You’ve seen them funny. You’ve seen them serious. Now Colorado Senate Republicans are tugging at your soft side for charter schools in their latest YouTube channel video.

The video starring Sens. Kevin Priola, Bob Gardner and Owen Hill is first in a series called “GOP for You.”

There was a lot to learn in two and a half minutes.

One of Priola’s daughters doesn’t want to be a princess. She wants to be a state senator. Look, with some of the legislation that comes though the Capitol, she’s still going to kiss a lot of frogs.

Hill gets ribbed for an unusual reason.

“Folks give me a hard time around the Capitol for being big on education,” the Education Committee chairman says in the video.

That tells you there are lot of uncreative jerks around the Capitol.

Charter schools are tuition-free public schools, but they are organized by parents or leaders in a community with a charter from a local school board. Charter schools have more autonomy on curriculum and operations. Colorado has 226 charter schools with more than 108,000 students.

How tax money is divided between traditional public schools and charter schools is a thorny political issue. Wednesday afternoon, Hill and Democratic Sen. Angela Williams will present  Senate Bill 61 to the Senate Education Committee to re-slice the fiscal pie on a per-student basis.

The bill is likely to get out of the Senate, and face a tough time in the House against its Democrat-led majority and against teachers unions that oppose school choice.

Hill said in the video he loves school choice.

“My kids are different,” he said. “My friends and their kids are all very different. Everyone needs their own experience.

“Making sure we have good options for every single one of our children, to me, is one of the best things we can do.”

Gardner, the founder of Cheyenne Mountain Charter Academy in Colorado Springs, said it wasn’t the elite families who sought to enroll students there.

“Many times these were minorities and parents who could not afford a private school and the charter school was the choice for them to get a better education for their students.”