[Zman516]

The real problem in Colorado, which the LA Times didn't mention, is that Amendment 23 was passed in 2000 by the idiot voters who were bamboozled by the huge amount of money poured into the campaign by the Teacher's Union. Amendment 23 forces the state to keep jacking up the amount of money spent on K thru 12 education, regardless of the revenues collected. That is the major factor in the shortages for other state funded programs.

Owens is caught between Amendment 23 and the reality of having to fund the rest of the state budget.

AMENDMENT 23 MUST BE REPEALED!!!!

[goldstategop]

If that sounds familiar to Californians its cause we have Proposition 98. I've never understood why education of all the programs in the world, should be exempt from normal budget processes.

("Denny Crane: Gun Control? For Communists. She's a liberal. Can't hunt.")