Tag: Campaign Finance
State Sen. Marble slapped with ethics complaint for oil/gas event
A Colorado state senator may have run afoul of ethics laws by allowing, as alleged in an ethics complaint, an oil and gas company...
A bill to close a dark-money loophole dies in Colorado
Mystery fliers about candidates in elections that don't say who paid for them will still be allowed in Colorado after a law supporters said...
In Colorado, lawmakers clash over a dark money loophole
During Colorado’s November legislative elections, mysterious fliers fluttered around the districts in some of the state’s most hotly contested races.
The anonymous glossy fliers lacked...
A dark money lawsuit, a colorful cast of characters, and Colorado’s...
It sounds like the beginning of a joke: A former GOP congressman, a Koch-connected talk radio host, a pastor who once conducted an exorcism...
Democratic lawmakers take on dark money in elections communications
Last year, at least four campaign fliers showed up in voters’ mailboxes in the Front Range that didn’t disclose who paid for the mailers....
US Supreme Court to Colorado think tank: Disclose your donors or...
The nation's highest court on Monday upheld a lower court’s money-in-politics ruling in a case out of Colorado that requires groups to disclose who...
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,...
GUEST POST: Fixing Colorado’s Broken Campaign Finance Enforcement System
A federal lawsuit is currently challenging Colorado’s unique system under which private citizens enforce campaign finance laws at their own expense in an administrative...
Follow the money from Tuesday’s primary: Winners, losers and Bob Beauprez
WINNERS:
— El Paso County Commissioner Darryl Glenn, who proved that two years of legwork — and visiting EVERY county in Colorado — could beat...