Daniel J. Kopelman registered Political Live Wires (PLW) as a trade name on January 1, 2004 according to documents filed at the CO SOS's office. His company's web site -- PoliticalLiveWires.com -- is no longer available. However, the image below was obtained by ePluribus Media before Kopelman took the site down and provides a partial list of the services he was offering:

Kopelman also provided his resume on PLW's site, which explicitly stated his duties in Coffman's office:

COLORADANS FOR COFFMAN
According to Coffman spokesperson Dana Williams, the Secretary felt it was "inappropriate for an employee to be both overseeing and selling voter lists" and that his office "was unaware" of Kopelman's GOP campaign company.

However, last November 20, Coloradans for Coffman -- the Secretary's 2006 campaign committee -- paid $1500 to Political Live Wires for "consulting for 2006," according to a campaign finance report filed by the committee. PLW was also paid $1,810.15 for "software" on Aug. 9, 2005.^[1]

In addition, on several occasions during the campaign, Coffman's committee paid Kopelman directly for "software expenses."

Kopelman's precise employment in 2006 is somewhat unclear. That year, he apparently worked as a systems analyst for Coffman, then the Colo. State Treasurer, and did political consulting and software engineering both personally and with PLW for Coffman's winning SOS campaign.

But in an odd twist, in 2006 Kopelman also found time to run for Arapahoe County treasurer.

His campaign was publicly supported by Coffman, as well as by U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) and retired U.S. Sen. Bill Armstrong (R-CO).

In the 2006 Arapahoe County Fair program, an ad paid for by Coloradans for Kopelman contained the following two endorsements:

Colorado Treasurer Mike Coffman
"Dan Kopelman managed major increases in efficiency for the State Treasurers Great Colorado Payback program. He has the skills necessary to do a great job as Arapahoe County Treasurer."

Congressman Tom Tancredo
"Dan was instrumental in taking my
Congressional offices into the 21st century.
His policy and technical skills were an
invaluable asset. He will be an outstanding
Treasurer for Arapahoe County."

Kopelman lost in the August Republican primary by 33 votes. But in January 2007, Coffman re-hired his former system's analyst at the Secretary of State's office, as an IT manager working on state compliance with the 2002 federal Help America Vote Act.^[2]

Kopelman's Politics
Coffman may not have known that his technology manager running the state-wide voter database was currently selling voter lists.

But Colorado's Secretary of State certainly knows Dan Kopelman, having hired him on many occasions for both state government jobs and campaign work. And placing a known GOP campaign entrepreneur in charge of state voter data it is at least an issue of propriety.

Kopelman's political ideology is no secret.

He is a past president of both the Denver Metro Young Republicans and the Colorado Jewish Republicans, and a graduate of the Republican Leadership Program of the Rockies.

And before it was scrubbed, Kopelman's PLW web site provided "useful resources" -- links to sites like The DrudgeReport and Rush Limbaugh -- and was streaming 'headlines' from CNSNews.org.

At the current time, Coffman's office has informed ePluribus Media that they are now investigating Mr. Kopelman's activities, but declined further comment.

UPDATE
At 4:30 EST, Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman issued ePluribus Media the following statement:

"Dan Kopelman took a leave of absence last fall from his job at Treasury to help with my Secretary of State’s campaign. He asked to be paid for his time under the name of the entity in question [Political Live Wires]. I was not aware that he was engaged in soliciting the sale of voter lists or that he maintained a website. The voter lists for my Secretary of State’s campaign were purchased from Tactical Data Solutions. The individual from Tactical Data Solutions who the campaign interfaced with was Alan Farina who can be reached at (970) XXX-XXXX.

1. Available online from the CO SOS Elections Center.

2. "Musgrave running hard toward 2008; Coffman staffs up." Dan Haley. Jan. 29, 2007. The Denver Post.

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