reason magazine
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The reward for unflattering coverage? How about a subpoena selfie?
He’s a layman who does his own lawyering for the many court claims he has filed. Though not a lobbyist, he isn’t shy about pestering pols at the Capitol to vote against a bill that could be bad for his business. So, you’d think Matt Arnold – possibly the most outspoken and in-your-face gadfly on Colorado’s political right – would leap at the…
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A GOP gadfly fights reform of a campaign law that many say has run amok
Not long ago, libertarian-leaning Reason magazine ran an expose of Colorado’s convoluted campaign-finance law and how it invites abuse by those who manipulate it to clobber – and silence – their political foes. We blogged on the article at the time, noting its focus on controversial Colorado political operative Matt Arnold and his business, Campaign Integrity Watchdog, as Exhibit A.…
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Latest complaint by GOP dissident draws skeptics, fuels doubts about campaign law
Matt Arnold is about as popular as Hillary Clinton in some Colorado Republican circles. Sure, he’s a member of the party himself, yet the maverick activist is responsible for filing more campaign-finance complaints than anyone else under Colorado’s 14-year-old law on the subject – and a whole lot of those efforts have been directed at his own tribe. The tally of court…