After years of begging for more money and bitching when it was denied, Denver finally admits to finding $45 million in unnecessary spending on things like furniture that can instead fund their new base of voters from the borders.
These “newcomers” can’t vote this election. The thousands now calling Colorado home will have to wait until their asylum or other immigration claims are approved.
But when they can, we’re betting they vote for Mike Johnston’s mayoral reelection campaign!
Johnston assures voters they won’t even notice the cuts, an about face from when the mayor initially lashed out at taxpayers with punishing cutbacks they would surely notice, like closing parks and refusing to plant flowers.
The cuts no one will miss passed committee this week, and now heads to the full council for a vote.
But taxpayers aren’t off the hook yet.
Johnston wants to create a $90 million “newcomer program” for illegal immigrants and those waiting years and years and years to have their asylum claims heard by a court.
And it isn’t just Denver taxpayers who are getting stuck with the bills, but all Coloradans are having to pick up the tab for education costs.
Gov. Polis signed a bill Thursday sending $24 million to schools across the state to backpay for the influx of children of migrants for the current school year.
Denver schools complain they’re already about $20 million in the hole and will only see about $5 million of that money, which by their own estimate would only pay for about 450 of their 1,900 new students.
Or by our estimate, a few dozen administrators.