Stephen Varela is the resolved political subject for the user-supplied Stephen Vallero query in the Boebert / Rural Colorado United investigation. The current source set supports Stephen Varela, not Stephen Vallero, as the relevant Colorado political figure.
OpenFEC resolves him as House candidate H4CO03423, with STEPHEN VARELA FOR COLORADO, committee C00865501, as his 2024 principal federal campaign committee. Colorado TRACER resolves him as the 2022 Senate District 03 candidate tied to THE COMMITTEE TO ELECT VARELA FOR SD3, committee ID 20225042504. CDE's official news release confirms his 2023 State Board of Education appointment for Congressional District 3.
Stephen Vallero.Stephen Vallero as a durable alias. The repo search, OpenFEC evidence, TRACER evidence, CDE page, and retained reporting all point to Varela for this political-finance cluster.898 rows across contributions and expenditures, and the official candidate detail page shows the candidate and committee as inactive / terminated.This page remains centered on the Boebert / Rural Colorado United political-finance cluster, but Varela now recurs in Colorado charter-school source material strongly enough to preserve bounded education context.
Intent to Apply to Become a District Charter School form submitted by Stephen Varela for Jefferson Classical Academy on February 5, 2026. The same attachment states that the JCA application was received March 31, 2026.Evidence boundary: the Delta records and application support Varela's JCA intent-to-apply/contact/designated-representative role and the application timeline. The application now directly identifies Bill Bennett / William J. Bennett as Founding Provost of the Jefferson Classical Academies, Colorado Choice Schools as the applicant-board layer, ACCEL as proposed manager, and James Salazar as the Colorado Choice Schools secretary who moved to submit JCA to Delta. The current source set still does not identify Doug Wilson, ACCS, Canon Press, Logos School, New Saint Andrews, Christ Church, JCA funders, a signed management agreement, or the withdrawal lawyer's email text. The separate Pueblo ACCEL / Ron Packard / K12 lane remains context and should not be treated as proof of JCA approval, operation, or funding.
The supported relationship is adversarial and campaign-infrastructure related:
The current source set does not identify a direct Varela-to-Boebert money flow, shared authorized committee, joint fundraising committee, common treasurer, loan, transfer, staff overlap, or legal-counsel overlap.
The official TRACER candidate detail page lists two complaint rows for Stephen Varela, ED2022-60 and ED2022-16, both with status Closed. Retained reporting describes allegations around candidate-affidavit, financial-disclosure, reporting, and disclaimer issues. The repo does not yet preserve complaint packets or orders, so the allegations should not be treated as adjudicated facts.
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