Boulder City Council election was not ‘billionaire-backed’ Let’s set the record straight: no recent Boulder City Council candidate was “billionaire-backed” or bankrolled by large PACs, corporations or oil and gas interests. Yet this apparent fiction continues to circulate, most recently in campaign Instagram posts by Councilmembers Nicole Speer and Taishya Adams. Speer first drove this storyline in August, warning that “corporate-backed PACs” tied to oil and gas, restaurants and landlords were targeting Boulder’s recent election. After the votes were in, she doubled down, claiming the election included a “flood of money,” “weaponized spending,” and that Boulder was in a “class...