americans for prosperity-colorado
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Campaign spending about to ramp up big-time for November election
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If you thought there was a lot of money spent on the primaries for statewide races, as the expression goes, “You ain’t seen nothing yet!” Tuesday before midnight is the next deadline for filing campaign finance reports for 69 independent expenditure committees backing legislative, gubernatorial and attorney general candidates. Then there are the candidate committees…
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Tamra Farah departs Americans for Prosperity-Colorado
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After nearly three years spent working at Americans for Prosperity’s Colorado operation, communications maven Tamra Farah is moving on. Farah, AFP-Colorado’s deputy state director, had been on leave since mid-March from the advocacy group, which is financed by conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch, while her husband, businessman and author Barry Farah, mounted a short-lived…
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The dinosaurs of the Douglas County School Board
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Innovation in education is happening across the United States, but unfortunately there are those who want to stand in the way of progress and cling to the past here in Colorado. And no one represents the past these days better than the Douglas County School Board, which recently voted to end a scholarship program that would have…
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Colorado’s public pension system is a disaster in the making
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Colorado’s public pension system, the Public Employees’ Retirement Association (PERA) is in serious trouble, and if it continues on this same track, just about everyone in the state will feel the pain. Of course, it’s not too late. Colorado could get this right. But only if it learns from the past and embraces a new way of giving public employees more control…
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Losers outnumber winners in Colorado Legislature’s brief special session on pot tax
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It’s safe to say no one is happy with the special legislative session that convened Monday and concluded Tuesday at the Colorado Capitol. Gov. John Hickenlooper has faced nearly unified opposition from Republican lawmakers since calling the special session in order to come up with a “simple fix” to a drafting error in complicated legislation…
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Advocacy juggernaut AFP rolls out the dough in DougCo pitch for school choice
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Promising “a well-rounded six-figure campaign,” pro-education reform behemoth Americans for Prosperity-Colorado announced it is launching a sweeping outreach effort to parents in the Douglas County School District, the state’s third-largest school system, to warn them “educational opportunity is in jeopardy.” The digital and direct-mail campaign, touted in a press release from the group this week, directs parents…
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Far more lawmakers get F’s than A’s on AFP-Colorado’s right-leaning report card
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Remember that high school teacher or college prof who was known as “an easy A”? The one you didn’t have to worry about too much around finals? No such luck for the 100 members of Colorado’s General Assembly – at least, not when it comes to the report card just issued on the lawmakers…
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A rally for tax reform aims to make the case for congressional action
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Stymied in its quest to repeal and replace (or maybe just reconfigure) Obamacare, the GOP Congress has been promising it next will train its sights on meaningful tax reform. And Americans for Prosperity-Colorado, the conservative advocacy juggernaut, stands ready to help build momentum. AFP-Colorado’s “‘No More, Uncle Sam,’ Tax Reform Rally,” scheduled for Tuesday, will…
