Messenger: Colorado Citizens for Accountable Government

Candidate: Paula Dickerson

Contest: Senate District 25

Affiliation: D

Date delivered: Oct. 21, 2020

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Message type: mailer

Message tone: negative

About the message:

This mailer from super PAC Colorado Citizens for Accountable Government says Democratic candidate Paula Dickerson filed for bankruptcy after buying a new car costing nearly $39,000. Dickerson, an educator, faces incumbent GOP Sen. Kevin Priola in an Adams County seat considered a swing district.

About the messenger:

Colorado Citizens for Accountable Government is an independent spending group, likely related to the 527 of the same name. That group aired ads and sent mailers deemed false by fact-checkers in the 2016 Senate campaign.

The messenger's money:

The group is funded by a nonprofit of the same name. Because its donors aren't revealed, it's considered a dark money group.