Denver campaign to save flavored tobacco ban gets $2.2 million more from Michael Bloomberg

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg has written more checks totaling million to help buttress the campaign to save Denver s flavored tobacco ban according to a new finance description Bloomberg donated that amount directly to the pro-Referendum campaign during the last two weeks of October as Tuesday s voting process approaches The description filed late Friday for the supporters campaign Denver Kids vs Big Tobacco also included a in-kind donation from Bloomberg cited for research Then-Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg campaigns and opens his Denver field office on Feb Photo by Andy Cross The Denver Post The former New York City mayor a staunch opponent of the tobacco industry is now responsible for just shy of million of the million in fundraising by the Denver campaign which has lately aired TV ads Much of the rest of its promotion has come from the Tobacco-Free Kids Action Fund according to Denver s campaign finance dashboard The Bloomberg money has dwarfed fundraising by the main opposition campaign nearly -to- That group called Citizen Power has raised including during the Oct - period covered by the reports due Friday A leader of that campaign previously characterized the fight as a David vs Goliath story The opponents filed the petition to put Referendum on the ballot in hopes of overturning an ordinance passed by the City Council late last year The ballot measure asks Denver voters whether to retain the ordinance which bans sales within city limits of the bulk flavored tobacco and nicotine products from flavored vapes to menthol cigarettes Because of the way it s worded a yes vote would keep the ordinance and a no vote which is urged by the petitioners would repeal it Colorado voter guide Stories and explainers for the electoral contest This file is auto-generated function d l use strict l querySelector d addEventListener undefined typeof URL d wp d wp d wp receiveEmbedMessage d wp receiveEmbedMessage function e var t e evidence if t t secret t message t value a-zA-Z - test t secret for var s r n a l querySelectorAll 'iframe data-secret ' t secret ' ' o l querySelectorAll 'blockquote data-secret ' t secret ' ' c new RegExp https i i i