Campaign manager Britt now managing second email scandal of his career

Building from reports last month on a possible breach of campaign-finance regulations, Colorado Ethics Watch has filed a Colorado Opens Record Act request to determine whether the government-funded Colorado Senate Minority Office provided the gubernatorial campaign of Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry (R-Grand Junction) with email contact lists. Colorado law prohibits state agencies from providing contributions to a campaign. Ethics Watch contends the email lists are valuable and would amount to a campaign contribution.

In September, the Denver Post reported that government employees were receiving campaign emails from Penry for Governor– employees that subscribed to the Minority Office list but not to the Penry campaign list.