Douglas county school board

[OneGuy67]

I go with Mike Rosen. I live in Douglas and have two children attending school. I am extremely opposed to unions, and object vehemently to using taxpayer money to fund union official salaries who do no actual work for the school district.

Also the union received $1.2 mil in dues and donated approximately $800,000 to the national union, which then went right back to leftist candidates. For those of you without kids, the Teachers are anti 2A. They got involved in the Giron recall.

As for the schools, I cannot tell that there are any problems. My kids started attending under this regime. I hear parents whine, but I think that most of them have teacher pet syndrome. Frankly I never had a job where anyone asked for your feelings and input. My opinion is the teachers have a job and they need to do it and shut up.

Amd 66 is nothing more than a billion dollar restriction plan that will take money from places like Douglas county and send it to Denver and the hood, so vote no.

I agree with CO Hugh. My child is a newborn, so he won't be attending school for awhile, but I like the direction the new school board went and especially with how they have been dealing with the teachers union. I just filled out my ballot.

[paddywagon]

There was an interesting article in the CO Observer yesterday about Ronda Scholting manipulating a radio interview with Mike Rosen and the GOP candidate to make her look like she was being sexist. Ronda Scholting has various ties to liberal democrat groups over the last several years and was directly connected to Senator Giron the senator who was recalled down in Pueblo. All 4 of those that you see on the back of the car signs are teachers union and democrat supported. If you go to their websites they say nothing about their party affiliation except one who claims to be "independent". If you go to Douglas County Republican website their is some good info. My wife knows Judy Reynolds personally and she is very straight forward and a gal that really has her act together.

[SamuraiCO]

Just waiting for my ballot.

[KAPA]

Anyone know how I can get a yard sign for the Geddes Reynolds Benevento and Silverthrorn group? I see some for the enemy up in my neighborhood so it would be nice to even things out a bit.

Also, does anyone have any info on how much the unions gave to fight the recall? I remember there was a googlemaps type of overlay from a local paper that showed where all the money comes from. Am curious to find out how much $$ the union gave to the gun grabbers. Kind of makes me sick that some of these people are giving money to who they think are teachers and their kids education and it ends up going to fight a recall that the people of the state put together.

[KAPA]

NW corner of Lincoln and Chambers, some liberal soccer mom spray painted over threr signs for the good guys. Disgusting!

[CO Hugh]

Get your ballots in the union is trying to buy the election

See Completecolorado.com

[Gman]

I ran across this article looking for information while completing my Dougco ballot this evening; http://www.denverpost.com/editorials...county-schools

I'm all for keeping the union out.

[sroz]

Hope everyone cleans their annoying car/SUV windows now.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Not sure if it matters to you, but here are Mike Rosen's endorsements:

Douglas County: Doug Benvento, Meghann Silverthorn, Jim Geddes, Judi Reynolds.
Jefferson County: Julie Williams, John Newkirk, Ken Witt.
Adams 12: Debbie Christensen, Rico Figueroa.

Looks like Rosen picked all but one and Christensen was a VERY close second.

[KAPA]

I am a bit worried that some of our better teachers are going to be leaving DougCo since there is little to nothing happening in terms of pay raises. Not everything is rosy with this crew of conservatives but I think they are doing the best they can with what they have to work with. I think the liberals were relying on 66 to pass in order to get a bit more funding to do some good with it. The problem though is that a large amount of anything that 66 would have given our schools would have not gone to the schools but to outside groups that would be leaching on to all the new cash flow from 66.

Since 66 was never going to pass, the liberals could never pull off what they wanted to. If anything, their plan would have led to far less $$$ actually going to the schools since the liberals come with the unions and all the leaches. It seems to me these conservative folks knew they wouldn't have the 66 money and are planning on how to efficiently improve things without all the middle men. In the end this will give DougCo schools the best bang for their buck. Now they have the ball, lets hope they run with it and don't trip over themselves.