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“The fact that they only gave money when he was doing these final rules, that more than ever really raises flags. There’s something fishy going on.”
Rep. Mark Ferrandino, commenting on campaign contributions from payday lending companies to Attorney General John Suthers as Suthers writes regulations to implement a new payday lending law, as reported in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, August 13, 2010

City candidates grapple with finance rules

Judy Weaver is still on council despite a fundraising faux pas four years ago.

By Peter Roper, The Pueblo Chieftain,
September 21, 2009
Campaign finance laws aren't of much use if no one knows them or follows them. That point was driven home in Pueblo city elections last week, when Councilwoman Judy Weaver acknowledged that a contribution she'd received to her 2005 campaign from the Pueblo County Republican Party was an unintentional violation of the city's charter.

Weaver, a Republican, said she was unaware until just last week that the charter bans contributions from political parties. Her opponent that year, Democrat Steve Nawrocki, said he was unaware of the ban either. And it could have been a costly violation, because if Nawrocki had challenged that 2005 contribution to Weaver anytime within a year after her election, she could have been removed from office, according to Pueblo City Attorney Tom Jagger.

For the full story, please visit http://chieftain.com/articles/2009/09/20/news/local/doc4ab5bbd904a709475632...
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