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AP Poll: 78 Percent Say Public School Teachers Aren’t Paid Enough
Colorado Senate bill seeks to punish teachers with jail time should they go on strike
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Oh wait - the GOP doesn't care about that either. 
My own state, no less. 
At minimum wage. 
paul lundeen
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bob gardner
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Colour me soooooooo not surprised--bobby is a charter school/voucher/ "school choice" activist
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Gardner graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1976, and served as a missile launch officer in the Air Force.[4] While an Air Force officer, Gardner earned a J.D. from the University of Texas in 1981 with honors and a L.L.M. from the George Washington University School of Law in 1986, specializing in government procurement law.[5] After earning his law degree, Gardner served in the Judge Advocate General's Corps.[4] He also taught procurement and business law as a member of the Air Force Academy law faculty.[5]
After leaving active duty in 1989 at the rank of lieutenant colonel,[4] Gardner became an attorney in private practice, specializing in government contract law,[6] representing public contractors and charter schools. He served on the board of Cheyenne Mountain Charter Academy, which he helped found, from 1994 to 1997 and on the board of the Colorado League of Charter Schools Legal Advocacy Fund.[4] He continues to operate a private law practice in Colorado Springs, Colorado,[5] specializing in government affairs and contracts, business and commercial law, and campaign and election law.[7] The law firm website is www.rsglaw.net. Gardner is divorced; he has two adult children: Bob Jr. and Laura.[6]
Political activism
From 1993-97, Gardner served as chair of the El Paso County Republican Party[4] and was involved in numerous candidate and issue campaigns in the Colorado Springs area.[citation needed] In 1999, Gardner was treasurer for the Colorado Springs Safety Association, a group opposing a ballot measure to grant police and fire personnel collective bargaining powers.[8]
Gardner registered the political committee Citizens for Honest Government to oppose a slate of candidates during Colorado Springs' 2001 city council elections,[9] and distributed fliers critical of four candidates; he was threatened with arrest following a dispute with a deputy city clerk regarding distributing flyers near an early voting site at city hall.[10] Gardner helped coordinate campaigns for a slate of "reform" candidates for Colorado Springs School District 11 in 2003 who backed school vouchers.[11][12]
He played a prominent role in the formation in 2004 of Citizens for Student Achievement and Progress, a local political committee formed to support "education reform candidates and issues" in El Paso County,[13] In 2005, he was a spokesperson for the Colorado branch of All Children Matter, a national political group supporting school choice.[14] In 2004, Gardner worked on the campaign for a local ballot measure to increase taxes to support The Resource Exchange, a nonprofit serving people with developmental disabilities. During the campaign, he submitted, for anonymous publication in voter guides, statements opposing the tax increase including: "The families of people with mental retardation, [should] not expect the government to help," and "By funding programs to care for these children, we are encouraging irresponsibility." Others working on the campaign justified the statements as a campaign tactic designed to stir support for the tax measure.[15][16]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Gardner
