With just over a week to go before Election Day, the dirty-tricks side of campaigning has grown to a dull (and maybe not so dull) roar.

We’ve already seen plenty of deceptive mailers (Protect Colorado, looking at you and your Amendment 74 committee) along with TV advertising that just flat-out lies about candidates from both parties.

The mailer shown here is one that stands out. It was sent out by the campaign of Republican Tony Sanchez of Littleton, who is running against Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen of Lakewood for the open Senate District 22 seat.

It’s not common for campaigns to send out mailers like this; they usually leave them to independent expenditure committees (IECs) that aren’t supposed to coordinate with a candidate’s campaign. The Senate Majority Fund and the state GOP IECs have been sending anti-Pettersen mailers for the last two months. So far, more than 40 mailers from both sides have hit the central Jefferson County district.

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If you know anything about Pettersen, you know her life story is heavily focused on her struggles with her mother, who spent 30 years as an opioid addict but is now in recovery. Fighting drug addiction has been Pettersen’s passion.

Both a press release from Sanchez on Thursday and the mailer claimed that Pettersen sponsored a bill on heroin injection sites and that a vote for Pettersen would mean people shooting up on Lakewood city streets.

That bill, SB40, came out of a 2017 interim committee that Pettersen chaired. The bill’s prime sponsors were Republican Sen. Kent Lambert of Colorado Springs and unaffiliated Sen. Cheri Jahn of Wheat Ridge, although Pettersen, as a member of the committee, was listed as a co-sponsor.

Pettersen never even had a chance to vote on SB40, because the bill died in the Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee before it reached the House.

But the claims that people would be shooting up heroin in Lakewood neighborhoods if they voted for Pettersen offended some, who said the mailer crossed the line.

The mailer prompted a response from Gov. John Hickenlooper, who made a video for Pettersen’s Facebook page condemning it. “Do not believe the lies and nonsense these people are trying to peddle,” Hickenlooper said.

Next on the list: If you’re gay and Jewish, what are the chances you’re in favor of Muslim Sharia law?

Apparently, Save Our State, a Republican IEC, believes Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, who is both gay and Jewish, will implement Sharia law in Colorado schools if elected governor. The ad is currently making the rounds on social media.

The anti-Polis committee’s largest individual donor to date is former Republican gubernatorial and U.S. Senate candidate Robert Blaha, at $10,000 as of Oct. 25. The committee also took in a $30,000 donation from Kaycee LLC of Colorado Springs, which is owned by Republican donor Donna Erickson.

No explanation on either the committee’s Facebook page or website on just exactly how Polis would enact Sharia law, but Capitol M is sufficiently fascinated with this ad and would like to know how he would do that.

Then there’s the Facebook ad targeting Republican Rep. Alexander “Skinny” Winkler of Northglenn, who’ s hoping to be the first Republican in decades to hold the House District 34 seat for more than 42 days.

Winkler was selected by a GOP vacancy committee last March to replace former Rep. Steve Lebsock, who was booted out of the General Assembly and, in the waning moments of his years as a lawmaker, changed his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican. You know the story. Do I have to repeat it again?

Winkler was invited to speak at a Sept. 15 rally, sponsored by Major League Liberty, that lambasted Facebook over allegedly censoring conservative thought. The co-founder of MLL goes by the name of Louie Huey, who hosts a Sunday night podcast on a variety of conservative topics.

Recent posts on MLL’s Facebook page claim, without evidence, that the bombs sent to Trump critics were devised by Democrats or that someone else other than the alleged bomber plastered his van with pro-Trump and anti-liberal bumper stickers.

The page also claims that Michelle Obama is really a man. “Democrats are so desperate to win an election that they have to mail bombs to each other. What a time to be alive,” Huey wrote Thursday.

Among those who showed up for the rally: Members of Proud Boys, labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The ad states the rally was sponsored by Proud Boys, which Huey has been associated with, but even an article by the left-wing Colorado Times Recorder retracted an earlier statement that made that claim.

Winkler spoke at the rally and provided sound equipment (that’s what he does for a living, and sometimes people get invited to speak at events for that reason). For speaking at the rally, which Winkler said was about Internet censorship, he got labeled a white supremacist by association on a Facebook ad that ran for two weeks in October from Our Colorado Values, the IEC that works to elect Democrats to the state House.

That’s not who he is, Winkler told Capitol M. He was at first angry, but then decided his best reaction “was to laugh it off. People of HD34 are far too smart to believe this nonsense.” It shows “desperation from those who think differently than I do. These kinds of ads sometimes backfire.”

It’s not the only ad Winkler called ridiculous – another one from Our Colorado Values claimed that because he believes in free markets, it means he doesn’t want pre-existing conditions to be covered. It featured a photo of a woman dying of cancer.