Senator Schultheis' Nov 5th 2024 Voting Recommendations

 

Nov. 5th Voting Recommendations Because of the huge left-wing bias in both the Colorado House and Senate, I urge you to consider voting for ALL Republican candidates in both House and Senate.  REPUBLICANS NEED MAJORITIES TO CONTROL COMMITTEES, OR AT LEAST A LARGE ENOUGH MINORITY TO KEEP THE DEMOCRATS FROM RETAINING SUPER MAJORITIES.  THAT MIGHT KEEP THE REPUBLICANS FROM STOPPING SOME OF THEIR EGREGIOUS LAWS. Candidate for President - Vote for: Donald Trump Candidate for U.S. Senate - Vote for: Every Republican Candidate for U.S. Congress - Vote for: Every Republican Regent of University of Colorado -- Vote for: Every Republican Candidates for Colorado House of Representatives - Vote for: Every Republican so that Democrats cannot achieve a Super Majority Candidates for Colorado State Senate - Vote for Every Republican so Democrats cannot achieve a Super Majority  El Paso County Commissioner: CCDD3 Bill Wysong CCD4  Cory Applegate CU Board of Regents -- Eric Rinard    Amendment 79: Right to Abortion and Health Insurance Coverage Initiative - Vote NO  " to oppose creating a right to abortion in the state constitution and oppose repealing a constitutional provision that bans the use of public funds for abortion.  For more information, Click here ,  Amendment 80: School Choice. Affirm Parents' Rights.  Vote NO.  Don't be fooled! The wording of this Amendment is extremely miss-leading (on purpose?).  Please read this from the homeschool organization. "Giving a positive right to an education to a child is a Marxist idea and is antithetical to God's order."  It is just one more element of Marxism ideology that has been creeping into the public education system for decades. Read this., and this. Proposition JJ: Retain Additional Sports Betting Tax Revenue Vote NO This is one more misleading tact to increase goverment funds.   Proposition KK: Firearms and Ammunition Excise Tax Vote NO One more egregious attempt to undermine the 2nd Amendment by reducing our ability to purchase firearms. Amendment G: Modify Property Tax Exemption for Veterans with Disabilities  YES Amendment H:  Judicial Discipline Procedures and Confidentiality  YES Read this.  Amendment I: Constitutional Bail Exception for First Degree Murder   Vote YES Amendment J: Repealing the Definition of Marriage in the Constitution  Vote NO Amendment K:  Modify Constitutional ElectionDeadlines Vote NO Proposition 127:  Prohibit Bobcat, Lyx, and Mountain Lion Hunting  Vote NO.  Big cats provide valuable ecological contributions.    Read this. Proposition 128: Parole Eligibility for Crimes of Violence  Vote YES!  Proposition 129:Establishing Veterinary Professional Associates.  Vote NO.  This Proposition, if passed, increases government reach into this profesion. Proposition 130: Funding for Law Enforcement. Vote YES Proposition 131: Establishing All-Candidate Primary and Ranked Choice Voting General Election. Read this. Vote NOOOOO!  Vote NO on the following Judge suggestions.  Monica Marquez:  Involved with liberal organizations, including LGBT Gilbert Roman (Involved with Hispanic organzations which show race bias when judges should remain free of such biases Stephanie Dunn (Chair of Denver Diversity Commitee), instead, focus should be on Unity of Principles W. Eric Kuhn (Graduate Degree from liberal Colorado College) Timothy Schutz (A "Champion" of race equality w/in the Justice system YES for All other judges

2A  -- NO--Monument: To Increase Lodging Taxes.  A favorite source of additonal funds because it mainly comes from Colorado visitors instead of asking for funds from resisdents.

2C -- NO-- City of Colorado Springs: Although this Referred Measure state that "Without imposing any new tax..." it IS in fact a new tax. Too frequently the city places this issue on the ballot after roads are in dire need of repair rather than allocating and acknowledging this continuing expense in the city's budget.  Is this continuing underfunding road maintence done on purpose?  One must wonder.

2D -- YES -- Prohibit Retail Marijuana Establishments Within the City Limits.

4A -- NO -- Harrison School District 2. It's as if salaries are the ONLY avenue for finding excellent teachers, and ignoring the discouragemnt of those teachers due to the increasing number of subjects that run counter to our nation's founding principles and morals. Furthermore the request does not include specific needs.

4B -- NO -- Academy School District 20. School districts, like most others, MUST stop taking Federal Funds.  School Boards look at this "free" money with the requirement that they provide a only a small percentage of local taxpayer funds.  Easy money slowly erodes the finances of the citizens to use as they see fit. The reading/math/science scores are not even moderatly acceptable in most public schools.  Our nation is suffering as a result.  Finally, money from the federal government to the schools creates dependency, increasing reporting demands, and minimal accountability on how the funds are spent. Proverbs 22:7 suggests that debt can be a means of control, where the borrower is beholden to the lender and must conform to their demands.  

Question 300: NO -- Allowing recreational cannabis in Colorado Springs.  See here for a good review of the issues.  Colorado Springs City Council has, in the past, NOT allowed recreational cannabis to be sold in the city's limits.  This citizens Initiative is to reverse the City Council's stand.  Let's continue to support the Council's decision.

 

Colorado Times Recorder Journalist, better known as the LEFTIST "Furry", Heidi Beedle, displays deliberate ignorance.

After ten years in the Colorado House of Representative (6yrs), and Senate (4 yrs), staying true to the strong patriotic, limited-government and conservative cultural principles on which I campaigned, found only one partially-true article by the Rocky Mountain and Denver Post journalist, Lynn Bartels.  As the leftist-press consistently does, it takes a current issue and references an old issue that can be twisted like a pretzel to make the individual look bad.  These journalists wallow in the muck that they actually create.  Is there  

That recent article can now be found here, and is totally misleading. Knowing how "journalists" attempt to incriminate strong conservatives, I wrote a rebuttal explaining the accurate scenario that prompted my vote and comments.  Unfortunately Lynn Bartels, who I miscalculated in considering her a friendly reporter after nearly ten years,  saw to it that the article was twisted far beyond recognition.  You can read my explanation here .

I learned soon after my election to the Colorado House of Representatives that strong Republican conservatives are a point of serious contention, not only among the Democrats, but also with the party's leadership.

Colorado Times Recorder Journalist, better known as the LEFTIST "Furry," Heidi Beedle, shows himself, now referring to himself as "they,"  once again as an anti-American trash periodical writer.

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Govenor Polis' twisted logic on Education

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DENVER (AP) — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis proposed a $34.5 billion state budget Wednesday for the next fiscal year, once again emphasizing early and higher education investments and seeking to increase rainy-day reserves.

Polis presented his request to the Joint Budget Committee, which will craft a balanced budget during the 2020 legislative session.

Polis noted that the requested funding increase of 2.9% kept with the inflation rate, Colorado Politics reported.

"There's not a lot of free money" available, he said.  Hmmm is there any such a thing?

Polis wants to increase general fund reserve to 7.5% of state obligations from the current 7.25% to help the state weather a possible economic downturn.

The Democratic governor previously instituted full-day, state-funded kindergarten and increased pre-school enrollment. He wants to boost state-funded preschool enrollment by 6,000 children next year.

Polis requested $52 million to help reduce unfunded state obligations to K-12 schools to about $520 million; $10 million for capital improvements to public colleges and universities; and $14 million to help college students make payments on their loans during the first two years after graduation.

Tuition at public colleges and universities would rise by 3% under his plan.

Polis wants $550 million for transportation. He also has outlined a plan to give state workers two months of paid family leave.

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Information from: The Gazette, http://www.gazette.com

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Timely Comments and Quotes By Noah Webster and others on Education and other Important Issues

Childhood innocence is a powerful political tool.  By now (20 yrs. from 9/11) those youngsters are grown up.  They have graduated from college, entered professions, begun corporate careers and become voters.  Some are teachers.  They bring with them into adult life the attitudes they have been carefully taught.  

There is more than a single cause for the ruin of a nation.  Still, historical ignorance and its harvest of disbelief in the rightness of this country (USA) -- generated in the classrooms -- is a powerful destroyer." The federalist.com

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you haven't realized the importance of education the young, READ THIS:

“...the final conclusion would surely be that whereas other civilizations have been brought down by attacks of barbarians from without, ours had the unique distinction of training its own destroyers at its own educational institutions, and then providing them with facilities for propagating their destructive ideology far and wide, all at the public expense. Thus, did Western Man decide to abolish himself, creating his own boredom out of his own affluence, his own vulnerability out of his own strength, his own impotence out of his own erotomania, himself blowing the trumpet that brought the walls of his own city tumbling down, and having convinced himself that he was too numerous, labored with pill and scalpel and syringe to make himself fewer. Until at last, having educated himself into imbecility, and polluted and drugged himself into stupefaction, he keeled over--a weary, battered old brontosaurus--and became extinct.” ― Malcolm Muggeridge, Vintage Muggeridge: Religion and Society

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. -- Abraham Lincoln

Relevant Colorado Constitutional Sections Pertaining to Public Schools

 

ARTICLE 9

Section 3.  School fund inviolate. The public-school fund of the state shall, except as provided in this article IX, forever remain inviolate and intact and the interest and other income thereon, only, shall be expended in the maintenance of the schools of the state, and shall be distributed amongst the several counties and school districts of the state, in such manner as may be prescribed by law. No part of this fund, principal, interest, or other income shall ever be transferred to any other fund, or used or appropriated, except as provided in this article IX. The state treasurer shall be the custodian of this fund, and the same shall be securely and profitably invested as may be by law directed. The state shall supply all losses thereof that may in any manner occur. In order to assist public schools in the state in providing necessary buildings, land, and equipment, the general assembly may adopt laws establishing the terms and conditions upon which the state treasurer may (1) invest the fund in bonds of school districts, (2) use all or any portion of the fund or the interest or other income thereon to guaranty bonds issues by school districts, or (3) make loans to school districts. Distributions of interest and other income for the benefit of public schools provided in this article IX shall be in addition to and not a substitute for other moneys appropriated by the general assembly for such purposes.

Section 8.  Religious test and race discrimination forbidden � sectarian tenets. No religious test or qualification shall ever be required of any person as a condition of admission into any public educational institution of the state, either as a teacher or student; and no teacher or student of any such institution shall ever be required to attend or participate in any religious service whatsoever. No sectarian tenets or doctrines shall ever be taught in the public school, nor shall any distinction or classification of pupils be made on account of race or color, nor shall any pupil be assigned or transported to any public educational institution for the purpose of achieving racial balance.

As amended by the People, November 5, 1974 � Effective upon proclamation of the Governor, December 20, 1974.

Section 15.  School districts � board of education. The general assembly shall, by law, provide for organization of school districts of convenient size, in each of which shall be established a board of education, to consist of three or more directors to be elected by the qualified electors of the district. Said directors shall have control of instruction in the public schools of their respective districts.

Section 16.  Textbooks in public schools. Neither the general assembly nor the state board of education shall have power to prescribe textbooks to be used in the public schools.

Comments on the Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) Initiative

 On March 16th, the School District D20 Accountability Committee presented the Superintendent's Initiative,  Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), to the D20 Board of Directors (BOD). A DEI RFP Selection Committee was formed, consisting of 15 members.  There were 7 proposals and 4 Presentations.  The Award was made to Colorado Education Initiative (CEI).  Question:  Who or what group authorized the school Superintendent to proceed with this Equity Audit and Task Force, and on what basis of need?  What were the specific facts from which the Superintendent and the Board made this decision?

The Collaborative Input Model developed implies the following: "Increasing concern has been expressed in recent months by students, parents, and patrons regarding restricted educational opportunities based on race and/or skin color, disproportionate discipline statistics, exclusion of marginalized populations, expressions of hate and racism, and the absence of a culturally diverse staff in Academy District 20"  "This expression is concerning and has no place in our school district."

This  "concern" smells of boilerplate verbiage designed to create work for CEI, as it is apparent that their reason for being is to be paid for grants to identify "problems" that the school will then pay them to specifically "identify" so that the CEI staff can then suggest solutions that they will then be paid to monitor.  

Question:  As one reviews the scope of DEI programs across the U.S. and realizes that DEI is spreading...see Critical Race Training in Education , it becomes immediately evident that it is a multi-billion business built on the false premise that there is systemic racism EVERYWHERE.

Therefore, this (CEI) initiative must immediately be discontinued, UNLESS the Superintendent can identify a substantial number of students/faculty to verify that there is in fact continuing "victims" of widespread "systemic racism" and indicates that he is unable to handle such complaints within the policies of the school.  If the Superintendent indicates that he and staff are unable to deal with this false narrative, then the Board should reevaluate whether its policies are sufficient or whether the Superintendent should evaluate his hiring practices.

This Equity Audit should be scrubbed immediately because our American ethos does not uphold the concept of Equity, but rather Equal Opportunity for all, regardless of race.  To the contrary, the Equity Audit Framework includes, 

• Equity in student outcomes
• Equity in student access
• Equity in resources and supports
• Equity in students' school experiences
• Equity in families' school experiences and 
• Equity in staff members' school experiences

The D20 School Board should reexamine its policies with respect to maintaining any statistics on the race of students and faculty, because the keeping of these statistics is racist on its face and leads to decisions based on race.

DEI MUST be completely scrubbed!!!! It is no more than an adjunct to Critical Race Theory.  We must be DONE with classifying ANYONE by Race.  We must adhere to being a race-blind community.  

Dave Schultheis, Concerned citizen and D20 property taxpayer.