MAGA Candidate Faces Questions Over Alleged Campaign Finance Filing
Key Takeaways
- •Colorado limits individual campaign contributions to $1,450 per candidate, while candidates may contribute unlimited amounts to their own campaigns.
- •A campaign filing identified Marx as the owner of an anonymous Wyoming LLC that paid his campaign $5,000 as a licensing fee.
- •Marx denies owning the LLC and says it sells merchandise and meetings with him, but he has not disclosed where the proceeds go.
- •Reporter Kyle Clark said the Marx campaign has not answered questions about the filing, the company’s profits, or the destination of supporters’ money.
- •The Colorado Democratic Party has highlighted broader criticism of Marx from Republican, media, and advocacy figures over his campaign and public comments.
Republican Colorado gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx is facing questions over campaign finance filings after reportedly suggesting that his campaign placed a $5,000 contribution from a limited liability company under his name to bypass contribution limits.
Marx, a far-right Republican, is challenging Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser in the 2026 governor’s race. A recent New York Times poll gives Weiser a 12 percent lead over Marx.
Kyle Clark, a reporter for Denver station 9NEWS KUSA, reported in a series of posts on X, X, X, and X that a new audio recording “suggests” Marx’s campaign filed someone else’s large contribution under Marx’s name to avoid campaign finance limits.
Clark wrote that Colorado’s individual contribution limit is $1,450 per campaign, while candidates face no limit when funding their own campaigns. According to Clark, Marx recently told supporters that his campaign had “put my name on” a $5,000 contribution from an LLC “to get the $5000 into the campaign account ...”
Marx has denied owning the LLC, saying it operates an online merchandise business that sells products and meetings with Marx for as much as $1,300. Marx has said the money is not going to him but has not said where it is going, according to Clark.
Clark said the issue came to light after reporters noticed an obscure campaign finance filing for a $5,000 licensing fee paid to the Marx campaign by an anonymous, Wyoming-based LLC. “The campaign’s filing identified Marx as the LLC’s owner,” Clark reported. “He’s denied all involvement.”
Clark also raised questions that he said the Marx campaign has not answered, including where supporters’ money is going, whether Marx or his LLC profits from the merchandise store, why the campaign filing identified the LLC as his, and whether the campaign falsely claimed ownership to permit the $5,000 contribution. Clark said Marx has avoided questions by appearing only with media outlets and interviewers who will not ask them. Marx has compared Clark’s campaign finance questions to “stalking” and described him as a “psycho trans person.”
Separately, in late August, the Colorado Democratic Party published an article describing what it called a “terrible, no good, very bad week for Republican Victor Marx.”
The party said that a senior Fox News columnist had criticized Marx in The Hill as an example of MAGA recklessness and extremism under Donald Trump. It also said Republican National Committee Chair Joe Gruters held an extended interview with CBS Colorado to support the GOP ticket, but struggled when asked about the national party’s support for Marx. Finally, the party said Marx’s comments about abortion, women, and the Black community were criticized by former state Representative Leslie Herod and advocates from COLOR, Cobalt, and Planned Parenthood, along with the Colorado Democratic Party’s executive director.
The source article is available from Alternet.
