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Colorado campus free speech bill scores full House support
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Colorado’s campus free speech bill on Tuesday won a unanimous 64-0 vote on the state House floor. It was another triumph of bipartisan support for a bill that was early linked in the minds of lawmakers to contentious conservative cable-news narratives but that broke increasingly free with each committee and floor debate to be embraced…
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Colorado campus free speech bill went off to House with broad bipartisan support
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State Sen. Tim Neville, a Littleton Republican, was determined to send his hot-button campus free speech bill to the lower chamber with strong support from Democrats as well as Republicans – and he succeeded. Senate Bill 62 is a response to the war around expression being waged largely by conservative media outlets who think speech…
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Here it’s a ‘campus free speech bill’; there it’s a ‘Milo bill,’ of course
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In Colorado, sponsors call the legislative proposal a “campus free speech bill.” Sponsors in Tennessee call their version the “Milo Bill,” after Milo Yiannopoulos, the right-wing provocateur and Breitbart News editor, whose deliberately offensive college speaking appearances have often generated protest and occasionally violence. Colorado’s Senate Bill 62 is being sponsored by libertarian-conservative Tim Neville,…
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Neville campus free speech bill wins surprise unanimous committee support
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The debate over student free speech, campus safe zones and political correctness moved into the Colorado Capitol on Thursday and took a surprise turn when three Democrats joined with four Republicans on the Senate education committee to unanimously advance a campus free speech bill sponsored by arch conservative-libertarian Sen. Tim Neville. “Elected officials have a…