As momentum gathered around the chorus of Colorado Republican leaders calling on political novice and gubernatorial nominee Dan Maes to drop out of the race, Secretary of State Bernie Buescher reported Friday that his office is completing the ballot…
Wall Street Journal columnist Stephen Moore reveled this weekend in the fact that he could “add Colorado to the list of states that are saying to ObamaCare: not here, thank you.” Moore reported that Colorado Secretary of State Bernie Buescher…
Secretary of State Bernie Buescher turned down a request filed on the behalf of Clear the Bench Colorado last week to write a new rule categorizing the group as an issue committee. Clear the Bench is presently registered as an issue committee but a complaint filed by government watchdog group Colorado Ethics Watch argued that the group is actually a political committee because it is advocating not for any single issue but rather against retaining Colorado Supreme Court justices. At stake is funding: Issue committees can collect unlimited sums from individual donors; political committee individual donations are capped at roughly $500. Ethics Watch argues that inviting unchecked money into judicial races invites corruption and goes against the will of the voters.
Colorado Secretary of State Bernie Buescher said that while he’s been excited to work on the nuts and bolts of the office, it was the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling that ignited his passion for ensuring the Colorado is a state for the people and not for the corporations.
Cary Kennedy said Monday night that she had led the state’s treasury through fiscally lean times in a way few states in the country had–positively. However, she noted running on a record she said was strong in fiscal responsibility and transparency may not be good enough in a state-wide race where opponents could personally finance there campaigns and in one case was drawing donation from 47 states as the cousin of George Bush.
DENVER – Secretary of State Bernie Buescher and Attorney General John Suthers Thursday announced they’re teaming up fight a new form of impersonation: business identity theft. Both officials explained the decade-old Secretary of State’s business filing system, which has no password or PIN protections, has been exploited criminals changing contact names of at least 25 companies in Colorado, allowing the perpetrators to create and use those companies’ lines of credit and steal more than $750,000.
DENVER – Secretary of State Bernie Buescher Thursday issued a statement in response to “speculation related to the gubernatorial candidates running in the Republican primary.” That speculation stems from reports that elements of the Colorado Republican Party are trying…
Despite claims by Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis on his facebook page that he’s staying in the race in the wake of plagiarism allegations, the Colorado Democratic Party Thursday was gunning hard for his primary opponent, Evergreen businessman…
Widely seen as the front-runner for the GOP nomination for Colorado state treasurer, J.J. Ament has fallen badly behind Walker Stapleton in fund raising. As of the end of June, Stapleton had amassed more than $226,000 in cash to spend…
Clear the Bench, a group campaigning to replace Colorado Supreme Court Justices, took what looks like bad advice from Secretary of State staffers last spring when it decided to file with the state as an issue committee rather than as a political action committee. The distinction may sound esoteric but it’s exactly the distinction Colorado citizens voted into place in 2004 with Amendment 27 because they believed it could head off the kind of corruption that can swing legal rulings that affect everyday issues– the safety of drinking water, for example, the outlines of labor rights, the frequency of tax hikes.
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