Messenger: Coloradans for Fairness

Candidate: Jessie Danielson

Contest: Senate District 20

Affiliation: D

Date delivered: Oct. 20, 2018

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Message type: mailer

Message tone: positive

About the message:

This mailer from super PAC Coloradans for Fairness says that Democratic state Rep. Jessie Danielson will require more public disclosure in elections, work to expand vocational and career education programs, and work to reduce health care costs as a state senator. Danielson faces Republican Christine Jensen in this open seat centered in Wheat Ridge and Arvada.

About the messenger:

Coloradans for Fairness is an independent spending committee or super PAC supporting Democratic candidates for state Senate. As an independent spending committee, the group may take unlimited donations and spend unlimited amounts, but it is not supposed to coordinate with candidates or political parties.

The messenger's money:

Coloradans for Fairness received $1.1 million from nonprofit The Sixteen Thirty Fund; $200,000 from the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, which is chaired by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder; $150,000 from Education Reform Now Advocacy; $100,000 from the Green Advocacy Project, which advocates for clean energy; $50,000 from Environment America; as well as large donations from a range of Colorado businesses, including Anadarko, Anheuser Busch, PhARMA and others.