Messenger: Protect Colorado
Candidate: None
Contest: Proposition 112
Affiliation: U
Date delivered: Sept. 14, 2018
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Message type: mailer
Message tone: negative
About the message:
This Protect Colorado mailer notes that the two gubernatorial candidates, Democratic Congressman Jared Polis and Republican Treasurer Walker Stapleton, both oppose Proposition 112 requiring 2,500-foot setbacks for oil and gas development. It also notes opposition from Gov. John Hickenlooper and former U.S. Sen. and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, both Democrats. Salazar has done private sector work for the oil and gas industry.
About the messenger: Protecting Colorado's Environment, Economy and Energy Independence, aka Protect Colorado, is an issue committee formed in 2014 backed by the oil and gas industry. It works to support and oppose ballot initiatives depending on the industry's position.
The messenger's money: Protect Colorado has raised more than $13 million through late July for the 2017-18 election cycle. Anadarko Petroleum has given about $4.5 million; Noble Energy about $2.5 million and Extraction Oil & Gas about $2.2 million.
