{"id":8600,"date":"2011-10-18T20:06:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T02:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=8600"},"modified":"2011-11-18T12:13:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T19:13:43","slug":"xcel-continues-to-outspend-pro-2b2c-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=8600","title":{"rendered":"Xcel Continues to Outspend Pro-2B & 2C Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Xcel Energy and the Boulder Smart Energy Coalition (BSEC) spent almost exactly 10 times the amount that pro-2B & 2C groups spent since campaign finance reporting began in August.\u00a0 The reports, which were due today, show election contributions and expenditures since mid-August and detail where the money comes from and where it goes.<\/p>\n

With infusions of cash from Xcel, the Xcel Energy Issue Committee and the BSEC spent $661,000; about 30% on consultants (the Kenney Group, Utilipoint\/Bob Bellemare, David Miller and Buzz Burrell), 21% on Internet ads, 10% on door-to-door canvassers, 9% on video production, and 4% on direct mail.\u00a0 The bulk of the rest of the expenditures were booked as Xcel employees’ “Work on Anti-Municipalization Effort.”<\/p>\n

The pro-2B & 2C groups Citizens for Boulder’s Clean Energy Future ($32,677), Campaign for Local Energy ($18,376), and Boulder Smarter Energy Coalition ($15,660) spent most of their funds on advertising.\u00a0 PLAN-Boulder County, which is supporting four ballot issues this year, spent $850 on Issues 2B & 2C.<\/p>\n

All of the contribution and expenditure reports are available at the city’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Xcel Energy and the Boulder Smart Energy Coalition (BSEC) spent almost exactly 10 times the amount that pro-2B & 2C groups spent since campaign finance reporting began in August.\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[450,420,447,183,419,497,448,162,126,449,101],"class_list":["post-8600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-2b2c","tag-bob-bellemare","tag-buzz-burrell","tag-campaign-finance","tag-david-miller","tag-election-2011","tag-kenney-group","tag-municipalization","tag-plan-boulder","tag-utilipoint","tag-xcel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8600"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9197,"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8600\/revisions\/9197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}