Messenger: Senate Majority Fund

Candidate: Brittany Pettersen

Contest: Senate District 22

Affiliation: D

Date delivered: Sept. 14, 2018

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Message type: mailer

Message tone: negative

About the message:

This mailer from the Senate Majority Fund attacks Democratic candidate and state Rep. Brittany Pettersen for having "no accountability, spending out of control and out-of-whack priorities." The measures the group cities:

• Her vote for the state budget, which passed the House 46-17 and the Senate 35-0. The mailer says the budget put the state in debt, which is not accurate.
• Her co-sponsorship, after it passed the House, of 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.
• Her co-sponsorship, after it passed the House, of a bill to prohibit the state or local government from cooperating with federal immigration laws considered discriminatory or unconstitutional. The bill died in the Senate.

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,