Scott Gessler in The Newsballot initiatives,
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dunk tank,
election,
expanding government,
fear mongering,
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minority voters,
moonlighting,
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reimbursement,
self-payment,
special interest influence,
theft,
vote suppression
Judge denies request to halt investigation of Scott Gessler's spendingFebruary 07, 2013 - Denver Post Amid questions over the very meaning of the word "ethics," a Denver judge on Thursday rejected Secretary of State Scott Gessler's request to block the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission from investigating his spending of office funds. Read full article (Denver Post website)Keywords: lawsuit, partisan, reimbursement, self-payment, theft Colorado judge denies Scott Gessler on "inactive voters" lawsuitJanuary 21, 2013 - Denver Post A Colorado state district court judge on Monday ruled that state law allows county clerks the authority to send ballots to "inactive failed to vote" voters in mail-in-only elections...Scott Gessler sued Denver County Clerk and Recorder Debra Johnson in 2011 for sending mail ballots to such so-called "inactive" voters. District Court Judge Edward D. Bronfin ruled against Gessler — an election-law attorney — saying that Johnson's interpretation of the law is correct Read full article (Denver Post website)Keywords: election, inactive voters, lawsuit, vote suppression Denver clerk sues Gessler over mailing ballots to inactive votersSeptember 19, 2012 - Denver Post Denver Clerk and Recorder Debra Johnson on Wednesday sued Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, challenging a rule from his office that would block ballots from being mailed to inactive voters in city and school board elections. "The election rules adopted in August by the Colorado secretary of state prohibiting the mailing of ballots to inactive-failed-to-vote voters in nonpartisan and coordinated elections infringes on Denver's status as a home rule city and county," Johnson said in a statement. "We believe that the secretary of state is overstepping his authority by trying to control who gets ballots in local municipal elections. Read full article (Denver Post website)Keywords: inactive voters, lawsuit, vote suppression Judge rejects Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler's changesAugust 11, 2012 - Denver Post A Denver District Court judge has invalidated several — and upheld one — of the changes Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler made to campaign-finance regulations in March. Read full article (Denver Post website)Keywords: campaign finance, election, lawsuit, special interest influence Why We're Suing Colorado SOS Scott GesslerApril 25, 2012 - Huffington Post Colorado's Secretary of State Scott Gessler has just put into effect a new set of political financing and disclosure rules that open up new opportunities to hide big money in politics from the public's view, throwing out the welcome mat to potential, political corruption in Colorado. Read full article (Huffington Post website)Keywords: campaign finance, lawsuit, vote suppression Watchdog groups sue Colorado secretary of state over campaign-finance lawsApril 07, 2012 - The Denver Post Two organizations sued Secretary of State Scott Gessler on Friday, saying he weakened Colorado's campaign-finance laws when heissued a rewrite of the state's rules earlier this yearand that he didn't have authority to do so. Keywords: campaign finance, lawsuit, special interest influence, vote suppression Aspen election activist suing Colorado secretary of state over traceability of ballotsApril 03, 2012 - Real Aspen The challenges mounting on Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler's deskgo beyond whether to mail ballots to residents who haven't voted in a while. He has another predicament: bar codes. Keywords: election, lawsuit Democrats say lawsuit against candidate was 'bogus' from the startOctober 25, 2006 - Rocky Mountain News A Republican attorney filed a campaign finance complaint against a Democratic state House candidate, then blasted her in a mailing paid for by the political attack group he set up. Democrats are crying foul, saying attorney Scott Gessler knew when he filed the complaint against Democrat Jeanne Labuda, of Denver, that it would be dismissed because he had waited too long before making his case. But they said he filed it anyway so he could mention the complaint in the mailing to voters in House District 1. Read full article (Rocky Mountain News website)Keywords: campaign finance, election, lawsuit, special interest influence |
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