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January 29, 2010 05:23 AM UTC

Do NOT email me or call me again, EVER

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  • by: ThillyWabbit

(Anything about Doug Bruce, ANYTHING, gets a promote from me. – promoted by Middle of the Road)

So says Doug Bruce to the Gazette‘s Eileen Welsome.

Welsome put two and two together, conducting a nationwide search to find out who the petition circulators were for the fiscal suicide initiatives tied yesterday to Bruce.

Her findings are interesting:

When organizers of three Colorado initiatives targeting government spending launched a petition drive to get on the November ballot last year, they didn’t rely solely on amateurs, according to an analysis of data from the Colorado Secretary of State and the Washington D.C.-based Ballot Initiative Strategy Center.

The initiative backers used experienced circulators to help gather nearly half a million signatures – almost double the number required – to get Amendments 60 and 61 and Proposition 101 on the ballot, the data show.

And those circulators were no strangers to such efforts.

At issue is the fact that these people most certainly got paid, but those expenditures were never reported to the Secretary of State as required under the Colorado Constitution. Nor did they register as paid signature gatherers as required.

Petition circulators can earn $50,000 to $100,000 a year, and often move as a crew from state to state, he said. “Their primary purpose is to make as much money as they can,” Foster said.

“They tend to live together and travel together,” Foster said. “Signature gathering firms will call them when they need them to work on campaigns.”

Opponents fighting Amendments 60 and  61 and Proposition 101 allege in campaign finance complaints that the backers of the three initiatives have not disclosed their contributions or expenditures. The complaints also accuse the initiative backers of failing to comply with a new state law requiring petition-gathering companies to register with the Secretary of State’s Office. Bruce is not named in the complaints.

My advice to investigators if Doug Bruce ends up doing the perp walk: wear kneepads.

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18 thoughts on “Do NOT email me or call me again, EVER”

  1. This is the best you have? You wrote 150 words saying not a damn thing.

    I bet ‘ol Doug is really shaking in his boots knowing ColPols and the extreme far left are on the case.

    2. He’s guilty of something here! Put on your spectacles, fire up the oil lamps and scrutinize the electronic newspaper. Doug Bruce the scalawag is causing mischief! You’d better tell him to get off your lawn.  

      1. It made sense in the context of one post, but now it’s incongruous. And if there’s one thing math teachers hate, it’s objects that aren’t congruent.

      2. If he is breaking a law, nail his big head to a stick. I’m all for it.

        I was just commenting on how some people here are apparently so afraid of him that they will post nothing, and then others will promote it on the main page as if it was breaking news.

        Seems to me that some people here are just a tad anal when it comes to ‘ol Doug.

        Ya know?

        1. I can think of a couple of folks that engender that sort of behavior in others.. Bill Clinton, for one.

          I might also add that you may be confusing fear with revulsion. I have met “the Bruce” and he didn’t seem terrifying…just arrogant.

      1. From the Durango Herald:

        Even if the complaints are successful, they will not keep the three questions off the ballot, said Rich Coolidge, spokesman for Secretary of State Bernie Buescher. If Buescher finds the complaints meet legal requirements, he will send them to an administrative law judge, who will set a hearing in the next 15 days, Coolidge said.

        Chafee’s group is asking for fines of $50 a day and disclosures of the fundraising and expenses of the anti-tax campaigns since they started working.

        http://durangoherald.com/secti…

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