TOWN SQUARE: Candidates to file finance reports today
Campaign finance reports are due today, and some Colorado candidiates spent Tuesday dialing for dollars so they can look good to voters and state regulators. (Click here to see previous reports. Reports filed today are expected to be up by the end of the week.)
Thrid-party gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo asked his followers to cough up $19,000 in the waning hours of August.
"My campaign must file our campaign finance report with the State by September 1st and we must show at least $175,000 raised," Tancredo wrote in an e-mail to supporters.
Tancredo also took some wide swipes at front-runner John Hickenlooper, a Democrat.
"Hickenlooper supports amnesty for illegal aliens and blatantly owned businesses that hired illegals," Tancredo wrote.
Hickenlooper's campaign denied the claims.
Other panhandling politicians Tuesday included state Treasurer Cary Kennedy.
"Cary needs your help now," Kennedy campaign manger Serena woods wrote in her plea for fast cash.
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MAES SAYS SECOND PLACE MAKES HIM A WINNER
Republican gubernatorial hopeful Dan Maes is proud of his second-place finish in a recent poll.
The Maes campaign issued a press release touting a poll that shows Maes eating Hickenlooper's dust but easily besting Tancredo for the silver medal.
“With a little more than two months to election day, it’s clear that this is quickly becoming a two-horse race,” wrote Maes, who trails Hickenlooper by eight points in the poll.
GET INVOLVED
This evening, the CEO of Memorial Health System will talk about what he thinks the best ownership model for the hospital system is. (Click here for a story about various options for the system).
Dr. Larry McEvoy will give a presentation to the Citizens’ Commission on Ownership and Governance of Memorial Health System about what he wants to see happen to the hospital system and how that vision would work financially.
The meeting begins at 5:30 p.m. at Westside Community Center, 1628 W. Bijou St. and is open to the public.
Also this evening, the Colorado Department of Transportation will host a public open house to discuss upcoming construction along U.S. Highway 24 in the Ute Pass area. CDOT will replace a 79-year-old bridge on eastbound U.S. 24 near Cascade. It also plans to work on rockfall issues up the pass.
The open house is scheduled 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Ute Pass Elementary School, 9230 Chipita Park Road, in Chipeta Park.
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