A committee to recall Gov. Jared Polis has raised more than $100,000 since March, but its reports are littered with errors and its online donors don’t always match the information it gives the state.
Nearly 120 of the 1,337 itemized individual donations to the Official Recall Colorado Governor Jared Polis committee don’t have the required donor addresses, according to a review by The Colorado Sun. Another 43 donations of over $100 lack employer information. And online contributions reported through one fundraising website conflict with legal filings with the secretary of state.
Organizers insist they followed state guidelines, but others aren’t sure.
The secretary of state’s office on Tuesday rejected a complaint filed earlier this month about the Official Recall committee’s online fundraising reports based on a technical issue, saying it “failed to specifically identify a violation of Colorado campaign finance law.” But The Sun’s review of the committees filings found a variety of discrepancies that remain unresolved.
The reporting issues are part of a web of confusion, infighting and questions surrounding several political groups that all profess a mission to recall Polis, the Democrat who took office in January after a 10-point win in the 2018 election.
Already, at least six anti-Polis committees registered by three different groups are raising money for a potential recall election. Only two of the groups have a significant amount of money to date. And the total collections are a fraction of what the groups would need to run an effective campaign.
The administrator for an Official Recall group in Weld County told its supporters on Facebook this week that it would not start collecting signatures in early July as planned.
