A new conservative website, intended to help distribute political opposition research and raise funds, is set to launch Thursday as part of a well-financed, multiyear effort by Republicans in Colorado.
The site is a GOP response to years of well-funded Democratic initiatives in the similar vein, specifically as outlined in “The Blueprint” — a 2010 book detailing how Colorado’s left took over the state.
ColoradoCore.org acts as an organizational tool for both Colorado-based and national Republican groups involved with the 2014 state elections and beyond as both a fundraising tool and information hub. The idea is to have readily available, easily disseminated information about liberal candidates that others, as well as those running the website, can use to create ads.
“With an eye towards longevity, and in understanding that all politics is local politics, our focus is on winning a majority in the Colorado state Senate in 2014, in addition to targeting statewide races,” said Lexi Effron, a spokeswoman for the site’s organizing group, Colorado Republican Independent Expenditure Committee.
The site is rolling out with opposition research on seven state Senate candidates in districts spanning Colorado that “internal research reveals to be competitive and winnable by a Republican.”
The group — which at its heart is focused on unearthing campaign expenditures — is a new tool for the Colorado Republican Committee. Effron says the new site is chairman Ryan Call’s “brainchild.”
Call said the effort will “help reach voters in an unprecedented manner.”
Up to $5 million, in addition to $10 million to $12 million that the committee will help direct from state and national groups, has been slated to fund the project, which will have full-time staffers.
The expenditure committee, backed by Secretary of State Scott Gessler earlier this year, remains subject to a legal challenge.
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