$22.33 PER VOTE: Amendment 66 Backers Break the Bank

$22.33 PER VOTE: Amendment 66 Backers Break the Bank

The final numbers are in for the 2013 ballot initiatives and, surprise!, the pro-Amendment 66 campaign spent a ridiculous amount of money.  But, they raised less than what they hoped as some cited $12 million as a target.  They raised (and presumably spent nearly all)...

PeakFeed: Unions Try To Buy Douglas County School Board Race

After Barack Obama’s top Colorado political hand took the reigns of the union campaign in Douglas County, this week we learn who was picking up the tab – national unions. A reader writes in to note a recent IRS filing by the national Douglas County...
$22.33 PER VOTE: Amendment 66 Backers Break the Bank

FOLLOW THE MONEY: Initiative 22 Funders in the Spotlight

Yesterday, the special interest groups backing Initiative 22 (the billion dollar tax hike) sent out a self-congratulatory press release about the funding that they had scraped together for a marketing campaign to burden Colorado’s hard-working families with a union...