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John Carson

State Senate District 30

Running in 2026: State Senate District 30 (June 30) · State Senate District 30 (November 3)

In the Legislature

Senate District 30 R · 1,698 floor votes this session, 0% not voting

Committees they vote in: Judiciary · Health & Human Services · Business, Labor, & Technology

Bills they lead: 31 (19 became law) — HB25-1184, HB25-1295, HB26-1052, HB26-1242, HB26-1252, HB26-1263, HB26-1315, HB26-1416, SB25-085, SB25-133, SB25-172, SB25-281 …

Bills their donors lobbied on

Bills they voted on (latest floor vote) on which a lobbyist's client that gave to their campaign, or gave them a gift, took a position: the largest first, with the position the lobbyist reported.

Bill	Their vote	Clients that lobbied on it, their position, and what they gave
HB26-1111 Pesticide Product Disposal & Container Recycling	No 2026-05-08	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($450 campaign); Howes Wolf monitoring ($300 campaign)
SB25-038 Wildlife Damage Protection of Personal Information	Aye 2025-02-05	Colorado Cattlemen's Association supporting ($450 campaign)
SB25-039 Agricultural Buildings Exempt from Energy Use Requirements	Aye 2025-03-12	Colorado Cattlemen's Association supporting ($450 campaign)
HB25-1053 Landowner Immunity for Emergency Access to Property	Aye 2025-03-03	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($450 campaign)
HB25-1283 Wild Horse Project Management & Immunocontraception	No 2025-04-21	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($450 campaign)
HB25-1180 Prohibiting Pet Animal Sales in Public Spaces	Aye 2025-04-14	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($450 campaign)
SB25-283 Funding Water Conservation Board Projects	No 2025-04-23	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($450 campaign)
SB25-049 Continue Wildlife Habitat Stamp Program	No 2025-03-31	Colorado Cattlemen's Association opposing ($450 campaign)
HB25-1332 State Trust Lands Conservation & Recreation Work Group	No 2025-05-06	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($450 campaign)
HB25-1131 Eliminate Student Cap at Colorado State University's Veterinary Program	Aye 2025-03-07	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($450 campaign)
SB25-003 Semiautomatic Firearms & Rapid-Fire Devices	No 2025-03-28	Colorado Cattlemen's Association opposing ($450 campaign)
SB25-005 Worker Protection Collective Bargaining	No 2025-02-18	Colorado Cattlemen's Association opposing ($450 campaign)
HB25-1203 Misbranding Cultivated Meat Products as Meat	Aye 2025-03-26	Colorado Cattlemen's Association supporting ($450 campaign)
HB25-1034 Changes to Dangerous Dog Statute	Aye 2025-02-19	Colorado Cattlemen's Association opposing ($450 campaign)
HB25-1023 Local Government Review of Fencing Projects	No 2025-04-23	Colorado Cattlemen's Association opposing ($450 campaign)
HB25-1121 Permanent Trailer Registration	Aye 2025-05-05	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($450 campaign)
HB25-1082 Qualified Individuals Death Certificates	Aye 2025-04-30	5280 Strategies monitoring ($450 campaign)
SB25-053 Protect Wild Bison	No 2025-04-17	Colorado Cattlemen's Association opposing ($450 campaign)
HB25-1285 Veterinary Workforce Requirements	No 2025-04-09	Colorado Cattlemen's Association supporting ($450 campaign)
SB25-168 Prevention of Wildlife Trafficking	Aye 2025-04-14	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($450 campaign)
SB25-149 Local Government Duties Equestrian Protections	No 2025-03-19	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($450 campaign)
SB25-174 Sunset Outfitters & Guides	Aye 2025-04-22	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($450 campaign)
SB25-176 Sunset Commodity Handler & Farm Products Act	Aye 2025-03-31	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($450 campaign)
SB25-026 Adjusting Certain Tax Expenditures	No 2025-05-06	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($450 campaign)
HB25-1311 Deductions for Net Sports Betting Proceeds	No 2025-05-06	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($450 campaign)
SB25-040 Future of Severance Taxes & Water Funding Task Force	Aye 2025-05-05	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($450 campaign)
HB25-1009 Vegetative Fuel Mitigation	No 2025-03-11	Colorado Cattlemen's Association opposing ($450 campaign)
HB25-1029 Municipal Authority over Certain Land	No 2025-03-07	Colorado Cattlemen's Association opposing ($450 campaign)
SB25-128 Agricultural Worker Service Providers Access Private Property	Aye 2025-03-07	Colorado Cattlemen's Association supporting ($450 campaign)
SB26-010 Agricultural Property Tax Definitions	Aye 2026-02-03	Colorado Cattlemen's Association monitoring ($450 campaign)

Colorado property

$824,349 at the county assessors' values, 1 parcel we matched to the property on their disclosures.

Kind	County	Assessor's value
home	Douglas	$824,349

The county assessor's actual value (the 2025 reappraisal, an estimate of market value in mid-2024), from the state's parcel records. We match parcels by the owner's name where their office or race is, or by the legal description or address on their disclosure; we don't show addresses, parcel numbers or co-owners. Property held in a name we can't connect to them isn't here.

Personal Financial Disclosures

Income listed: up to $709,994; debts: up to $809,994 on their latest disclosure with entries: the top of each range they selected, added up (the form asks for ranges, not amounts; a range with no top counts at its figure).

Statement	Filed	What it lists
2025 Annual State Senate District 30	2025-12-31	6 income sources, 1 sources of compensation, 3 assets, 4 colorado property, 1 state-regulated businesses, 6 debts
2025 update (amendment) State Senate District 30	2025-01-13	7 income sources, 1 sources of compensation, 3 assets, 2 colorado property, 3 state-regulated businesses, 6 debts

Findings

Context Lobbying

65 bills they voted on were lobbied by donors to their campaign ($1,200 from 3 clients)

Clients of professional lobbyists that gave to their 2026 campaign took positions on 65 bills they voted on (their latest floor vote). The largest: Colorado Cattlemen's Association ($450); 5280 Strategies ($450); Howes Wolf ($300). Where those donors clearly supported or opposed a bill, their vote went the donors' way on 26 of 28. Two public records read together: it doesn't mean either one caused the other.

What to check

The bills and each client's position (Bills their donors lobbied on, on their page).
Most lobbied bills draw clients on both sides; a vote with one donor can be a vote against another.

Rule: Bills their donors lobbied on

How this rule works

Context Late or missing

Their 2025 annual disclosure is dated January 13, 2025, after the January 10 deadline

As a member of the General Assembly, they file a disclosure by January 10 each year. The first we found for 2025 in TRACER's Document Search is dated January 13, 2025, 3 days after the deadline.

What to check

Whether they took office after January 10 that year (an appointment or a new judgeship).
The document's date in TRACER is the date it was received or entered.

Rule: An annual disclosure after January 10, or none found

“The following state officials must file a PFD by January 10th each year 24-6-202(1), C.R.S.”Form CPF-13 (Rev. 06/2026), instructions: Annual Filing Requirements ✓ quoted from the saved copy · how this rule works

Campaign money: State Senate District 30

$142,892itemized, 412 contributions

$36,500from the candidate (incl. loans)

Where their outside money comes from

47%52%

IndividualsBusinessesTrade, professional and issue groupsLabor unionsTribal governmentsPolitical partiesOther candidates and officeholders

Plus $4,085 of their own money and from their earlier campaigns' committees. Compare with all state candidates →

How it was spent: $112,607

Advertising$56,328

Consultants and professional services$47,826

Miscellaneous$3,021

Food and meals$1,737

Office Equipment & Supplies$1,178

Bank Fees$1,119

Fundraising Expenses$837

Rent & Utilities$393

Other$167

Largest payees: ILO STUDIOS, LLC $20,000 Consultants and professional services · MAILING SERVICES INC. $17,894 Advertising · IHEART MEDIA $15,000 Advertising · VOTERVAC - DIVISION OF RED SURFBOARD LLC $15,000 Advertising · ROB O-REGAN, CONSULTANT $11,918 Consultants and professional services · ROB O'REGAN $10,908 Consultants and professional services · META $5,203 Advertising · EQUALLY YOLKED FITNESS, LLC $3,000 Consultants and professional services

Expenditures their committee reported to TRACER over the election cycle, by the type the committee gave; a consultant's payments to others (ads, mail) show under the consultant.

Top contributors	Type	Total
APARTMENT ASSOCIATION OF METRO DENVER SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Denver	Small Donor Committee	$6,200
COLORADO STATE SHOOTING ASSOCIATION SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Colorado Springs	Small Donor Committee	$6,200
REALTOR SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE (RSDC) Englewood	Small Donor Committee	$6,200
COLORADO MEDICAL SOCIETY SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Denver	Small Donor Committee	$6,000
JOHN CARSON Attorney/Legal · CHERRY CREEK MORTGAGE · Greenwood Village	Individual	$4,084.55
COPIC SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Denver	Small Donor Committee	$4,000
COLORADANS FOR COMMON SENSE - SMALL DONOR CMTE Burlington	Small Donor Committee	$3,000
HEALTHIER COLORADO SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Denver	Small Donor Committee	$2,000
COLORADANS FOR COLORADO Denver	Small Donor Committee	$1,500
LINCOLN CLUB OF COLORADO SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Denver	Small Donor Committee	$1,500
CAREPOINT HEALTH Greenwood Village	Small Donor Committee	$1,000
CHERRY CREEK REPUBLICAN WOMEN SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Englewood	Small Donor Committee	$1,000
HOMES FOR ALL COLORADOANS COMMITTEE Centennial	Small Donor Committee	$1,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHAPTER OF ASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS SMALL DONOR Centennial	Small Donor Committee	$1,000
DANIEL JABLAN Consultant · CHERRY POINT STRATEGIES · Aurora	Individual	$500

Committees: CARSON FOR STATE SENATE. From the Secretary of State's TRACER bulk files.

Outside spending for and against them

$1,046,614spent supporting them

$75,894spent opposing them

Spender		Amount
SENATE MAJORITY FUND general · notices in TRACER	for	$497,862
LOWER ENERGY COSTS COLORADO IEC general · notices in TRACER	for	$273,594
COLORADANS FOR ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNMENT general · notices in TRACER	for	$186,238
SOUTHERN COLORADO BUSINESS ACTION general · notices in TRACER	for	$88,097
ALL TOGETHER COLORADO general · notices in TRACER	against	$68,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD VOTES COLORADO INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURE COMMITTEE general · notices in TRACER	against	$7,894
NRA POLITICAL VICTORY FUND - IE COMMITTEE general · notices in TRACER	for	$822

Independent expenditures from the 48-hour notices, 2026. The candidate doesn't control them. One that names several candidates is split evenly among them.

Their donors also gave to

Their largest donors who also funded other 2026 state candidates.

Donor	To them	Candidates funded
APARTMENT ASSOCIATION OF METRO DENVER SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Group or PAC · Denver	$6,200	42
REALTOR SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE (RSDC) Group or PAC · Englewood	$6,200	56
COLORADO STATE SHOOTING ASSOCIATION SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Group or PAC · Colorado Springs	$6,200	9
COLORADO MEDICAL SOCIETY SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Group or PAC · Denver	$6,000	63
COPIC SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Group or PAC · Denver	$4,000	56
COLORADANS FOR COMMON SENSE - SMALL DONOR CMTE Group or PAC · Burlington	$3,000	15
HEALTHIER COLORADO SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Group or PAC · Denver	$2,000	40
LINCOLN CLUB OF COLORADO SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Group or PAC · Denver	$1,500	11
COLORADANS FOR COLORADO Group or PAC · Denver	$1,500	2
HOMES FOR ALL COLORADOANS COMMITTEE Group or PAC · Centennial	$1,000	18
CAREPOINT HEALTH Group or PAC · Greenwood Village	$1,000	11
CHERRY CREEK REPUBLICAN WOMEN SMALL DONOR COMMITTEE Group or PAC · Englewood	$1,000	13
ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHAPTER OF ASSOCIATED BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS SMALL DONOR Group or PAC · Centennial	$1,000	2
DANIEL JABLAN Lobbyist, CHERRY POINT STRATEGIES · Aurora	$500	14
COMMITTEE FOR PHYSICIAN ANESTHESIA CARE Group or PAC · Centennial	$450	32