City Council candidates are taking greater advantage of the taxpayer-funded matching money by raising more small-dollar donations
campaign finance
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Denver mayoral candidates raised $5.3 million through February. Five candidates got 73% of that cash.
Kelly Brough leads the pack in fundraising, while Rep. Leslie Herod leads in spending. Outside political groups, meanwhile, have crossed the $1 million spending threshold.
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Colorado businesses, organizations and government entities spent nearly $56 million on federal lobbying in 2022
Spending increased 54% from 2018 to 2022 as Congress spent trillions of dollars responding to COVID-19
Posted inElection 2022
The biggest election 2022 spender in Colorado? Jared Polis — by a long shot.
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.
Posted inElection 2022
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.
Posted inOpinion Columns
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
Posted inElection 2022
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
Posted inElection 2022
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
Posted inElection 2022
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.
Posted inElection 2022
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.