Rural Colorado United is the central committee mechanism in the current Lauren Boebert / Stephen Varela source cluster.
OpenFEC resolves Rural Colorado United as committee C00755678, a Super PAC / independent expenditure-only committee, unauthorized, with cycles 2020 and 2022. The retained committee-search output lists AUTOBEE, GEORGE as treasurer.
The committee is the strongest supported operational link:
This supports a campaign-spending and public-message mechanism against Boebert. It does not prove coordination, donor intent, common control, or that Varela personally funded or approved each expenditure.
OpenFEC committee totals in the retained package:
| Cycle | Receipts | Disbursements | Independent expenditures |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $314,490.33 |
$308,955.80 |
$308,955.80 |
| 2022 | $34,137.58 |
$41,279.13 |
$41,279.13 |
Filtered anti-Boebert Schedule E captures:
215 endpoint rows, 3 pages, support / oppose indicator O.152 endpoint rows, 2 pages, support / oppose indicator O.The retained filtered Schedule E files are page-1 endpoint captures, not a complete filing-image reconstruction.
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