Polis spent more than $12 million to win a second term as governor. The next biggest spender was Total Wine & More, which spent slightly less on a ballot measure.
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Race between Lauren Boebert, Adam Frisch was most expensive 2022 Colorado congressional contest per vote cast
Boebert spent nearly $43 per vote, while Frisch spent $32. That’s more than the $16 per vote Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet spent successfully defending his seat against Republican Joe O’Dea, who spent $9 per vote.
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Zornio: Should political candidates use campaign funds to pay themselves a salary?
Normalizing candidate salaries could help to equalize the political playing field, but not without caveats
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Gov. Jared Polis tops Weld County rancher Steve Wells as Colorado’s biggest 2022 campaign donor — so far
Colorado Democratic Party giving to legislative and statewide candidates, while Republican Party expects to pick up spending in coming weeks
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Republican outside groups are outspending their Democratic counterparts in Colorado’s state-level races
A look at how Colorado campaign cash stacks up for statewide, legislative contests through Sept. 14
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Meet the Colorado rancher spending $11 million — and counting — to prevent Jared Polis from winning reelection
Rancher Steve Wells is hoping to defeat Democrats in November by spending a portion of the fortune grown from allowing oil and gas drilling on his 40,000-acre spread in Weld County.
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Big-money groups remain on the sidelines as national eyes turn toward Colorado’s U.S. Senate race
Spending by groups like the NRSC and DSCC is typically a telltale sign that a race is competitive. So far, neither has invested much in the contest between Michael Bennet and Joe O’Dea.
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Coloradans are contributing lots of money to Liz Cheney in the Republican U.S. House primary in Wyoming
Colorado money is flowing into the closely watched Republican U.S. House primary next week in Wyoming between U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney and her Trump-backed challenger, Harriet Hageman. And some of the GOP’s most prominent donors are split in their support, mirroring the party’s Colorado split between those aligned with former President Donald Trump and those […]
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Democrats fund ads boosting controversial GOP candidates in critical Colorado primaries
Groups linked to Democrats appear to be trying to use pricey television ads and mailers to boost the profiles of three conservative — and controversial — candidates in Colorado running in important Republican primaries this year. The effort seems to be aimed at giving Democrats a leg up in the general election. It’s not the first […]
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Where’s Don Coram? Lauren Boebert’s GOP challenger says his late start is all part of the plan.
Don Coram has been training race horses for much of his life and has a succinct formula for what it takes to get across the finish line first: “You train to win. And you win the race at the end.” Ditto for his own political race. Coram is coming out of the gate late. Just […]