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Hopefully, another corrupt Anti-Constitution Communist will get the boot. Keep your fingers crossed. Go get em Colorado!
An ethics investigation opened into Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, who is accused of wrongly allowing the Democratic Governor’s Association to pay for his expenses at a conference in Aspen last year.
Conservative group Compass Colorado filed the complaint with the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission last year, alleging that by allowing the group to pay for his attendance costs, Hickenlooper violated a state amendment preventing elected officials from taking gifts valued at more than $53.
During a procedural hearing Monday, Hickenlooper’s attorneys argued he did nothing wrong and that the expenses — $350 for the attendance fee and $425 per night in a hotel for two nights – are exempted under the amendment.
The law only prohibits gifts of more than $53 if the person making the contribution isn’t getting something of equal or greater value in return.
“The measure of benefit received by the DGA — in terms of the conference participation and policy expertise shared by its governor members — in return for the DGA’s provision of hotel accommodations to them makes the calculation of adequate consideration not even a close call,” Jack Finlaw, Hickenlooper’s chief legal counsel, argued in a letter to the commission sent in December...
Read more: Colorado Democratic governor faces ethics probe | The Daily Caller
An ethics investigation opened into Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, who is accused of wrongly allowing the Democratic Governor’s Association to pay for his expenses at a conference in Aspen last year.
Conservative group Compass Colorado filed the complaint with the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission last year, alleging that by allowing the group to pay for his attendance costs, Hickenlooper violated a state amendment preventing elected officials from taking gifts valued at more than $53.
During a procedural hearing Monday, Hickenlooper’s attorneys argued he did nothing wrong and that the expenses — $350 for the attendance fee and $425 per night in a hotel for two nights – are exempted under the amendment.
The law only prohibits gifts of more than $53 if the person making the contribution isn’t getting something of equal or greater value in return.
“The measure of benefit received by the DGA — in terms of the conference participation and policy expertise shared by its governor members — in return for the DGA’s provision of hotel accommodations to them makes the calculation of adequate consideration not even a close call,” Jack Finlaw, Hickenlooper’s chief legal counsel, argued in a letter to the commission sent in December...
Read more: Colorado Democratic governor faces ethics probe | The Daily Caller
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