FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact: Cindy Knox
720-323-1558
cigcolorado@yahoo.com

April 12, 2006

Citizens Demand Trailhead Investigation:
AG Cancels Speech on "Importance of Compliance with Our Campaign Laws"

Members of Citizens for Integrity in Government (CIG) will assemble tomorrow, Thursday April 13, at 12 noon at the Colorado History museum at 1300 Broadway in Denver to demand that Colorado Attorney General John Suthers conduct a proper investigation of the Trailhead Group.

Suthers was scheduled to speak at the Colorado History museum at lunch event organized by the Independence Institute. The topic was the
"Importance of Compliance with our Campaign Laws." Given the strong
appearance of a conflict of interest due to the AG's refusal to investigate Trailhead (a group whose donors also contributed to his campaign) CIG has decided to highlight the hypocrisy inherent in Suthers' topic by assembling outside the museum.

However, after preparing to protest the event, CIG learned just this afternoon that the Independence Institute has decided to cancel its event with Attorney General Suthers. So far, no explanation has been offered.

Since we cannot deliver our message to him as originally planned, CIG members will walk from the museum to the attorney general's office at 1525 Sherman Street, across from the State Capitol, to personally deliver a petition demanding that the attorney general's office conduct a thorough investigation of Trailhead.

CIG is a recently formed citizens' group whose members are concerned about the use of malicious, dirty, possibly illegal, campaign tactics this election year.

"We are tired of the people's government being hijacked by slanderous and dirty campaign tactics. Clean campaign reform has to begin somewhere. It's time we take a stand to put integrity back in our government," said CIG spokeswoman Cindy Knox.

CIG's members are also concerned that requests to investigate and enforce Colorado's Campaign laws have gone unheeded, and summarily dismissed. Our members are troubled by the fact that the Attorney General has received campaign contributions from some of the same donors to Trailhead. Will the AG conduct an investigation into Trailhead that may implicate some of his own campaign donors? It appears not.

CITIZENS FOR INTEGRITY IN GOVERNMENT CALL ON ATTORNEY GENERAL SUTHERS TO INVESTIGATE TRAILHEAD AND ENFORCE THE CAMPAIGN LAWS OF COLORADO.