AUBURN — A Colorado woman who fought against that state’s TABOR (taxpayer bill of rights) law will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1, at the Auburn Public Library.

Kristi Hargrove will discuss her experience fighting TABOR, which was passed by Colorado voters in 1992 and amended in 2000 and 2005, loosening some of the law’s restrictions.

TABOR aims at reducing government spending by linking the growth of tax revenues to the growth of population and inflation. Exceptions are allowed through referendum. In Maine, a TABOR initiative was defeated by voters in 2006. Another TABOR initiative will come before Maine voters this fall.

Hargrove is a Republican, a small business owner and PTA leader from Crested Butte, Colo., who, with her husband, runs a general contracting business. She says she became involved in the fight against TABOR when she saw the impact the law was having on her children’s schools. She participated in the passage of a local effort to help defray the losses from the state budget reductions caused by TABOR and then became involved in local and state educational efforts against TABOR.

She is currently the treasurer of her local PTA, director of leadership for the Colorado State PTA and chair of the District Advisory Accountability Committee for her school district.