{"id":1219,"date":"2022-04-22T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yrn.pfg.mybluehost.me\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2024-03-24T14:21:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T20:21:11","slug":"press-conference-at-colorado-state-capitol-to-oppose-collective-bargaining-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottkjames.com\/website_d4298829\/2022\/04\/press-conference-at-colorado-state-capitol-to-oppose-collective-bargaining-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Conference at Colorado State Capitol to Oppose Collective Bargaining Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">Pending legislation mandating collective bargaining in counties could cost Weld County \u2013 subsequently, Weld County taxpayers \u2013 up to $30 million annually and all 64 Colorado counties \u2013 subsequently, all Colorado taxpayers \u2013 upward of $600 million annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I wrote a recent opinion piece on this issue on my website\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/yrn.pfg.mybluehost.me\/collective-bargaining-a-bad-deal-for-colorado-counties-and-taxpayers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a>. It appeared in the Greeley Tribune\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greeleytribune.com\/2022\/04\/22\/opinion-scott-james-collective-bargaining-a-bad-deal-for-colorado-counties-and-taxpayers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Today, I was pleased to organize a group of County Commissioners from across Colorado for a press conference at the State Capitol where we expressed our opposition to this unwanted and unneeded legislation that would severely hinder counties\u2019 ability to provide services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Read more about the collective bargaining legislation in Colorado Politics (subscription)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coloradopolitics.com\/education\/collective-bargaining-draft-bill-strips-out-all-public-sector-employees-except-for-county-workers\/article_65c0e71e-c1c9-11ec-a426-6fb2e6c8036c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Read Colorado Politics\u2019 coverage of our event\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coloradopolitics.com\/governor\/county-commissioners-speak-out-against-collective-bargaining-bill\/article_a88d122c-c262-11ec-828b-6b60ee29a3ce.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Watch the press conference below\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pending legislation mandating collective bargaining in counties could cost Weld County \u2013 subsequently, Weld County taxpayers \u2013 up to $30 million annually and all 64 Colorado counties \u2013 subsequently, all Colorado taxpayers \u2013 upward of $600 million annually. I wrote a recent opinion piece on this issue on my website\u00a0HERE. It appeared in the Greeley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,58,1],"tags":[59,63,60,61,62],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiscal","category-bully_pulpit","category-latest","tag-coleg","tag-coloradotaxpayers","tag-copolitics","tag-colorado-general-assembly","tag-sb22-230"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scottkjames.com\/website_d4298829\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/3F6A639B-DD15-4829-B19C-D05D22ACA666_1_105_c.jpeg?fit=769%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottkjames.com\/website_d4298829\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottkjames.com\/website_d4298829\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottkjames.com\/website_d4298829\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottkjames.com\/website_d4298829\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottkjames.com\/website_d4298829\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scottkjames.com\/website_d4298829\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"https:\/\/scottkjames.com\/website_d4298829\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottkjames.com\/website_d4298829\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottkjames.com\/website_d4298829\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottkjames.com\/website_d4298829\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottkjames.com\/website_d4298829\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}