August 30, 2010 06:11 PM UTC

Buck on Parade: Woman shouts don't take money from education

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• by: CoalCreekWildfire

(And remember, folks, even this is a “Buckpedal” from his original position–“Buck said that the Department of Education and National Endowment of the Arts could be scratched pronto.” – promoted by Colorado Pols)

I decided to follow Ken Buck as he walked in the Colorado State Fair parade on Saturday. It was a hot and sunny day and I estimate there were three thousand people along the two mile route in downtown Pueblo.

Ken shook hands with three hundred people or so, all smiling. One woman wasn’t smiling as she shouted that Ken wanted to “take money away from education.”

He does, in a way:

DH: Your GOP opponent has set [sic], ‘Let’s abolish the Department of Education.’ It sounds like you’re not going that far.

Buck: I’m not willing to turn the lights off on Day One… At some point, if we don’t need to spend federal money on education, that would be great…

Colorado keeps getting the short end of the stick:

1) We rank 47th out of 52 in Stimulus Bill spending on education ($234.23 per person)

2) We rank 41st out of 50 in Federal spending generally (81¢ for every $1.00 sent to Washington)

Where are Bennet and Udall? If they can’t do better than this we might as well cut spending (and keep our money in Colorado).

Colorado will have more money to spend on schools when we cut out an expensive middleman: the US Department of Education.

Joe Hanel, Q&A with Ken Buck, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, Durango Herald Denver Bureau, 7/17/2010 22:45, https://durangoherald.com/secti…

Stimulus spending by state, WSJ.com, 8/6/2010, https://online.wsj.com/public/r…

Colorado Federal Taxes Paid vs. Federal Spending Received, 1981 to Present, Tax Foundation, https://www.taxfoundation.org/f…