The campaign that is seeking to raise income taxes by a billion dollars a year spent $777,000 on a Washington, DC-based firm that was only able to garner a 56% validity rate for the signatures they gathered.
According to Ed News Colorado, the latest campaign finance reports show the group Colorado Commits to Kids has now spent at least $777,894 with the DC firm Fieldworks. Last month, when the group turned in signatures gathered by Fieldworks, a 5% random sample was reviewed by the Secretary of State’s office, which found a pathetic 56% validity rate for the signatures.
If that validity rate stays constant across all the signatures turned in, that means Colorado Commits to Kids spent over $330,000 on invalid signatures.
Bang up job, Curtis Hubbard.
As a brief reminder, the signature gathering operation run by three Pueblo plumbers in the recall of Senator Angela Giron had a 94% validity rate, and unlike Hubbard’s group, they couldn’t collect signatures statewide. (And the Pueblo recall signature gathering operation was 100% volunteers)
UPDATE: After a line-by-line review of all the signatures gathered by Fieldworks and Colorado Commits to Kids, the Secretary of State’s office finds a truly awful 54% validity rate:
What is an extra billion going to do? CO can't seem to successfully manage the $$$$ they already have! According to the recent 5280 "Deans List" article…. historically, the districts paid 70% of their own expenses (based on median incomes. prop. values, etc.) while the state kicked in the other 30%. Today it's the opposite. Let's get OFF the "Nanny State" mentality! Let's get Big Gov't and Unions OUT of the "business" of education so these teachers can do their jobs!!!
But sadly, still enough to make the ballot. Which makes it money well spent by the NEA plutocrats rubbing their hands eagerly to loot more of our money for even poorer results in the classroom.