Official TRACER records identify two Scott Bottoms-associated candidate committees in this pass: SCOTT BOTTOMS FOR HD15 and SCOTT BOTTOMS FOR GOVERNOR. The HD15 committee was registered in March 2022 and terminated in February 2025. The gubernatorial committee was registered in January 2025 and remained active on the reviewed page. Official bulk rows reconcile to the visible governor committee contribution, expenditure, non-monetary, and loan totals when TRACER's formal type fields are used. A follow-up document retrieval recovered the ED2026-01 complaint attachment, a February 2025 voluntary-spending-limit withdrawal document, a December 2025 personal financial disclosure, and selected filing-detail HTML.
| Committee |
Committee ID |
Candidate ID |
Office |
Status |
Registration / termination |
SCOTT BOTTOMS FOR HD15 |
20225042386 |
20225042382 |
Colorado House District 15 |
Terminated |
registered 2022-03-07; terminated 2025-02-10 |
SCOTT BOTTOMS FOR GOVERNOR |
20255047962 |
20255047961 |
Governor |
Active |
registered 2025-01-21 |
| Committee |
Monetary contributions |
Non-monetary contributions |
Monetary expenditures |
Non-monetary expenditures |
Loans received |
Loan payments |
SCOTT BOTTOMS FOR HD15 |
$22,045.97 |
$2,662.39 |
$22,045.97 |
$1,427.80 |
$0.00 |
$0.00 |
SCOTT BOTTOMS FOR GOVERNOR |
$110,416.78 |
$6,121.77 |
$122,172.20 |
$4,073.77 |
$15,000.00 |
$0.00 |
- HD15 activity is spread across the 2022, 2023, 2024, and final 2025 source CSVs.
- The HD15 committee made a
$4,899.87 expenditure to SCOTT BOTTOMS FOR GOVERNOR on 2025-02-06, explained as rolling over unexpended funds to the new committee.
- The governor committee's 2025 and 2026 source CSV rows show a higher-dollar statewide operation, with major advertising and consulting expenditures.
¶ Donor and self-funding notes
- The largest aggregate donor/payee name in the filtered data is Scott Bottoms himself when contributions and non-monetary contributions are grouped by donor name.
- The governor committee records show Bottoms with
$9,287.66 in monetary contributions and $941.45 in non-monetary contributions, plus two candidate loans totaling $15,000.00.
- Linda Bottoms appears in the linked-transaction table with smaller HD15 in-kind payments and governor campaign contributions.
- The finance report in
outputs/reports/scott-bottoms-campaign-finance-reconciliation-2026-04-15.md preserves the top donor and top payee tables, while full filtered rows are retained in raw CSVs.
¶ Payee and vendor notes
- The largest governor committee payee in the filtered data is
MARBLE CAKE MEDIA LLC with $54,200.00.
- Other large governor payees include
COREY GIBSON, MKT GENIUS, DANTE, MULTITUDE MEDIA, WINRED, JOHN LOUDON, and PATRICK BRADFORD.
- The governor committee also reports payments and non-monetary matched expenditures involving Scott Bottoms himself, including travel, advertising, food, software, mileage, and reimbursements / contribution refunds.
- The HD15 committee's largest final-period payee was the gubernatorial committee transfer.
- ED2026-01 attachment: recovered as
tracer-documents/ED2026-01-complaint-attachment-popup-resource.pdf, with extracted text retained beside it.
- Governor voluntary-spending-limit withdrawal: recovered as
tracer-documents/gov-document-1452145-vsl-withdrawal-2025-02-12-popup-resource.pdf.
- HD15 personal financial disclosure: recovered as
tracer-documents/hd15-document-1466380-pfd-2025-12-19-popup-resource.pdf.
- Filing-detail HTML: recovered for the HD15 April 15, 2025 RCE and the governor January 15, 2026 RCE amendment-selection path.
¶ Compliance and discrepancy items
- TRACER listed complaint
ED2026-01 against Scott Bottoms, filed 2026-01-09 by the Elections Division, subject PROHIBITED CONTRIBUTIONS ALLEGED, status Open, with disposition text 1/26/2026 CURE DEADLINE.
- The recovered ED2026-01 attachment alleges over-limit contributions in the July 15, 2025 and October 15, 2025 RCEs, including examples involving Jeffrey Coors, David Hoke, John Roff, and Leigh Sargent.
- The recovered attachment also alleges two anonymous cash contributions over
$100 and several missing or incomplete contributor-address disclosures.
- The notice states a January 26, 2026 cure deadline. It is evidence of allegations and an opportunity-to-cure process, not proof of a final violation.
- The governor page notes that balances for the election cycle were manually adjusted. Transaction totals reconcile after formal classification, but beginning balance / carry-forward mechanics still need direct report-image review.
- The HD15 candidate affidavit date appears inconsistent between the candidate header and decoded filing rows; direct form-image review is still needed before treating one date as final.
- Third-party aggregators were not used as source of truth for campaign-finance totals in this pass.
- The ED2026-01 attachment is now recovered, but the cure response, amendments, disposition, dismissal, settlement, or enforcement outcome still need later refresh.
- This summary is based on official committee pages, official bulk CSVs, generated filters, and selected recovered TRACER document images. It should be revisited if TRACER updates reports, complaint status, or amended filings.