On Thursday, Nov. 16th, 2017 from 5:30 – 7:30 at the Branding Iron in BV featured speaker, Caroline Fry, the Advocacy & Media Manager with Colorado Common Cause discussed with an audience of about 40 people how money affects state and local races. She shared hands-on strategies to use to track money in Colorado politics. The audience enjoyed complimentary appetizers and a cash bar. Below are the slides from the presentation.
Caroline recommend a few things that you may find interesting:
The Secretary of State’s TRACER website: http://tracer.sos.colorado.gov/PublicSite/homepage.aspx
This is where you can see every dollar coming in and out of every committee that is raising and spending money in Colorado elections. I am hoping to record and release a short video explaining how the public can use the website to “follow the money” during the 2018 elections. For now, you can watch the Secretary of State’s training videos on their website (pay specific attention to 7) search contributions & 8) search expenditures): http://tracer.sos.colorado.gov/PublicSite/WebTraining.aspx
Colorado Common Cause email list:
www.commoncause.org/sign-up.html
Folks who sign up will hear about what we’re working on throughout the year, including action alerts, special events, and Common Cause news.
Colorado Action Committee:
co.commoncause.org/action
This is a sign-up list for Common Cause activists who want to do more than just receive occasional emails from us. I personally email this list bi-weekly with updates about how they can get plugged into our work. For example, there’s a net neutrality rally that we’re planning in December 9th, and some of my action committee members are helping us with the planning.
Additionally, folks can follow Common Cause on Facebook and Twitter.