Colorado Newsline: There are very few people with the power to force a whole state government to get to work.

In Colorado, the governor is one of those people. We know his name. He generally has to be public about his actions. And voters can hold him to account.

As we saw this week, others possess this power, but their identities are concealed.

They are the wealthy supporters of a “dark money” group, which can spend massive amounts of money to influence policy — public policy that every resident of the state must live with but is untraceable to a source that’s answerable to the public.

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