Messenger: Senate Majority Fund

Candidate: Faith Winter

Contest: Senate District 24

Affiliation: D

Date delivered: Sept. 8, 2018

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Message type: mailer

Message tone: negative

About the message:

This mailer from the Senate Majority Fund attacks Democratic state Sen. Faith Winter as a partisan, citing a need for pragmatists. Winter is challenging GOP state Sen. Beth Martinez Humenik in a key contest for Republicans hoping to retain their majority.

Among the allegations:

• Her vote for a measure to improve family leave by charging an insurance premium of less than 1 percent of wages for all employees in Colorado. The measure died in the Senate.
• Votes for a bill to prevent state income tax deductions for those who use 529 education savings accounts intended for college instead for K-12 private school tuition, and for a bill to regulate student loan servicers. Both bills died in the Senate.
• A vote against a budget amendment to increase funding for schools. The measure would have taken money away from Medicaid reimbursments or the state employee pension program, according to the Denver Post.

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,