December 14, 2007 09:53 AM UTC

Jon Caldara Organizes Suit Against Colorado. Colorado Groans Collectively.

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• by: rennes

( – promoted by Colorado Pols)

On Thursday, Independence Institute President Jon Caldara announced that a lawsuit had been filed in Denver County against the Colorado Department of Education. The plaintiffs, who include the Mesa County Commissioners and sundry folks from around the state, allege that the Mill Levy Freeze provision of the 2007 School Finance Act is unconstitutional. They claim that the freeze creates more revenue for the state, and so it should have gone to the voters per TABOR.

Legal opinions from 2004 and 2007 maintain that the freeze is legit. Interesting to note is that the first round of legal opinions were requested by Republican Senator Norma Anderson, who sponsored the same measure in 2004 (although don’t remind the current batch of GOP legislators of that annoying detail).

You decide – is the state following neither the letter nor spirit of the law, or are Caldara & Friends wasting our time and tax dollars?  

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