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Rachel Woolf | KHN
In the final weeks before the Nov. 3 election, supporters of a down-in-the-weeds effort to overturn a tax law in Colorado received a cascade of big checks, for a total of more than $2 million.
All came from Kent Thiry, the former chief executive officer of DaVita, one of the largest kidney care companies in the country. This was not the first time he gave big to a ballot initiative aimed at tweaking the nitty-gritty details of how Colorado functions. Nor will it be the last.
Thiry has given at least $5.9 million to Colorado ballot measures since 2011 and all of them won, according to a KHN review of Colorado campaign finance data.
In the final weeks before the Nov. 3 election, supporters of a down-in-the-weeds
effort to overturn a tax law in Colorado received a cascade of big checks, for a grand total of more than $2 million.
All came from Kent Thiry, the former CEO of DaVita, one of the
largest kidney care companies in the country. This was not the first time he donated big to a ballot initiative aimed at tweaking the nitty-gritty details of how Colorado functions. Nor will it be the last.
Thiry has
given at least $5.9 million to Colorado ballot measures since 2011 and all of them won, according to a KHN review of Colorado campaign finance data. According to data from the