Yeah, Let's Make THIS GUY Our State Treasurer

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by: Colorado Pols

Nic Morse, apparently

“What’s Nic Morse going to do next?” said no-one ever.

Nevertheless, here’s Joey Bunch reporting for ColoradoPolitics.com:

The calendar hasn’t yet closed on 2016, but increasingly the politics are turning to 2018, as Republican Nicholas Morse of Fort Collins tells me he’s thinking about running for state treasurer…

…“I wanted to put out a quick statement saying I have been asked to consider running for the state treasurer position in 2018,” he said. “It is a position that I am interested in and something that I am going to put some considerable thought towards over the next six months.”

Morse reportedly was urged by President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign staff in Colorado to get in the race. [Pols emphasis]

Reportedly? According to who — Nic Morse?

If you’re not familiar with ~~Norse~~ Morse, and you shouldn’t be, he’s the Republican candidate who just barely avoided losing to Rep. Jared Polis by 20 points in 2016 (Morse came within 19.2 points of beating Polis!)

But nevermind all of that. The real star of this story is Morse’s campaign finance report. According to FEC data through October 19, Morse “raised” $163k in his race for Congress in CD-2, of which $114k is listed under “candidate contributions.” When you take a closer look at the report, however, you find this:

Image from Nic Morse campaign finance report (FEC).

Whoa…$112,500 for a website??? That’s a tad excessive. For $112,500, his website had better be able to control the International Space Station.

Anyhoo, Nic Morse for Treasurer. Or whatever.

5 thoughts on “Yeah, Let’s Make THIS GUY Our State Treasurer”

Pseudonymous says:

December 8, 2016 at 3:34 pm

You guys have no idea what it takes to create a website of this caliber. Fitting half an elephant into the "O" in "CO" must have cost 20 to 30 grand alone!

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1. ajb says:
  
  December 8, 2016 at 4:19 pm
  
  It's a fabulous website, the best website ever made! It's got gorgeous graphics and a huuuuge font and it fills the monitor. You really have to see it, folks. Only a smart person could have created this. A very smart person. And I oughta know. I've seen some very smart people and Nic Morose is smart.
  
  No wonder the Donald tapped him.
  
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PKolbenschlag says:

December 8, 2016 at 6:40 pm

I want to be his Web consultant. I can sort of do WordPress.

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1. Colorado Pols says:
  
  December 9, 2016 at 9:04 am
  
  You'd have to do it for free, though. This is a completely invented expense.
  
  But you could still tell people that it was really expensive.
  
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JohnInDenver says:

December 9, 2016 at 8:31 am

I like the idea of "no alternate vendor." Nobody else would do it that way. Nobody else was willing to make the work an "in-kind" campaign contribution.

And what sort of firm is Sws Polifi, LLC, doing accounting and allowing this sort of extravagant report?

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