Colorado elections officials are scrambling to understand what impact a Supreme Court ruling Thursday will have on the state that permits corporations to spend unlimited money to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress.
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U.S. High Court OKs Corporate Political Cash In Elections
Posted on 22 January 2010.
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Romanoff Attacks Supreme Court Ruling as Blow to People Power
Posted on 21 January 2010.
Speaking on the steps of the U.S. Federal Appeals Court building here Thursday, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff blasted the Supreme Court’s ruling earlier in the day that set aside campaign finance laws limiting corporate spending in the elections process.
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Seawell’s Bounty: Gamel Gave Her $144K In Denver Schools’ Race
Posted on 19 January 2010.
Jaw-dropping amounts of money flowed into the 2009 Denver Public Schools’ board elections from would-be education reformers near and far while state and local labor unions united in a covert push to fight them.
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Ritter Will Decide Tuesday What To With His $2.2M Warchest
Posted on 18 January 2010.
Gov. Bill Ritter is expected to decide how to handle his campaign funds after meeting with staffers Tuesday.
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Poor Hickenlooper (And We Mean Poor)
Posted on 16 January 2010.
Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper’s war chest in his bid to be governor has zero dollars.
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Senate Candidate Romanoff Vows to Shun Corporate PAC Donations
Posted on 07 December 2009.
A handful of the corporations on Michael Bennet’s list — such as petroleum company Anadarko, communications company AT&T and health care company GlaxoSmithKline — also wrote checks to Romanoff when he served in the state House.
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Daily Camera: High Court Should ‘Send Amendment 54 Packing’
Posted on 04 December 2009.
Proponents can go back to the drawing board to come up with a campaign finance reform law that is not so overbroad and so punitive to so many people,” the newspaper editorializes.
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Amendment 54 Fight Heads To Supreme Court Tomorrow
Posted on 02 December 2009.
Is Amendment 54 a valid way to fight pay-to-play politics or an unconstitutionally overbroad limit on political speech? The state’s highest court will hear oral arguments tomorrow in a case that will resolve that controversy.
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Colo. Candidates, Committees Spent $2.2M In 2009′s 3rd Quarter
Posted on 28 November 2009.
Colorado campaigns and political committees spent more than $2.2 million during 2009′s third quarter, according to data released by the Colorado Secretary of State’s Election Division.
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Josh Penry: Running Or Not, I’ll Give Back What’s Left
Posted on 21 November 2009.
State Sen. Josh Penry, R-Grand Junction, will decide over the holidays whether to seek re-election to his state Senate seat after backing out of the campaign for the Republican nomination for governor.
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