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Power players: Jared Polis, Tim Gill, Pat Stryker top list of Colo. contributors

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Jared Polis

By SANDRA FISH and I-NEWS NETWORK

PUBLISHED: October 6, 2012 at 4:11 PM MDT

Corporations and billionaires — and their extravagant contributions to the presidential campaigns — have drawn the most national attention this year in terms of campaign financing. But in Colorado it is the same handful of wealthy Democrats and the labor unions continuing to play a steady hand.

Three Democrats, U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, software founder Tim Gill and philanthropist Pat Stryker, top the list of individual donors in an I-News Network analysis of federal and state contribution records for the past five years.

Change in the order is represented by the Republican SuperPac American Crossroads, led by Karl Rove among others, also spending lavishly in the state since 2010, when the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision made such giving possible.

But among individual givers, a Republican donor isn’t found until the No. 7 slot, where Joe Coors shows up spending heavily on his own 7th Congressional District campaign

11/10/2025

Power players: Jared Polis, Tim Gill, Pat Stryker top list of Colo. contributors

09/06/2025

In honor of this year’s Founders Day, Pat Stryker was recognized as the third recipient of the Founders Day Medal, which honors an individual or family that has had a significant, lasting impact on the university’s history and progress. The medal was presented to Stryker for her long-term, transformational support of the university’s academic and athletic programs. Her leadership has been essential to projects including the:

09/06/2025

On Feb. 10, Colorado State will honor the creation of the institution, the values that have sustained it and its mission of service through teaching, research and engagement with Founders Day celebrations. Events will take place at the State Capitol and on campus in Fort Collins.

05/29/2025

05/29/2025

Pat Stryker is the philanthropist granddaughter of Homer Stryker, who founded medical technology company Stryker in 1941. Her younger brother is Jon Lloyd Stryker, who is a more public figure than his sister. Combined, the Stryker siblings have given $3,850,000 to pro-Clinton super PACs.