Do research on measures, beware of hidden agendas

Your vote is important, not just for you but for your friends, relatives and pets!

Coloradans, voting “yes” for Amendment 79 will preserve the right of women to access good healthcare.

Vote “no” on Amendment 80 and Propositions 128, 129, 130 and 131. They can cause more harm than good (partly because TABOR really limits our state budget).

Your vote for Democrats can save Medicare, Social Security, public schools, clean air and water!

With the help of the Biden and Harris Administration we have one of the best economies in the world!

Harris and her supporters look forward to building on that and bring more opportunities to all people. It is their dream to bring all children out of poverty and allow more seniors to stay in their homes with medical care there. They look forward to building more affordable homes and helping people buy their first homes. They plan to work with other countries for peace and prosperity world wide.

Do your research on state ballot initiatives to be aware of hidden agendas.

Vote for Harris and Walz to continue leading our country towards peace and prosperity for all people!

— Linda Schlake, Longmont

Vouchers could drain public school funding

Recently, a campaign supporting the Amendment 80 measure on the 2024 Colorado ballot sent a text that deceived voters by implying that Kevin Vick, President of the Colorado Education Association, supported Amendment 80. They identified him as being the President of the Colorado Teachers Union, and no such organization exists. CEA, representing nearly 40,000 educator members in Colorado, has a strong endorsement of a “no” vote on Amendment 80. As a matter of fact, it’s one of the main electoral goals of CEA to defeat this deceptive ballot issue.

Why is it deceptive? Amendment 80’s supporters say it puts school choice in the CO Constitution. Vick has stated, “Proponents of Amendment 80 have been working to mislead voters since this campaign started, claiming this measure is about protecting school choice — which Colorado parents have had for 30 years — when it’s really about opening the door to creating a voucher system.” Vouchers use public funds generated by the taxes we pay for families to put their children in private, often religious schools. We already have underfunded public schools in Colorado, thanks in large part to TABOR, and vouchers would further strain state budgets for public education.

Parents already have school choice in Colorado, something that’s been supported by political and educational leaders for 30 years. If a family wants their child to attend a private school or be home-schooled, they can do it. We don’t need Amendment 80, we can’t have vouchers draining public school state funding, and we certainly don’t need the deceptive practices, the lies and disinformation of the 80 campaign.

I taught public elementary school for 25 years in Colorado, and I’m a proud retired member of CEA. We need to soundly defeat 80. Vote “no” on Amendment 80.

— Kenneth Nova, Boulder

BVSD should reconsider firing of good teacher

I would urge BVSD to seriously reconsider the firing of Becky Roetto. I don’t know her, but she sounds like a dedicated teacher, who made a mistake on a certain day at the end of the school year which she owns up to. As a teacher in Boulder Valley for 33 years I know that teaching is a challenge and also very rewarding. I doubt seriously that high school kids that she taught were shocked by what she did or were damaged by it. With my first graders I would’ve deserved to have been fired. But this seems a bit of an extreme reaction to something that should probably be handled differently.

We need good teachers in this world, and she sounds like one. Please reconsider her firing.

— Linda Fewson, Boulder