State Bill Colorado, so everybody’s clear:
House Speaker Frank McNulty, newly engaged to a Capitol lobbyist, intends to be mindful when casting votes on bills on which his fiance may be lobbying.
Shannon Csotty works for the Kenney Group.
“I am sure he will not put himself in a situation where there is a conflict of interest,” communications director Randy Hildreth said today in an e-mail to State Bill.
It was reported over the weekend that Colorado House Speaker Frank McNulty had recently become engaged to Shannon Csotty, a lobbyist for the Kenney Group–we’ve heard, as was discussed in an undersourced diary a few weeks ago, that McNulty and Csotty took a vacation together to Costa Rica after the election (well worth the expense if you haven’t been).
While we have no interest in details of McNulty’s personal life, it’s relieving to see him swearing off potentially conflicted situations right out of the gate–we can confirm that Ms. Csotty’s long-standing representation of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), and the important health care exchange legislation the General Assembly must pass this year, had given a number of interested parties reason for concern.
And of course, everybody will be making sure now too.
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positions relative the gays and lesbians, I certainly hope he was “moral” in his relations with his fiancee while in Costa Rica. Separate rooms, Frank?
that’s lobbied by anybody in the Kenney group, not just his fiance.
Legislators enrolled in PERA should abstain from voting on PERA legislation.
And legislators that are lawyers should disclose all of their clients (and their firm’s clients) and abstain from voting on legislation where there’s an interest.
And legislators that are teachers…
You get the point.
I breathe air, therefore it would be a direct conflict of interest for me to vote on any air quality legislation.
Jackass.
We bust them when they do something wrong, not when there’s good gossip.
This is like hate speech laws. Actions are crimes, not speech.
Nothing to see here, yet.
Dean probably shouldn’t be it.