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meadowlark5

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8. I'm assuming, as happened here in Dougco, there was a lot of outside money.

Thu Sep 25, 2014, 08:24 PM

Sep 2014

We had a Koch funded group dumping money into our BOE election. Jeb Bush even stepped up and donated $5000 to our reformers. Was it Scott Gessler who suspended his campaign staff to work to get the reformer candidates elected? And there was a conservative christian group, national but can't think of the name right now, who was funneling money into the election as well. A local BOE election and you have billionaires and people who don't even live in the state buying the election.

Even with all that money, our last BOE election the nuts won by barely 3000 votes. Not a mandate but in their eyes it is. So carry on with their path of disaster. We lost 22 principals at the end of the last school year in May. That's the number I know about, there could have been more.

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Jeffco School Protests: Context and Context [View all] politicat Sep 2014 OP

More power to them and I hope they are successful! meadowlark5 Sep 2014 #1

Last year's election had a strategic flaw: Amendment 66. politicat Sep 2014 #5

I'm assuming, as happened here in Dougco, there was a lot of outside money. meadowlark5 Sep 2014 #8

Oh, yes. That AstroTurf Jeffco Students First Action was almost certainly Koch money. politicat Sep 2014 #9

I'm still trying to find out what came down onto the principals to make them bolt meadowlark5 Sep 2014 #10

Not me, I'm in Boulder Valley. That's why I don't mind talking about it. politicat Sep 2014 #11

I wish we could have moved to Boulder school district meadowlark5 Sep 2014 #13

Lville, Lfayette, Superior are not too bad on price if you don't mind older. politicat Sep 2014 #14

I'm quite proud to say that my grandson, who goes to Columbine, Blue_In_AK Sep 2014 #2

Good on your grandson! politicat Sep 2014 #6

Thanks for an excellent report and background of what's happening in Jefferson County locks Sep 2014 #3

Excellent post! It deserves an award. tech3149 Sep 2014 #4

Thanks! politicat Sep 2014 #7

k and r and thank you for posting this. niyad Sep 2014 #12

Thanks for writing this great article! kaiden Oct 2014 #15

Thank - glad you found it helpful! politicat Oct 2014 #16

I work with an attorney who used to be a teacher and whose wife currently teaches. kaiden Oct 2014 #17

Thanks for the link. politicat Oct 2014 #18