March 22, 2006 09:00 AM UTC

Attorney General Won't Prosecute Trailhead Group

by: Colorado Pols

No surprise here — you don’t bite the hand that might feed your campaign later. From the Rocky Mountain News:

Attorney General John Suthers’ office on Tuesday declined to prosecute a Republican group for sending out mass, pre-recorded phone calls that Democrats have called slanderous and illegal.
The calls were paid for by the Trailhead Group, a political organization that GOP Gov. Bill Owens helped found last year.

The automated calls target several Democratic lawmakers, implying they broke or skirted the law because unidentified donors paid for mailings to their constituents…

…Colorado Democratic Party Chairwoman Pat Waak filed a complaint with the Republican attorney general. She and other Democrats say they think the calls violated a state law that “prohibits the knowing or reckless dissemination of a false statement designed to affect the vote on any issue.”

The attorney general’s office disagreed. “It is our opinion that the statements made by Trailhead which resulted in this complaint do not rise to the level of reckless disregard . . .,” Deputy Attorney General Jeanne Smith concluded.

The attorney general’s decision came on the same day Democrats on a liberal blog urged each other to support resolutions at their precinct causes Tuesday night urging Suthers to investigate the calls.

The liberal blog mentioned is SoapBlox Colorado.

Attorney General Won't Prosecute Trailhead Group

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