Writing in the Rocky Mountain News, parent Renee Beauregard calls on opponents of Amendment 51 to come up with the money to fund basic services for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Colorado. The measure, which was defeated at the polls last week, would have raised the sales tax by a fraction of a percent to eliminate the state’s waiting list for services.

The defeat of Amendment 51 does not mean this enormous problem is going away. To those of you like Rep. Doug Bruce, Rep. Kevin Lundberg, Jon Caldara, Mark Hillman, and the anonymous anti-tax groups and others who said that Colorado simply needs to “reprioritize” where it spends its money and redirect funds to help these people, I am going to call upon you now. Because you believe that Colorado has this money somewhere, and because you made a concerted effort to help defeat Amendment 51 through your words, I look to you now to help find that money. Instead of just saying “no,” please begin to ask the question “how.”

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