There’s a hot hearing down in Arizona that hasn’t made its way to Colorado media…yet. A federal grand jury is hearing evidence against executives with the lurid Backpage.com website, which powers those raunchy classifieds in places like the Village Voice in New York City, in preparation for a potential indictment after a report alleged that “the website knowingly accepted ads offering sex with underage girls,” according to The Arizona Republic.
But who cares what happens to some folks in Arizona, right? Wrong. Backpage.com executives, Michael Lacey, James Larkin, Scott Spear, and John Brunst, as well as their wives, Margaret Larkin, Ellona Spear, and Mary Ann Brunst, were all max-out donors to the Colorado Senate Victory Fund, giving $88,200, or $12,600 each, in the 2014 election cycle. To put this in context, the $88,200 sent to Colorado was more than half of all of Backpage executives’ total...