Please join AFP – CO at Douglas County High School South Commons (2842 Front Street, Castle Rock Colorado 80104) in supporting open union negotiations at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday May 24th, 2012. Click here for agenda https://www.dcsdk12.org/opennegotiations/index.htm.
More then 1,000 professional union organizers are scheduled to arrive and intimate Douglas County School officials, educators and parents.

In recognition of the fact that underfunded, fiscally-unsustainable public employ retirement programs are driving all levels government toward bankruptcy, Americans for Prosperity-Colorado last week unveiled a new pledge it is asking elected officials and candidates for office to sign. The pledge not only asks signers to abstain from participating in such programs themselves, but it commits them to taking every action possible to protect taxpayers from future pension bailouts, by restoring such funds to financial sustainability and refraining from promising public employees pension benefits that aren’t fully funded and sustainable over the long run.

The pledge reads as follows:

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