CO-04 (Special Election)
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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%↓
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
90%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
90%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
(R) Ron Hanks
40%
30%
20%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
30%↑
15%↑
10%↓
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Dave Williams
(R) Jeff Crank
50%↓
50%↑
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
90%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) Brittany Pettersen
85%↑
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Janak Joshi
60%↑
35%↓
30%↑
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
April 17, 2010 04:26 AM UTC
23 Comments
All the people that type in tiny font, line by line, will be fired. These proposals are bad for the economy.
Also, I would lose the suspense of waiting every quarter until Romanoff’s FEC reports come out. Where is the fun?
I would like to hear their side as to why they do it that way. There may be another reason. It is always good to hear both sides, IMHO.
Is there a legitimate concern with electronic filing and security of the numbers and names? From what I understand, the computer systems in DC are far far from being up to date.
Just wondering. I too would like to see who is giving what to whom and how much for all candidates.
As all the info is going to be publicly published. I think it’s an institutional dislike of having to file – they’re going to do it but they’re going to be as dickish as possible about it.
Presidential candidates and all candidates for all 435 House seats, as well as every PAC and every party committee all file electronically. Only Senate candidates are exempted.
Good work
I’m more concerned with what the contributions buy. I’m not convinced that money from DC has bought Sen. Michael Bennet, but I’m totally convinced that the insurance companies have bought the GOP, lock stock and barrel.
Electronic filing almost seems easier to me so I really can’t figure out why more politicians don’t take advantage of it. Why not just cut out the middle man, have a way to verify the info they file electronically and be done with it already?
But unfortunately as long as the Senate is recalcitrant about joining the the rest of the federal political world for a minimum level of transparency, it’s not an either/or but a both. They still have to file on paper with the Secretary of the Senate, but they can also file electronically at the same time with the Federal Election Commission.
Not talking about the Senate here, but the House–is the House mandated to do both? And why is the Senate exempt? What’s so special about them? Why is it optional for them? And why not save a couple hundred trees and just cut out the paper trail with the SofS? Sure the SoS could verify this stuff electronically.
Neither US House nor US Senate candidates report to the SoS.
Senators don’t file with the FEC, but with the Secretary of the Senate. The Secretary of the Senate then scans the reports, makes a crappy copy, and forwards it to the FEC.
No federal candidates file with the Secretary of State, that is correct. But Senate candidates do file with the Secretary of the Senate.
It was the acronym MOTR used that threw me.
The Senate exempted itself from the electronic filing requirement because the Senate does not like transparency. The Secretary of the Senate can’t collect reports electronically for two reasons–the Senators don’t like it (the main reason), and because the electronic filing law needs to be tweaked to allow the FEC to receive electronic reports from sources other than the candidates themselves (rather than forwarded by the Secretary of the Senate).
Senator Feingold has had a bill for years to rectify this, but for some reason it never seems to get calendared.
to the Democratic candidates? Buck, Norton and Wiens all have their issues with each other’s fundraising, and they all say they want to clean up Washington.
The only candidate keeping his bottom line numbers a secret is a Democrat (Romanoff), and the only candidate who has articulated a specific plan for how he or she wants to clean up Washington is also a Democrat (Bennet).
But I did note in the last paragraph that both parties are in the same boat of secrecy.
no way this will happen.
If the founders wanted electronic filing they would have put it in the Constitution.
If I’m not mistaken, the Colorado SOS requires candidates to file electronically unless or they have sought an exemption.
Is that correct?
I like the idea that the senate should file electronically.
Here’s a linkie:
http://www.elections.colorado….