Listen: Millions of tax dollars boosted controversial ‘education’ campaign for Front Range rail

Colorado Public Radio reports: Thanks to all who supported CPR's news, music and programs during the drive!. The backers of the Colorado Connector train project spent nearly $2 million of taxpayer money in August on a blitz of glossy mailers, videos by Instagram influencers and other ads hyping the proposed Front Range rail project. It was billed as an education effort, but the seven-figure advertising campaign included a flood of positive messages about the train less than three months before voters would be asked to approve hundreds of millions of dollars in new sales taxes for the project.

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