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October 16, 2008
Sally S. Ho
The Denver Post
In the shadow of the Jewish high holiday season, Rabbi Joel Schwartzman of Congregation B'nai Chaim in Morrison gathered with faith leaders from across the state in support of Amendment 59.Called "Embracing the Common Good," the campaign has mobilized more than 2,500 Colorado congregations, including Catholics, Protestants, Muslims and Jews, to vote in favor of the amendment, which focuses on the creation of a savings account for public schools.
"If you're Jewish, you vote for this," Schwartzman said.
The measure would eliminate the constitutional requirement that revenues in excess of limits set in the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights be refunded to taxpayers, and it would repeal the requirement under Amendment 23, passed by voters in 2000, that education spending rise every year.
Meanwhile, it would take the excess revenue and place it in the state's education fund for public schools, putting 10 percent of it each year into a savings account for public schools.
Schwartzman was joined by more than a dozen other prominent religious leaders Wednesday at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Denver, among them A. Rahim Ali, an imam from the Northeast Denver Islamic Center.
"It ensures that the state saves money in good times and that our children are not disadvantaged in bad times," Ali said.
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