Messenger: Senate Majority Fund
Candidate: Tim Neville
Contest: Senate District 16
Affiliation: R
Date delivered: Sept. 19, 2018
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Message type: mailer
Message tone: positive
About the message:
This Senate Majority Project mailer highlights incumbent GOP state Sen. Tim Neville's support of families as a state lawmaker.
Among the measures it cites:
- A successful measure to expand tax credits for child care costs. Only seven senators opposed the bill; Neville didn't sign on as a co-sponsor.
- A bill to increase funding for school security systems, which Neville was the prime sponsor of. The bill passed both houses unanimously and was signed by the governor.
- The school finance act, one of two bills the legislature must pass every year. It typically increases school funding, and it passed the Senate unanimously on the way to becoming law.
It should be noted that some groups interested in education and families give Neville low ratings, according to VoteSmart. Those include 13 percent from the Colorado Teachers Association, 43 percent by the Women's Lobby of Colorado and 20 percent by the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative.
About the messenger: The Senate Majority Fund is a state-level super PAC that supports Republican candidates for Colorado's state Senate and opposes Democratic candidates.
The messenger's money: The group has raised about $2 million since Jan. 1, 2017, including $200,000 from Noble Energy, $77,200 from Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America, $64,000 from the Colorado Apartment Association, $45,000 from The Anschutz Corp. and $35,000 from Encana Oil & Gas,
