank him for that. Readers who want more information on the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling, click here.

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