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Secretive lobbying group heads to Denver next week. Here’s what you...
Updated to add statement from Rep. Leslie Herod of Denver.
As a powerful organization backed by some of the nation's wealthiest conservative families prepares to...
Winners and losers in the money battle for your vote on...
Big Tobacco and Big Oil were the biggest players in Colorado’s ballot measures in 2016, writing checks for more than $36 million to influence...
Big tobacco stubs out cigarette tax
Colorado’s David and Goliath race is over. Goliath won.
Amendment 72 was called at 9 P.M Tuesday. It failed.
The measure would have revised...
The battle for the ballot (measures) isn’t over yet
The last state campaign finance reports before Election Day show that the fight isn’t over on many of the initiatives that will be decided...
Virginia-based tobacco giant on track to be the biggest spender in...
Big Tobacco may beat out the casino industry for a dubious distinction: biggest spender on a ballot measure in Colorado’s history.
Supporters of Amendment 72,...
Ugly independent political spending in Colorado tripled in the last election...
It will come as no surprise to Coloradans force-fed a fire-hose stream of ugly and untrustworthy campaign election material over the last two years that independent spending-- spending directly tied to no candidate and mostly free of accountability-- more than tripled in the state from 2008 to 2010. This according to a recent report released by watchdog group Follow the Money, which singles out Colorado for study. The authors report that, although the state has relatively strong disclosure laws, larger changes in campaign finance rules have let loose here as everywhere in the country a storm of money and a sea of roiling paperwork that can cover over as much as it reveals.