Lobbyist Insight

Colorado

Colorado lobbying records

Every filer who declared a side on at least 25 bills whose outcome is known — 430 of them — ranked by how far their results beat what those same positions would have produced by chance.

How to read this

In Colorado, between 53% and 93% of lobbied bills pass, depending on the session. So supporting a bill is not the same bet as opposing one, and neither is the same bet in a different year. Expected is how many of that filer's positions would have come out their way at the session's own pass rate. Edge is how much better they did. At least is the bottom of the 95% confidence interval — the part of the edge that survives the sample being small.

Ranked by that floor rather than by edge, because 25 wins from 25 positions is weaker evidence than a smaller edge across 150.

This is a record, not a measure of influence. Lobbyists choose winnable fights and already-sympathetic legislators, most lobbying never appears in any filing, and a contested bill has filers on both sides with no way to apportion credit between them. What is measured here is the alignment between a position someone declared and what then happened to the bill.

Best records

FilerPositionsWonExpectedEdge±At least
Hallgren, Kathleen252512+51.0%±8.0+35.4%
Perez, Claudia Nicole272613+47.2%±8.1+31.3%
Tierney, Martha Moore847546+35.0%±4.6+25.9%
Teter, John K Edge716844+33.4%±4.8+24.1%
Sloan, Ronald C584828+33.7%±5.9+22.0%
Richard G Brown Enterprises, Inc.15413188+27.8%±3.6+20.9%
Collective Strategies402714+32.9%±6.7+19.8%
Hatton, Kiera252112+36.2%±8.4+19.7%
Trimpa Group483419+30.5%±6.1+18.6%
WALLER, JENIFER16912381+24.7%±3.4+18.1%
Skewes Government Affairs, LLC15611879+24.8%±3.5+18.0%
Axiom Strategies Inc13410471+24.8%±4.0+16.9%
Collective Strategices, LLC26189+33.1%±8.3+16.8%
Peper, Dylan665436+27.0%±5.3+16.7%
Snow, Erin E1219667+23.9%±3.9+16.3%
Morgan, Alison Mim Kirk805535+25.4%±4.7+16.1%
Kemper, Douglas565237+26.0%±5.8+14.7%
The Capstone Group, LLC968753585+17.3%±1.4+14.6%
HODGES, DANIEL S.1007350+22.5%±4.4+13.9%
DeLange, Brandy423422+27.4%±7.0+13.6%
Lombard & Clayton, Inc.211165124+19.4%±3.1+13.4%
Polo, Chane Marie333121+28.9%±7.9+13.4%
Ascent Strategies, LLC846041+22.2%±4.7+13.0%
BRANDEBERRY MCKENNA PUBLIC AFFAIRS1,4281,079868+14.8%±1.1+12.6%
76 Group604127+23.3%±5.5+12.5%
Ewing, Joshua294242191+17.3%±2.4+12.5%
Dollar, Meghan Storrie12810075+19.6%±3.7+12.3%
Denver Human Services817457+21.4%±4.7+12.2%
Politicalworks LLC801582462+15.0%±1.5+12.0%
Zheleznyak, Jacqueline188148114+18.2%±3.2+12.0%
Michael Best Strategies433345276+16.0%±2.1+11.9%
OATIS, KATHLEEN ANN307241189+16.9%±2.5+11.9%
Weist Capitol Group, Inc.382277215+16.1%±2.2+11.8%
Political Advocacy, Inc636487391+15.0%±1.7+11.7%
MULREADY, KATHERINE240193152+17.0%±2.7+11.7%
Furman, Daniel261187143+16.9%±2.6+11.7%
Pike, Erica807154+20.7%±4.6+11.6%
Jerry R Braden Inc.716045+21.4%±5.0+11.5%
Colorado Chamber of Commerce352221165+15.9%±2.3+11.4%
Colorado District Attorneys' Council212167130+17.3%±3.0+11.4%
Orf & Orf PC595399312+14.7%±1.8+11.3%
Aloria Governmental Affairs14611891+18.3%±3.6+11.3%
Angie Binder714429+21.3%±5.1+11.3%
RUZZIN, MARK395317256+15.4%±2.1+11.2%
Garcia, Vanessa Jeanette504635+22.6%±5.8+11.2%
Education Reform Now Advocacy938466+19.6%±4.3+11.1%
Gervais, Daphne Sarah484534+23.2%±6.2+11.1%
Ratliff and Associates1017555+19.6%±4.4+11.1%
Orf & Orf P.C.571380297+14.5%±1.8+11.0%
Axiom Strategies Inc dba Axiom Politics464323254+15.0%±2.0+11.0%
DOME STRATEGIES203138104+16.8%±3.0+10.9%
Siegel Long Public Affairs, LLC1,211918758+13.2%±1.2+10.8%
Cannon, Leslie M483726+22.5%±6.0+10.8%
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP353251197+15.2%±2.3+10.7%
MANDARICH, MARY ALICE191148116+16.8%±3.2+10.7%
Gold Dome Access, LLC15210982+17.5%±3.5+10.7%
Capitol Focus, LLC598420336+14.1%±1.8+10.6%
Hiltz, Allison978769+18.7%±4.2+10.6%
Bergman, Eric H13910580+17.6%±3.7+10.5%
Hoover, Nicholas Adam513928+22.5%±6.1+10.5%

Worst records

A negative edge often means a filer opposes bills that were going to pass anyway, or represents clients on the losing side of settled politics. It is not a measure of competence.

FilerPositionsWonExpectedEdge±At least
Square State Strategy Group (Margo Radach)1696296-20.2%±3.3-26.6%
Vessely, Brittany Lena1477296-16.2%±3.5-23.0%
Rhodes, Taylor D.471220-17.5%±6.1-29.4%
KRASKA, JENNIFER M351622-17.2%±7.4-31.6%
Cole, Nephi J351016-16.2%±7.2-30.2%
RATAJ, CHRISTIAN JOHN291015-18.0%±8.3-34.2%
Couture-Lovelady, Travis39813-13.8%±6.9-27.3%
Blaney, Emmett R251418-17.1%±8.7-34.0%
Westerson, Caitlin Nichole1046168-6.8%±4.4-15.4%
Furman Political Strategies754146-6.4%±4.9-16.1%
Escalante, Ian C28610-12.6%±8.2-28.7%
Western Colorado Alliance522934-8.8%±6.4-21.4%
Server, Matthew Kenneth1106973-3.7%±3.9-11.4%
GAGLIARDI, A. F. (TONY)20798102-1.8%±3.0-7.7%
Leathwood, Heidi412125-9.1%±6.8-22.4%
Michels, Emily Lisle774146-6.2%±5.4-16.9%
Myers, Amelia A271821-9.8%±7.5-24.5%
Center for Health Progress1258789-2.0%±3.7-9.3%
JUDY, DEBRA K1036669-2.6%±4.3-11.0%
SEADER, SANDRA L.613840-4.0%±5.2-14.3%
NUNEZ, ELENA M251215-12.4%±9.5-31.0%
WALKER, CAROLE452124-6.3%±6.4-18.7%
West Group874447-3.1%±4.8-12.6%
Ramaswami, Aditi553638-4.2%±5.4-14.7%
Moldovan, Karen865760-3.0%±4.8-12.4%
Recht Kornfeld, P.C.274165160+1.9%±2.6-3.1%
Brown, Debra Suzanne312627-3.6%±5.5-14.4%
Colorado Family Action341518-8.3%±8.0-24.0%
Capitol Solutions/Sandra Hagen Solin442246231+3.5%±2.0-0.5%
Kemp, Megan412527-5.5%±6.8-18.8%