Brita’s Budget Fantasy vs. FEC Reality: Time for a Financial Intervention

By someone who can do math (unlike the Colorado GOP leadership)

Well, Patriots, the Colorado GOP’s latest FEC report is in, and it’s exactly the train wreck we all expected. Brita Horn’s magical $2.4 million budget is looking less like a strategic plan and more like a M. Night Shyamalan movie script: totally detached from reality, dripping with horror, and ultimately a bad use of everyone’s time AND MONEY!

Let’s get to the numbers, shall we?

Between April 1 and June 30, 2025, the Colorado GOP under Brita’s “leadership” raised a total of $75,950. Now that might sound decent, until you realize that $30,000 of it came from just three people maxing out at $10,000 each. That means Brita’s team actually scraped together only $45,950 in real donations, about $15,316 a month. That would be adorable if we were running a bake sale, not a political party with a multi-million-dollar budget.

Meanwhile, the party is burning through cash like a Democrat slush fund from U.S.A.I.D. on a D.C. taxpayer-funded junket. Legal fees alone? A whopping $114,813 in just three months. That’s over $38,000 per month, and $10,000 of that was already paid to Brita’s personal lawyer, now conveniently rebranded as the “State GOP’s” lawyer.

And here’s the kicker: the party is already out of money. According to their own FEC report, they have just $84,531 cash on hand, but liabilities of a staggering $104,813 to none other than the Chair’s long-time personal attorney. That puts the Colorado GOP in the red by $20,282. Yes, you read that right, we’re operating at a deficit before the campaign season even heats up. This isn’t just bad management, it’s financial malpractice. In the business world, this operation would be tagged as “an ongoing concern."

Let me be blunt: this reeks.

It begs the question: are we, the hard-working conservatives who built this movement, now footing the bill for Brita’s personal political grudges? Because if any of those fees are tied to her campaign to oust the previous officers before she was even elected, then we’re not just being used, we’re being fleeced.

Here’s what needs to happen next, and fast:

· The Executive Committee must demand a real, transparent fundraising plan. No more wishful thinking, no more vague PowerPoint dreams. Show us the money, and where it’s coming from.

· The party must provide a full, itemized legal billing breakdown, line by line, hour by hour, so we can determine whether the Colorado GOP is funding a political party or underwriting a personal vendetta.

· This $2.4 million budget fantasy needs to be brought back to earth. The revenue numbers don’t support it. Period.

· All Colorado GOP salaries, benefits, and other non-essential expenses should be placed on hold until no less than 40% of the total budget funds are raised and banked (approximately $960,000.00).

Let’s be clear: this is not about personalities. It’s about fiscal responsibility, transparency, and basic competence. If Brita Horn wants to spend millions of dollars, she better start raising millions, without maxing out a few donors and calling it success.

And to every grassroots conservative still considering a donation to the state party? Don’t. Give directly to candidates you trust, where your money actually does something, like win elections.

Because until the Colorado GOP starts acting like stewards of our resources instead of stewards of someone’s ego, they don’t deserve your trust. Or your check.

Thank you, Anna Ferguson, for helping to assemble this data!