West Group is a recurring Colorado legal / compliance and representative-address node in the repository's Colorado ballot-initiative evidence. The strongest direct evidence in this pass comes from Colorado Title Board representative blocks and the Belleview Suite 375 address cluster, not from firm engagement letters or attorney-client records.
In this repository, West Group matters because the official Title Board source layer repeatedly places the firm name or C/O West Group in representative blocks for Advance Colorado-associated, Michael Fields-associated, and related conservative initiative rows. A separate address-census pass also treats Belleview Suite 375 as a broader legal-compliance and political-entity address cluster.
This page should be read conservatively. West Group recurrence is now source-backed as an official representative-block pattern, but the current evidence does not prove firm control, sponsorship, funding, drafting, or coordination across every measure.
The FEC filing-image follow-up for Western Way Action PAC FEC state-election advertising source cluster, 2024 adds a narrow federal filing-administration layer. Western Way Action PAC's 2024-07-25 F1 lists ja@westglp.com and jk@westglp.com as committee email contacts while naming John Karakoulakis as treasurer. Its original 2024-10-15 October Quarterly report was signed by Jon Anderson; the FEC then issued a 2024-11-25 RFAI because the report was not signed by the treasurer or designated agent listed on the F1; and the 2024-12-02 amended report was signed by Karakoulakis while preserving the same visible receipt and state-election-advertising disbursement rows.
This supports a direct filing-signature and contact-domain connection between West Group-linked infrastructure and Western Way Action PAC. It does not prove West Group controlled the PAC, sponsored the advertising, selected the target, or directed the money flow.
- Role or function: recurring legal / compliance / representative-address node in Colorado initiative records
- Scope: Colorado Title Board initiative representative blocks and Belleview Suite 375 address evidence
- Current Title Board evidence:
113 selected initiative rows and 226 representative segments include West Group or C/O West Group
- Most frequent Title Board representative-segment names in this pass: Suzanne Taheri, Michael Fields, Steven Ward, Dave Davia, Kristi Burton Brown, Michael Tsogt, Chuck Broerman, Sandrea Robnett, and Michele Haedrich
- Federal filing-administration evidence: Western Way Action PAC's F1 used
westglp.com email contacts, and its original Q3 F3X was signed by Jon Anderson before an FEC RFAI prompted an amended Karakoulakis-signed report
- Important distinction:
C/O West Group should be treated as a care-of or contact-label pattern unless additional records establish a stronger role
- Advance Colorado: several later
2025-2026 Title Board rows shift from West Group / care-of labels to direct Advance Colorado labels in the representative block.
- Michael Fields: Fields appears frequently in Title Board representative segments with West Group or care-of West Group labels, but he should not be described as a West Group attorney on the current source basis.
¶ Evidence and source basis
- West Group Title Board representative-role source cluster, 2023-2026: focused source summary for the row-level West Group representative-role extract.
- Advance Colorado Title Board initiative corpus, 2023-2026: official Title Board initiative-corpus summary with West Group recurrence as a lead and evidence layer.
- a locally retained official title board corpus from Colorado Secretary of State, captured 2026-04-19, titled Advance Colorado Title Board initiative corpus capture, 2023-2026: raw package note for official Title Board HTML, result pages, filing PDFs, and derived extracts.
- a locally retained official title board corpus from Colorado Secretary of State, captured 2026-04-19, titled Advance Colorado Title Board initiative corpus capture, 2023-2026: grouped representative counts generated from the Title Board extract.
- a locally retained official dataset address query from data.colorado.gov, captured 2026-04-19, titled Saint Vrain, Belleview, and Curtis address-census source pass: official-address-census source pass for the Saint Vrain Suite 105 and Belleview Suite 375 clusters, with the related QA note preserving cautions against overclaiming shared control or coordination.
- a locally retained dataset from www.fec.gov, captured 2026-04-21, titled Western Way Action PAC FEC filings, 2024: FEC filing-image package documenting Western Way Action PAC's organization statement, original Q3 F3X, FEC RFAI, and amended Q3 F3X.
- Which named representatives in the Title Board extract were acting as attorneys, designated representatives, sponsors, public advocates, or administrative contacts?
- Which initiative records include separate hearing, rehearing, appeal, or court filings that identify counsel roles more explicitly than the Title Board representative block?
- How should West Group's firm-level role be distinguished from Belleview Suite 375 address use, Strategic Compliance activity, and individual representatives' roles?
- What was Jon Anderson's exact authorized role, if any, in signing Western Way Action PAC's original October Quarterly report?
¶ Source access and local retention
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