Complaint accuses Rep. Weinberg of misusing campaign funds for gifts, apparel, travel
A campaign finance complaint has been filed by state Rep. Brandi Bradley, R-Roxborough Park, against fellow House member, Rep. Ron Weinberg, R-Loveland, over contributions she says violate state campaign finance laws. Most notably, Weinberg, according to his TRACER account, contributed $1,955 on Sept. 24, 2024, to the Maccabi Tel Aviv football (soccer) club of Israel. […]


A campaign finance complaint has been filed by state Rep. Brandi Bradley, R-Roxborough Park, against fellow House member, Rep. Ron Weinberg, R-Loveland, over contributions she says violate state campaign finance laws.
Most notably, Weinberg, according to his TRACER account, contributed $1,955 on Sept. 24, 2024, to the Maccabi Tel Aviv football (soccer) club of Israel.
The contribution is listed as a gift to the club.
Bradley’s complaint also identified 16 times in 2024 when Weinberg spent campaign dollars at the Springs Barbershop in Loveland. The expenditures, which totaled more than $1,000 and which ranged from $45 to $80, covered apparel, “other office expense,” dues and subscriptions, “other event expense,” “other promotional expense,” or cleaning service.
Bradley wrote in her complaint that the gift to the football club may have violated federal as well as state law.
Other contributions that may have run afoul of campaign finance laws, according to Bradley: $2,533.39 to the University Club of Denver in 2024 and 2025, ranging from $26.08 to $678.54, listed as “other meeting expense.”
Two expenditures for Jos A. Bank clothiers in 2024, for a total of $533.02 for apparel.
An expenditure of $673.62 at the Brown Palace on May 9, 2025, the last day of the 2025 session.
A payment to George Gintoli, who heads the Loveland Sertoma Club for $930, listed as “other event expense,” on July 23, 2024.
This list also included $302 in subscriptions and dues to the Loveland Rotary Club on March 11, 2025.
Two donations totaling $720 to the Salvation Army, one in 2023 and another last year.
The complaint states that $396.23 to Serious Cigars of New Jersey, which says it is a premium cigar company, for “gifts and donations.”
An expenditure of $240 in 2024 for apparel to “Trump It Up,” with no listing of the address or other required information. A Google search showed a board game with that name, but no apparel company.
There were 32 items with no vendor listing, ranging from $1 to $41.01, listed as either meals, event food and beverage, office expense, or communications expense.
Campaign finance laws require itemized expenditures of $20 or more to include the name and address of the payee and the purpose of the spending. Of the 32 listed in the complaint, three are $20 or more.
Bradley also listed payments to WinRed, which raises money for Republican candidates. Since 2020, WinRed has been paid more than $87,0000 to raise funds for dozens of Republican candidates, including candidates for the General Assembly.
Three payments to Monarch Casino of Blackhawk in 2023 and 2024, totaling $749.64, listed as expenses for meals and lodging. That expenditure was all in 2023, and Weinberg made a fourth payment, also in 2023, for a total of $752.64.
Weinberg has been at the center of attention for several weeks, first over a contest with Bradley for the assistant minority leader of the House post. Weinberg dropped out before the caucus vote last month that instead picked Rep. Carlos Barron of Fort Lupton.
Bradley later accused Weinberg of using a master key at the Capitol to access Capitol offices, as reported by 9News on July 29. Rep. Stephanie Luck of Penrose accused Weinberg last January of using a master key to access her office to turn on a light switch. Luck complained to House Speaker Julie McCluskie, who wrote that there was “no evidence to refute Weinberg’s account,” although if he had a master key he had to turn it in immediately.
The doors to McCluskie’s outer office and seven Capitol offices, including Luck and the House Minority Office, were rekeyed after that.
Bradley also filed a complaint against Weinberg with McCluskie, which is tied to complaints from women who said Weinberg had sexually harassed them. At the same time, he was chair of the Larimer County Republican Party.
Weinberg did not respons to a Colorado Politics’ call for comment.
