Colorado GOP threatens to throw teachers in jail for going on strike

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So many Repugs now want to talk vile just like Trump.



Colorado GOP threatens to throw teachers in jail for going on strike

https://shareblue.com/colorado-gop-jail-teachers-strike/
By
Eric Boehlert -
April 23, 2018



Republicans want to fine, fire, and lock up teachers who demand better school funding.

Teachers around the country are taking to the streets to protest poor pay and even worse funding for their classrooms. Republicans in Colorado are looking to lock them up for it.

Teacher pay in Colorado ranks 46th in the nation. Educators there will hold a walkout this Thursday and Friday to demand better. But Republican legislators are pushing a bill that would fire, fine, and potentially incarcerate any protesting teachers.

The bill, sponsored by state Sen. Bob Gardner and state Rep. Paul Lundeen, would “prohibit public school teacher strikes by authorizing school districts to seek an injunction from district court,” according to local reports.

Under the bill, “teachers could face not only fines but up to six months in county jail” for striking.

It’s just the latest in a series of botched and baffling Republican responses to the grassroots movement teachers are leading......................

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1. It's not so baffling

Anybody with a child has a personal relationship with a teacher and nobody likes seeing someone they have a relationship with getting screwed. If the repubs don't vote for raises for teachers they will be seen as the evil little shits they are. If they do vote for raises the evil little shits who backed them to get them into office will back someone else. They are desperate to make the whole thing go away.

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2. Sen. Bob Gardner sounds like a dirty trickster type

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Gardner

In 2004, Gardner worked on the campaign for a local ballot measure to increase taxes to support The Resource Exchange, a nonprofit serving people with developmental disabilities. During the campaign, he submitted, for anonymous publication in voter guides, statements opposing the tax increase including: "The families of people with mental retardation, [should] not expect the government to help," and "By funding programs to care for these children, we are encouraging irresponsibility." Others working on the campaign justified the statements as a campaign tactic designed to stir support for the tax measure

Eating their own

https://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/eating-their-own/Content?oid=1121124