Colorado recall targets conservative school board members

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Colorado recall targets conservative school board members
Ivan Moreno, Associated Press
Updated 10:33 am, Saturday, October 31, 2015



DENVER (AP) — Angry parents and educators in a Colorado battleground county are trying to recall three conservative school board members Tuesday, citing several complaints, including a change in how teachers get pay raises and talk of reviewing the history curriculum to promote patriotism.

The idea prompted students to walk out of class and protest in the streets last year. Teachers staged sick-outs, the Jefferson County district claimed.

The board members facing recalls cruised to victory in 2013, but their arrival quickly caused a stir. The superintendent of the school district, Cindy Stevenson, left days after their election, saying she felt disrespected by them and couldn't do her job anymore.

Then came a decision to tie teacher pay increases to performance rather than seniority, and accusations that the three conservatives on the five-member board were meeting privately before scheduled meetings. Ken Witt, Julie Williams and John Newkirk have repeatedly denied holding secret meetings.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Colorado-recall-targets-conservative-school-board-6602616.php

[turbinetree]

1. This should be on the evening news out there in Colorado, like on Channel 9...every night...........

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/koch-group-floods-colorado-with-cash-to-save-conservatives-who-pushed-right-wing-ap-history-class/

http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/10/30/18684/koch-brothers-higher-ed-investments-advance-political-goals

http://co.chalkbeat.org/2015/10/30/smoke-screen-of-outside-money-complex-disclosure-laws-obscure-spending-in-school-board-races/#.VjUvwTZdHIU

And whats really amazing is there father, David and Chuckles Koch was paid by STALIN-----------------that's a historical fact


They can't erase that fact ........................


Honk-----------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016

[hlthe2b]

2. Koch Bros trying to pack other school boards in CO as well. Coloradoans, if you haven't voted yet..

hand deliver your ballots... A lot of crap is trying to get through on the local level thanks to outside money/interests....

See my post here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10411990

[turbinetree]

7. Lakewood...........................

was were I use to live and I really do like Colorado.

I now see from the distance how the corruption is from the outside interests are really taking the state down the wrong path, by the likes of the Kochs. and other "rich" jerks, and I am glad that you and thousand of others in the state are seeing what these hypocrites are trying to do.
If Coloradans don't think it can happen, they should look at one town in Wisconsin and what they did there with the school board and a city called Ironwood Wisconsin.

This is what happens when individuals got there money from there father who sided with a man (Stalin) that killed thousands in the Gulags of death and blood.

http://billmoyers.com/2014/04/01/how-to-vote-against-the-koch-brothers/


http://www.kenoshanews.com/news/americans_for_prosperity_throws_its_weight_into_kenosha_unified_school_board_race_476239373.html




Honk----------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016

[marble falls]

9. They look like classic cult members: dressed the same, tired looking with unnatural, forced grins.

[turbinetree]

14. Yep........................

and everyone should be told that there father supported and got his "money" from blood in Russia--------------it's that simple


Honk---------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016

[sharp_stick]

3. I really hope this succeeds

Having morons on the school board is a sure way to screw up an entire generation.

[JimDandy]

4. Ha! I knew it this had to be about Jefferson County. n/t

[Paladin]

10. Yeah, Jeffco was my guess, as well.

Home of Coors beer, and the right-wing politics that go with it.

[EL34x4]

11. Yep. Same here.

I grew up in Jefferson County. Haven't lived there in about 25 years when I left home for college and haven't lived in Colorado since '03. Still have a lot of family there.

My brother is a public school teacher in neighboring Douglas County. He says ALEC has pretty much taken over the school boards. He loathes them with every ounce of his being and is about ready to throw in the towel on his teaching career because of them. Sad, because he loves the classroom.

[jalan48]

5. Great to hear.

Run their sorry asses off. This is how liberals can start to take back the country from the ignorant bigots, one step at a time.

[Beartracks]

6. All politics is local. Or at least STARTS local. Vote. Every. Time. n/t

[marble falls]

8. How do we start this in Texas?

[tabasco]

13. Texas might be too far down the rabbit hole,

but you can't stop fighting.

[marble falls]

15. I'm moving to Oregon as soon as posible.

[tabasco]

12. Wow - good for them!

So great to see a revolt against the pro-ignorance and pro-stupidity "conservatives."

[Nac Mac Feegle]

16. George Orwell quote:

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
-1984


This is the essence of the modern Republican party. They want to be behind the boot. They don't realize that they are just as likely to be behind the face. They are in denial, and ignorance perpetuates that.