Left, right jockey over jobs as vote nears on Proposition 103
“An eleventh-hour emergency audit request—and there is no such thing as an emergency audit—by someone, who is running for Congress, and who already has access to the information he is seeking, amounts to political grandstanding.”
“Schools and parents are going to love what this bill does … Other states are watching what we do on this and I think we’ll be on the leading edge of this issue.”
Lawmakers opposing Proposition 103 say the sales-and-income-tax hike will cost Colorado 119,000 jobs and $218 million in taxable income.
“It can be just as detrimental to over-discipline as it is to under-discipline. There are just too many instances where kids are caught up in this policy unjustifiably.”
“Parents are bosses in the school system and deserve to be as fully informed as the school districts are. We need to put the safety of children … ahead of the interests of dues-paying employees …”
“This is nanny government in every sense…. disallowing the consumption of whole milk without a note from a doctor is ridiculous.”
“We need to look at discipline options so that kids don’t end up being criminalized in their own schools.”
“Good government prevailed as we learned to work together. In most cases, compromise took precedence over partisan politics.”
Read our legislative wrap for the final word on which bills passed and which fell short.
