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August 18, 2015 05:08 PM UTC
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Cry havoc and slip loose the dogs of war!
Good job, Jeffco organizers.
Very impressive.
Now will be curious to track the $$$ flowing from the Kochtopus and similar groups to defend the conservative incumbents.
It's not all Koch money – some of it is Independence Institute /Heritage Foundation /Coors Foundation money. Some of it is right out of the Republican and Tea Party activist base and funds. It's basically the same 15 or so people playing musical chairs with media groups, foundations and nonprofits, and school boards. Perhaps someone will write a diary on it someday.
Some places to start, if you want to begin investigating:
Devan Crean (former right wing blogger, Dougco activist, now hired in Jeffco in Marketing and Media) – her website Education Reform, is funded by Independence Institute and Compass Colorado.
LIsa Pinto, just resigned as Jeffco Communications mgr, was the former communications director of the RNC's Independent Expenditure Committee, known as COREIEC, and also of Novitas Commuications.
JeffcoStudentsFirst.org, the anti-recall, pro-Board group, has walk pieces funded by the Koch's AFP-Colorado. They are an out of state corporate nonprofit with an 18 million dollar budget in 2012. (found on TRACER – look the name up under businesses)
Coloradans for Real Education Reform – This was the group that defeated Amendment 66. Jonathan Lockwood, of Advancing Colorado, and paid by the Koch Bros for the last three years, was the media mastermind there. They are funded by Compass Colorado and the Independence Institute.
Under everyone's radar is the state Board of Education, which potentially could be completely controlled by Republican anti-common core people, filling Marcia Neal's and potentially two other vacancies. Anita Stapleton is just one of these candidates. The Koch brothers are virulently anti-common core, and these candidates will probably get a nice little snort of Koch to jumpstart their campaigns.
This is just some of the info I collected on funding in education issues in Colorado. My process is that I just collect links, read, and become informed for a long time before I'm ready to write about an issue. But if you feel inspired to research and write, please do.
These Losers out-losered the Losers who tried this same bunch of Loser crap in CoSprings D-11 where the whole bunch of Conservative Nut Losers were Recalled.
And we wonder why they wanted to change the AP History curriculum? Nope….they were doomed from the start.
Last Friday night, at the recently renovated Avalon theatre in Grand Junction, my wife and I attended a screening of a documentary film entitled, Education, Inc. The "reform effort" in Douglas County and Jeffco is the subject of the fairly short, but very informative and energizing film. Over $500,000,000 per year of taxpayer money is up for grabs. By some accounts, the corporate charter school industry has its sights set on district 51, next or very soon.
I told the crowd of some 150 in the theatre about Pols coverage of the situation and invited them to join us. Pols coverage of the corporate raiding of our schools might be good reading for lots of Grand Valley folks…
The recall organizers obviously had an impressive signature gathering effort. Yet it appears they really screwed up the calendar timing of this effort. I'm surprised they made such a blunder. It seems they could've timed the petition submission to allow for the Clerk's verification period and the potential protest perioud to all happen in time for it to still land on the November general election ballot. Now they resort to "THOSE PEOPLE who protest may cause this to cost $thousands. Seems to me this could've been avoided by better planning.
No, that's not the case–and the planning was meticulous. If the petitions were turned in earlier and no one protested, the recall election would have then been scheduled separately from the November general election. If the opposition did protest, it's also likely that they would have missed the general election window. The full explanation is here: http://jeffcounitedforaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Overlapping-Election-Recall-Timelines.pdf
They simply forgot the job they were elected to do. Who can forget the Denver Post puff piece where the Nevilles compared themselves to the Kennedys because of their school board triumph in Jeffco. They had a voter mandate and spent every day squandering it in some manner. All three will be overwhelmingly voted out of office come November
Wow, that was quick. Three successor Jeffco School Board Candidates popped up on my Facebook feed.
Ron Mitchell, Brad Rupert, Susan Harmon plus the two who already announced for the two vacancies: Ali Lasell and Amanda Stevens.
I'd say that the timing was pretty darn good, considering that these folks had to have already gotten the petition signatures for their candidacies while we were waiting to see if the opponents would challenge the validity of the recall petition signatures.