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.

https://senatorschultheis.blogspot.com/2009/02/

Election Recommendations for November 7, 2023

"It is an honor to again submit my voting records for November 7, 2023"

Senator, Dave Schultheis 

Know that I have studied each issue carefully and submit my recommendations for consideration.

Proposition HH, according to the Ballot Information Booklet indicates that HH Reduce Property Taxes and Retain State Revenue.  

VOTE NO ON PROPOSITION H H

1. Know that the Legislature voted to place this on the ballot.  It was NOT a Citizen Initiative.
2. Know that the majority of legislators hold extremely progressive views.
3. Know that the majority of legislators see no reason to reduce income to the state.
4. Know that the majority of the legislators are more than anxious to unravel TABOR, that is ingrained in Colorado's constitution for the purpose of limiting government spending and returning any surplus to the voters.
5. Know that HH is crafted to begin reducing TABOR refunds after 2023 and to eventually increase state spending beyond what TABOR would allow.
6. HH Will allow as much as $20 million taxpayer dollars to be reallocated to rental assistance.  This is a major socialist grab from hard-working taxpayers that negatively impacts the free market in rental housing costs.
7. HH allows for hundreds of millions of dollars to be transferred to the State Education Fund from revenue retained under the Proposition HH cap.

Denver Post  Editorial Don't be Fooled

Gazette Opinion Mike Rosen Trojan Horse

Gazette Opinion 2 Bait and Switch

Gazette Opinion 2  The REAL agenda behind HH

II Retain Nicotine Tax Revenues

VOTE NO ON PROPOSITION  L L

Let's keep Government's hands out of our pocket.

IN 2020, Taxpayers approved tax rates on tobacco and nicotine products.  The estimated income from the sales of these products exceeded the estimate by $23.65 million. NOW the state wants to use that to pay for the "FREE" pre-school programs with those funds.  

MORAL statement:  The Pre-K program is one more school program that is lessening the important traditional  role of the mother reducing time she can spend nurturing her child.  As Karl Marx was quoted: "The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without their mother's care shall be in state educations" Are we ready to encourage the mothers to give up their children at the early age of four so that they can receive government indoctrination beginning at that early age?  The Colorado's Democrat Speaker of the House, Julie McCluskie thinks so.

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El Paso County Ballot Issues

City of Colorado Springs Ballot 2A

Vote NO on 2A

It seems as if at every election cycle, voters are asked for excess funds to pay for roads, police and fire department issues. Why?  It's because they are the most emotional issues that resonate with voters when, in fact, they should be among governments' first priorities.  With the growing population in the city, more focus should be applied to having the developers pick up funds for police and fire protection and facilities.  Until there is more attention to proper budgeting priorities, maybe taxpayers should hold their votes. Prioritizing never seriously happens until government has less taxpayer funds than it wants.

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School District Ballot Issues

Before voting for increased taxes to support the public school system, consider these issues:

1.  Is the district really needing more funding for qualified teachers, or are they losing qualified teachers because traditional academics seem to be given less attention than Social, Emotional Learning, Pronouns, Gender-Affirming policies, Curriculum Transparency, Compressive Sex Education, Racial concerns, limitations on religious expression,  and hiding gender issues from parents?
2. Most districts have a low percentage meeting expectations.
3. Is the district meeting parent expectations of dealing with pornographic books in the school library.  Check this.  Also THIS Gazette Editorial. While this list is only for D20 schools, such books have found their way to public schools in other districts across the nation.
4. Read this before putting more money into K-12 school districts

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School Board-Candidate Elections

I have personally spent a minimum of three hours with many of these school board candidates, assessing their dedication to making significant, positive changes to the public school system struggling with a multitude of issues.  It is well past time for school board directors to focus on what parents expect to be taught to their children.  School board directors must understand that they are working for the parents who trust their children to the public school districts.

Academy D20: Amy Shandy; Derrick Wilburn

Canon City RE-1: Graceann Pittner; Matt Alexander; Tom Wenzl

Colorado Springs D11: Parth Melpakam; Jason Jorgenson; Thomas Carey; Jill Hafley

Cheyenne Mountain 12:  Do NOT vote for ANY of these candidates.  Unfortunately, they are all extremely liberal with no idea what needs corrected.  All refused to respond to the Church voter guide.  You can check this out.

Douglas County RE-1: Marie Sumnicht

Falcon D49: Deb Schmidt; Ginger Revord  Also see: https://d49guardians.com

Lewis_Palmer D38: Tom Olmstead

Pueblo 60: Dan Comden; Susan Pannunzio; Dr. Roger Wright

Widefield 3: Dave Boyd; Tina West

Woodland Park RE-2: Mick Bates; Dave Illingworth; Cassie Kimbrell

For collaboration as well as noted good candidates in other districts around Colorado, please check THIS .  It was compiled by Darcy Schoening, past president of Mothers for Liberty

Govenor Polis' twisted logic on Education

https://tinyurl.com/tgr9u6y
Link to article

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.