Messenger: Senate Majority Fund

Candidate: Beth Martinez Humenik

Contest: Senate District 24

Affiliation: R

Date delivered: Sept. 1, 2018

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Message type: mailer

Message tone: positive

About the message:

This mailer from super PAC Senate Majority Fund calls Republican state Sen. Beth Martinez Humenik a problem-solver, citing her work on affordable healthcare, quality education and better roads.

Specific measures that support the claims, though they aren't cited:

• Her efforts to cut regulations, including a bill she sponsored in the Senate to allow pharmacists to suggest lower-priced drugs
• A bill she sponsored to create suicide prevention training for schools
• Her co-sponsorship after passage of a measure to improve transportation infrastructure.

Martinez Humenik faces Democratic state Rep. Faith Winter.

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,