Tag: Campaign Finance
GOP lawyer Ryan Call says he never advised Maes on finances
Tuesday, Ryan Call, legal counsel to the Colorado Republican Party, told the Colorado Independent that he has not reviewed gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes’ campaign...
Romanoff committed to primary battle: The announcement transcript
The Romanoff campaign has released the full text of his remarks today. They reflect his intention to run against Sen. Michael Bennet mostly by...
Romanoff eschews PAC money, explains surprising low-key campaign
DENVER-- Democratic U.S. Senate candidate and former Colorado Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff told a crowd of about 30 students closely gathered in the Senate Room at the Auraria Higher Education Campus Wednesday that he was trying to lead by example with his so-far low-key campaign. Earlier in the day his staff announced Romanoff would not be taking Political Action Committee contributions.
Energy issues could trip up Western Slope Dems in 2010
A mineral royalty rights meeting that turned ugly in Grand Junction earlier this month is just a small taste of what’s coming for local and state Democrats running for re-election in 2010 on Colorado’s Western Slope, according to one lawmaker.
Musgrave calls out gay, abortionist, gun-grabbing, socialist baby-killers
Not to be outdone by Joe-the-Plumber's recent rant about not letting "queers" near his children, former U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave has penned a fiery letter promoting her new gig at "Votes Have Consequences."
"We will spread the truth about their destructive agendas, drag down their approval ratings, force them to publicly defend socialism, authoritarian gun-grabbing, gay marriage, infanticide and everything else they vote for in Washington, and ultimately, on November 2, 2010, we will take their jobs away from them."
Political payback? Posting of McInnis 527 comment could be conservative GOP...
Former six-term Republican congressman Scott McInnis, who’s all but announced he intends to run for the governor’s office in 2010, may be getting some payback for taking on the conservative base of the state party just before the 2008 election.
Shires’ Taxpayers League fined $7,150 for GarCo race electioneering
A judge Wednesday fined a political advocacy group headed by GOP operative Scott Shires $7,150 for failing to file an electioneering communications report on $2,300 spent helping to successfully defeat a Democratic Garfield County commissioner candidate.
Campaign contributions up, despite economic downturn
As the nation’s economy mires in recession, most Americans are anticipating lower earnings by making do with less — but not those who call Capitol Hill home.
Shires-backed tax group admits to campaign-law violation in Garfield County
A political advocacy group headed by GOP operative Scott Shires confessed Monday to violating campaign finance laws by not filing an electioneering communications report last fall and possibly skewing a close commissioner’s race in gas-rich Garfield County.
Markey rakes in cash and good press
Freshman U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey raised a record-breaking ton of cash this quarter for her re-election in 2010.
And despite announcing his CD 4 candidacy to oppose her mere months after she was elected, University of Colorado Board of Regents Vice Chair Tom Lucero, a Republican, has been relatively invisible -- at least when he wasn't ducking impropriety charges on the stand in the Ward Churchill witch-hunt trial. Lucero's fund raising, like his record of experience, will surely be no match for Markey's.