Thursday, October 03, 2002

Stryker's $3 million donation is the largest political contribution in Colorado history. The group receiving the money -- the misnamed "English Plus" campaign -- promises to use every penny in attack ads to defeat the English immersion initiative. If truth-in-advertising laws applied, English Plus, made up mostly of bilingual teachers and Anglo liberals, would be renamed Spanish First. Their aim is to keep Hispanic youngsters in Spanish-dominant classrooms for a minimum of six to eight years.