March 02, 2012 03:43 PM UTC

BUSTED: Scott Tipton Needs to Listen

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• by: ClubTwitty

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So the Denver paper has a story about Congressman Tipton’s violation of ethic rules when he took public monies to fund his partisan campaign event in Avon.

In the article his staff claim it was an honest mistake.  Honest, perhaps, stupid as well.  It should be pretty obvious that when you are using public resources to campaign in a district that you do not represent (but want to after the next election) that you are violating US law.  

In addition, Mr. Tipton was on notice:  I posted this diary a day before this campaign event, and it was front paged.  

As I noted then:

Mr. Tipton, the candidate, of course has reason to be in Avon pressing the flesh, after all he will be running there–just not on the tax payers’ dime, or so one might think.  Once again, Mr. Tipton–fiscal conservatism for thee, but not for me, taxpayer money after all, is there to spend.

https://www.coloradopols.com/di…

The congressman could have cancelled the event, and refunded the money grafted from taxpayers.  

It was ignored by Mr. Tipton, and a GOP apologist piled on accusing me of selective diarying because I didn’t post on Mr. Polis’ visit to Longmont (although that was clearly noted in the very article he linked to in making his ‘case’ that this was paid for as a campaign expense  and not on the back of hard-pressed American taxpayers…).  

The highest paid staff, funneling taxpayer dollars into private campaign events…

For someone who once ran on cutting government in half, he sure is doing his part to on spending what he can.