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Two Denver legislators want limits on donations to school-board candidates

Two Denver lawmakers want to place campaign donation limits on school board candidates. Rep. Elizabeth McCann and Lois Court, both Democrats, say that even though school board members aren’t paid, too much money has been going into electing people to these nonpartisan offices in recent years. The two lawmakers said it makes little sense to allow unlimited campaign spending to boards with members that don’t get paid to serve. Their measure, HB1067, would limit individual ...

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Cash tallies in for school campaigns

Final campaign filings for the Nov. 1, 2011, election show a committee set up to support the failed School District 51 mill levy override collected a total of $50,548.50. A final campaign-committee filing made last month to the Colorado Secretary of State’s office shows Friends of School District 51 collected $1,575 in monetary donations in the final nine days of the campaign. The committee also reported $7,500 in nonmonetary contributions between Oct. 24 and Nov. 1. Six monetary ...

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Dist. 1 candidates stake positions on taxes, annexation, monument

The candidates vying to replace term-limited Mesa County Commissioner Craig Meis this fall began to distinguish themselves Wednesday on issues ranging from the future of Clifton and Fruitvale to the debate over whether Colorado National Monument should become a national park. All seven District 1 hopefuls — Republicans Wes D’Aponti, Christi Flynn, Ken Henry, John Justman and Ed Stephens and unaffiliated candidates Jana Gerow and John Leane — fielded roughly a dozen ...

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10 candidates vying for commission seats

Before Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann formally launched their bids, before mainstream America had heard of former businessman Herman Cain, Christi Flynn, Jana Gerow and Rose Pugliese were in. Not for the presidential race, but for Mesa County commissioner. The trio of women filed candidate affidavits and formed candidate committees with the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office in May, a year and a half before Grand Valley voters sit down at their kitchen ...

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Friends of District 51 reaches goal of raising $50,000 for 3B

Friends of School District 51, a campaign group supporting Referred Measure 3B, reached its goal of raising $50,000 by Election Day. A campaign finance report filed Friday with the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office revealed the committee had received $48,973.50 in contributions through Oct. 23. Friends of School District 51 member Cathy Story said the group collected the remaining amount needed to reach its goal this week. “We were able to do all of the activities we wanted ...

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Loma business owner, Fruita mayor latest to join race for Mesa County Commission

Loma rancher and small business owner Wes D’Aponti declared his candidacy for the Mesa County Commission on Thursday, portraying himself as a defender of agriculture and promoter of responsible energy development. Dressed in a cowboy hat and boots, jeans, a white dress shirt and a tie, D’Aponti spent about 15 minutes addressing a group of 15 family members, friends and supporters on the steps of the Mesa County Courthouse about his bid for the District 1 seat. The 58-year-old ...

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Friends of D51 are registered, ready for vote

A citizen group campaigning for a School District 51 mill levy override was pretty confident the district’s school board would decide Tuesday to place the override on November’s ballot. So confident were the members of Friends of School District 51 — the group consistently has at least eight members — they registered Friday with the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office as an issue committee. Friends of School District 51 member Duke Wortmann of Fruita said ...

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Congressional race under way with boasts about fundraising

The race is still a year and a half away, but that hasn’t stopped the two leading candidates for the 3rd Congressional District from already starting to raise funds for that contest. In his first month since jumping into the race, Democrat Sal Pace raised more than $100,000, according to Federal Election Commission reports filed on Friday. That compared with the $150,000 that the incumbent, U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, pulled in during the second quarter of this year. Although ...

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Tipton off to lukewarm start raising money

DENVER — Republican Rep. Scott Tipton appears to be starting slow raising money for his re-election. In campaign finance reports turned in last week, the 3rd District congressman reported raising less than $150,000 last quarter. That’s less than half raised by his fellow freshman, Colorado Republican Rep. Cory Gardner. A spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee says Tipton will have enough to defeat his Democratic challenger, state Rep. Sal Pace of Pueblo. ...

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Bachmann is favorite candidate in Mesa County GOP straw poll

A woman heads the list of preferences for the Republican nomination for the presidency among Mesa County loyalists. U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., garnered 18 votes, well short of a majority of votes cast at the party’s monthly luncheon Friday at Two Rivers Convention Center, but she was ahead of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who was the clear favorite of Mesa County Republicans four years ago. Romney got a dozen votes, just ahead of Atlanta businessman Herman Cain, ...

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