Gordon to Dennis: delay rules
Lynn Bartels, Rocky Mountain News
Published August 30, 2006 at midnight
Senate Majority Leader Ken Gordon today called on Secretary of State Gigi Dennis to delay her controversial campaign-finance rules until after the November election.
Gordon, the Democratic candidate for secretary of state, said the rules are "without merit" and were implemented in the middle of the election, which is unfair.
"The secretary of state should be a non-partisan referee in our elections. In this case, the secretary of state took input only from the Republican Party and made partisan changes to the rules," he said during a news conference outside the state capitol.
Dennis, a Republican, said she took input from both parties and the new rules she announced earlier this month had detractors in both parties.
The rules that have Democrats livid involve membership fees used to make contributions to small-donor committees. Those committees traditionally back Democratic candidates so the party cried foul when Dennis decided to make it more difficult to contribute.
Pat Waak, the chairwoman of the Colorado Democratic Party, has called on Dennis to resign, but Gordon said that doesn't solve the problem.
Mike Coffman, the Republican candidate for secretary of state, believes Dennis was right in saying that the membership rules needed to be changed, but he agrees they shouldn't have been implemented in the middle of the election.
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