"There's no question, it hurts community colleges, and by extension, hurts community college students," said Lt. Gov. Joe Garcia, who also wears the executive director's hat for the Colorado Department of Higher Education. Casino interests formed an issue committee, Coloradans for Community Colleges, and pumped about $7.6 million into promoting the amendment's passage, according to campaign finance records from the Colorado Secretary of State's Office. Coloradans for Community Colleges circulated mailers and ran a television advertisement featuring scenes from campuses that billed Amendment 50 as "a vote that helps us all," because it stood to provide colleges "a dramatic funding increase." Amendment 50 was never intended to solve the funding problem at community colleges, and it certainly hasn't, Garcia said. [...] the state identifies a steady, reliable funding source for community colleges or increases their direct support, Garcia frets that they'll be mired in the same financial rut.
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