Messenger: Colorado Economic Leadership Fund

Candidate: Tim Neville

Contest: Senate District 16

Affiliation: R

Date delivered: Sept. 7, 2018

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Message type: mailer

Message tone: positive

About the message:

This positive mailer from nonprofit Colorado Economic Leadership Fund praises Republican state Sen. Tim Neville for preventing tax hikes, promoting transportation funding and funding for school security.

About the messenger:

The Colorado Economic Leadership Fund is a nonprofit group formed in 2014. It doesn't have a website, nor is it registered as a political committee with the Secretary of State. 

The messenger's money:

In 2016, Anadarko Petroleum donated $510,000 to the group, while Noble Energy gave $25,000.

In 2018, the nonprofit donated $200,000 to Fair Maps Colorado, which supports two measures on redistricting; $50,000 to Coloradans for Responsible Reform, which opposed a measure limiting housing growth that didn't make the ballot; and $15,000 to the Business Opportunity Fund, an independent spending committee that supports pro-business candidates.