Pro-reform group spends big on 2015 campaign
A committee affiliated with Democrats for Education Reform has spent nearly $90,000 on campaign materials for two Denver school board candidates.
The group, Raising Colorado, spent $87,667 with two East Coast advertising agencies to produce campaign materials, according to campaign finance records filed late this week.
Jen Walmer, registered agent for the committee and state director of DFER, detailed the spending this way:
- $14,277 was paid to Greenlight Media of New York to produce and send a mailer for board candidate Lisa Flores in northwest Denver’s District 5.
- $51,685 was paid to Three Point Media of Washington, D.C., for support of Flores. Another $21,705 was spent on digital ads supporting candidate Anne Rowe in southeast Denver’s district 1.
Raising Colorado also spent $397 with High Line Communications of Littleton to provide web design support for Flores, Rowe and board president Allegra “Happy” Haynes, Walmer said.
All the money raised by the group this year — $250,000 – has come from New York-based Education Reform Advocacy, a DFER-related political group that raises money and redistributes it to state groups such as Raising Colorado.
The amount spent by Raising Colorado lags the nearly $95,000 donated to three other candidates by two teachers union groups. (See this story for details on DPS campaign donations, and use our database to find contributors to individual candidates.)
The money spent by Raising Colorado also is less than the combined total of about $114,000 raised by Flores and Rowe for their own campaign committees.
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