“We couldn’t escape that government control, we absolutely depended on it. I know firsthand what it’s like to buy groceries with a welfare card”–Lauren Bobert
AVON — Nicki Mills grew up in a small northern Minnesota town, working the food bank alongside her grandmother, mother and aunt and hanging out in the deer stand every
Ideally, the legislature would simply repeal Colorado’s badly outdated urban renewal statute, along with existing TIF authority.
Margaret Huron, the mother of one of the Collective Bargaining Team’s (CBT) negotiators representing the Steamboat Springs Education Association, was the deciding vote after much controversy surrounding her recusing herself from the same vote just a week earlier.
Both women amended their filings within two minutes of each other the day after they were due to say the money came from the Public Education Committee instead of CEA President Kerrie Dallman.
And Colorado Fair Share—which, according to its website, is invested in efforts to “Get big money out of politics”—kicked in one-third of the total amount donated to the committee with a $75,000 contribution.
The Colorado Education Association (CEA) donated $3,500 to two Steamboat Springs Board of Education candidates they hope will flip the reform tide in Steamboat Springs.
Every dollar the state spends backfilling diverted property taxes is a dollar that can’t be divided among all of the other school districts.
Simply put, they want someone else to pay. The URA/TIF in this context is essentially nothing more than a form of legally sanctioned crony capitalism.
