City clerk dismisses election complaint from group campaigning to close Boulder airport

Boulder’s city clerk has dismissed an election complaint that housing advocates filed against groups opposed to closing the Boulder airport.

On May 23, Airport Neighborhood Campaign, a pro-housing group, filed a complaint against the Boulder Airport Association and the Boulder Aviation Association. The Airport Neighborhood Campaign was circulating petitions at the time for two ballot measures to decommission the 96-year-old airport and create a neighborhood made up of at least 50% permanently affordable homes. Since then, the group has gathered enough signatures to get both measures added to this fall’s ballot.

The complaint alleged the pro-airport groups were working to oppose the ballot petitions without disclosing their expenditures or contributions as official ballot measure committees. According to the complaint, the groups had been soliciting and receiving contributions since at least May 15. The Boulder Airport Association’s May 13 newsletter stated that the group had hired Matt Moseley, a public relations professional, and had already raised $10,000.

But in an email from last month shared with the Daily Camera, City Clerk Elesha Johnson wrote that she had reviewed the complaint and found no elections violations.




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