The $5 million shadow ledger: Pueblo Democrats’ HQ funded by bingo, not disclosed in filings
By Jen Schumann | Rocky Mountain Voice
A building paid for with bingo money. A political party using it as their headquarters. And more than $5 million in unreported financial activity that, to date, no one has answered for.
That’s the core of Pueblo resident Jonathan Ambler’s ongoing legal challenge against the Pueblo County Democratic Party and its Central Committee. Ambler, a former Republican candidate, filed two complaints last fall alleging the party used a bingo-funded building for years without reporting it in TRACER.
After the Colorado Secretary of State dismissed both complaints in April, Ambler – without an attorney – petitioned the Denver District Court for judicial review.
"If political activities are occurring at the building – and the Party itself refers to it as...