Politigab: McInnis sets up campaign committee
Scott McInnis, former congressman and
Colorado House member, has created a campaign committee in his bid for
governor.
The move means McInnis can now begin
raising funds. His first contribution came frm Harold Piper, a Rifle small
businessman, McInnis said in a news release.
The Grand Junction Republican said his
campaign website - www.ScottMcinnisForGovernor.com - launched this
week.
Sen. Mark Udall has opened a Colorado Springs office at
the Pikes Peak Regional Building Department, 2880 International
Circle.
Udall will pay Regional Building less than $1,000 a month for 550
square feet of space on the first floor, El Paso County Commission Chairman Jim
Bensberg said.
Bensberg, who serves on the Regional
Building Board of Directors, said the building was built with extra space. "We
always had a plan to rent space out," he said.
Colorado rated a "D" grade for financial
disclosure of state legislative members in a study by the Center for Public
Integrity, but the study got at least one thing
wrong.
It graded Colorado down for not charging less than 50
cents per page for public records. But that's not true. An amendment to state
law, advanced by former State Sen. Andy McElhaney and approved by the Legislature, limits the charge to 25 cents per
page.
Colorado ranked
28th among the 50 states, lower than its 25th placing in 2006 and 12 slots below
its 16th-place ranking in 1999.
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For more, go to The Gazette's Data Geek
blog, http://datageek.freedomblogging.com/, or the center's site,
http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/states_of_disclosure/
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