campaign finance
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Twenty new laws go into effect on Friday, including fentanyl, collective bargaining, state budget
Twenty new laws will go into effect on Friday, including three of the most significant bills to come out of the 2022 legislative session. The state budget: With the fiscal year starting anew on Friday, the state’s 2022-23 budget kicks in. The spending plan, which legislators passed via House Bill 1329, allocates $36.4 billion in tax and cash…
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Top 10 most expensive primary races for the Colorado legislature
Some of Colorado’s primary candidates are pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into securing seats on the state legislature – unusually big spending typically reserved for the general election. With less than two weeks remaining until the primary election on June 28, Colorado Politics analyzed the fundraising in each contested primary race for the state…
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Colorado lawmakers define ‘major purpose’ in campaign finance laws, clarify who must file reports
Yes – election bills in the Colorado General Assembly can sometimes be – although not often – bipartisan. Case in point is Senate Bill 237, which changes campaign finance laws pertaining to issue committees, which deal with ballot measures. Its sponsors in the Senate are the Majority and Minority Leaders, and its House sponsors are also…
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Governor signs bills on bicycles, campaign contributions
Gov. Jared Polis signed six bills on Wednesday, including measures seeking to end unlimited donations to school board candidates, allowing residents who lost homes in the December Boulder wildfires to keep their voter registration at their previous addresses, and permitting Colorado cyclists to ride through stop signs and red lights when it’s safe to do…
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Colorado’s limits on campaign contributions in federal judge’s hands
Litigants gave their final pitches on Thursday morning about whether a federal judge should immediately block Colorado’s constitutional limits on campaign contributions because they are so low as to violate the First Amendment. The plaintiffs, who are three current or former Republican candidates for office, contend that the current caps on how much individuals may…
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COVER STORY | Meet Kalyn Rose Heffernan, candidate for Denver mayor (AUDIO)
This is the fifth in a series of profiles of Denver mayoral candidates. Kalyn Rose Heffernan’s campaign for Denver mayor started out as an April Fool’s prank. It began when she and a group of friends posted a video on April 1, 2018. The video showed the friends carrying Heffernan in her wheelchair up the…
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COVER STORY | Meet Penfield Tate III, candidate for Denver mayor (AUDIO)
This is the third in a series of profiles of Denver mayoral candidates. Penfield Tate III said he started thinking about making a second bid for Denver mayor last year while traveling throughout the city in his job as a public finance lawyer. And no matter the neighborhood he was in or the income level…
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Campaign-ad disclosures would tighten under Colorado Senate bill
A first step toward tightening some of Colorado’s laws around campaign communications, which stalled two years ago in the state Senate, is now out of the Senate and on its way to the House. Senate Bill 68 is sponsored by Democratic Sen. Rachel Zenzinger of Arvada and Republican Sen. Jack Tate of Centennial, and backed…
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Last-minute spending’s strong in tight Colorado races
Although ballots have been in most Colorado voters’ hands for more than two weeks – and as of Tuesday, 801,385 had been returned – spending to sway those who haven’t wrapped up their votes yet shows no cooling off in the state’s hottest races. So which races are hot? Based on spending by the two…
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Campaign finance complaints target gun-rights group, unaffiliated backers
A campaign finance committee operated by Rocky Mountain Gun Owners has been hit with a complaint over failure to fully disclose information about its contributors. The complaint, filed Tuesday with Secretary of State Wayne Williams by Denver Democrat Jean Grattet, alleges the Loveland-based gun-rights advocacy group’s committee listed 13 contributions of $100 or more but…