Article: CITY AUDITOR'S AIDE MAKING MONEY OFF A BALLOT ISSUE.(Commentary/Editorial)(COLORADO POLITICS)

Byline: Peter Blake, Rocky Mountain News

The Denver auditor's office pays spokesman Denis Berckefeldt $72,456.00 a year.

I hope I have that right. I don't want to mislocate the decimal point like the auditor's office did this week, turning billions into millions and thereby understating the city's debt by about 90 percent.

Anyway, Berckefeldt is managing to make a few thousand dollars more by moonlighting, or maybe daylighting, as a media buyer for one of the ballot issues.

The committee supporting Amendment 34, which would make it easier to sue homebuilders, has reported paying Berckefeldt's home-based media firm, Prairie Fire Communications, $179,030 since ...

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