Watchdog group Colorado Ethics Watch today filed a Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) request on the Senate Minority Office, asking for email records in connection with alleged misuse of the state-funded office’s update list on behalf of Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry’s gubernatorial campaign. The request asks for “any e-mail contact list for the Senate Minority Office, any correspondence reflecting the transmission of any e-mail contact list for the Senate Minority Office to any person not employed by the Senate Minority Office in 2009, and all documents referring to any person’s candidacy for governor in the 2010 election.”
Brief statement and a link to the request document after the jump–says Ethics Watch, “A Denver Post report raised suspicions that the Penry for Governor campaign may have received an e-mail list from the SMO, whose budget is paid for with government funds. Colorado law prohibits state resources from being used to promote candidates for public office.”
ETHICS WATCH SEEKS RECORDS REGARDING POSSIBLE GOVERNMENT CONTRIBUTION TO PENRY CAMPAIGNOctober 5, 2009
Today, Ethics Watch filed a Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) request with the Colorado Senate Minority Office (SMO), seeking records regarding the office’s e-mail contact list. A Denver Post report raised suspicions that the Penry for Governor campaign may have received an e-mail list from the SMO, whose budget is paid for with government funds. Colorado law prohibits state resources from being used to promote candidates for public office.
The Denver Post reported that nonpartisan state legislative employees received e-mails at their state government accounts from the Penry campaign. The Post report raised questions how these employees ended up on a campaign e-mail list. While sending e-mails to such accounts is not illegal, Section 1-45-117 of the Colorado Revised Statutes prohibits state agencies from making contributions to campaigns. Ethics Watch’s CORA is intended to determine whether the SMO was the source of the e-mail list.
Ethics Watch will post the response from the SMO when it is received.
Related Documents
CORA to Senate Minority Office – 47.76 KB
October 5, 2009
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Mo’ Freedom! Mo’ Money!
Be the first one on your block to see Josh’s fundraising totals!!!
Can Josh promise competent government? Not so sure, but clearly his ‘new media’ machine is well ahead of the old guy’s, who are still trying to figure out how to read a map and use the Google image search thingy.
He gets the TXT numbers of everyone interested in the campaign. And he builds buzz in the process.
Isn’t this exactly the means that Obama used, during 2008, to obtain contacts and build his campaign?
Is this Penry’s message?
He’s Colorado’s version of Obama?
Without the hope part, of course.
Anybody have the skills to produce “Obama-style” campaign posters for Penry, with the themes of “Nope” and “Cringe” ?
But that’s great.
What pithy one word slogans can we come up with for McInnis? Implode?
I also wonder which we could use for Norton, Clidwell, etc…
to make my own!
to make my own!
http://obamiconme.pastemagazin…
There are others around too.
Had some hilarious ones.
…I say, Who the hell cares.
of politicians with no respect for the law over the last eight+ years.
The law is important.