CO-SEN: How mysterious super PACs and 'redboxing' are influencing Colorado's Democratic primaries
A political action committee whose donors won’t be disclosed until after Colorado’s June 30 primary spent $300,000 last week to aid incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper, who faces a primary challenge from state Sen. Julie Gonzales.
Common Sense Action Fund, a so-called super PAC that can raise and spend unlimited sums of money from individuals, corporations and nonprofits, was registered in late November, just before Gonzales made her rumored Senate candidacy official.
As of its most recent Federal Election Commission filing in April, Common Sense Action Fund had raised just $7,000 from three donors: former Democratic state Rep. Edie Hooton, former U.S. attorney and Hickenlooper adviser Cole Finegan, and Broomfield resident John Bass. But the super PAC last week spent much more than that — $11,500 on website and media production and $288,500 on digital advertising — to boost Hickenlooper’s candidacy.
It disclosed those expenditures in an itemized notice to the FEC on June 18, as required by federal law. But the super PAC is not required to report its fundraising since April 1 until the next quarterly filing on July 15 — two weeks after the outcome of the Hickenlooper-Gonzales race is decided.
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