campaign reform
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NOONAN: 61 independent expenditure committees plan to spend in 2018 — and hide their donors
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Active independent expenditure committees, aka political action committees (PACs), currently number 61 registered at the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office. These committees collect money to support candidates. The sources of the funds are undeclared, so only the total amount of donations shows in Secretary of State’s Office forms. These PACS do not coordinate with candidates.…
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Public funding for Denver’s political campaigns? Not this year
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Denverite’s Erica Meltzer reports that Denver residents once again won’t get to vote on a wide-ranging campaign-reform proposal that, among other features, would have introduced public funding for campaigns. When all the tallying was done at the Denver Clerk and Recorder’s Office, the ballot initiative and petition drive by the group Clean Slate Now had…
