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January 28, 2011 03:40 AM UTC

Ethics Watch CORAs Employment Agreements for Gessler, Stapleton

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  • by: Colorado Pols

From a release this afternoon:

Today, Colorado Ethics Watch, a nonpartisan, nonprofit legal watchdog group, sent Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) requests in writing to State Treasurer Walker Stapleton, Secretary of State Scott Gessler, and Attorney General John Suthers requesting information relating to the outside employment of Walker Stapleton while he is State Treasurer and Scott Gessler while he is Secretary of State, specifically any employment agreement or consulting contract.  Stapleton, Gessler and Suthers have three days to provide the requested documents according to state law.

“There’s no question that the planned moonlighting by Scott Gessler has raised serious questions about conflict of interest, but we don’t want to lose sight of potentially serious conflicts possible in Walker Stapleton’s outside employment as well,” said Luis Toro, director of Colorado Ethics Watch.  “At the very least, the public has a right to know the terms of both arrangements.  When employees who work for the Treasurer or Secretary of State want to get a second job, they need permission from their boss.  In this case, the Treasurer’s boss and the Secretary of State’s boss is the Colorado voter.  As the employers of Treasurer Stapleton and Secretary of State Gessler, the voters deserve to know the terms of their outside employment arrangements.”

Full release, and links to Ethics Watch’s Colorado Open Records Act request letters here.

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8 thoughts on “Ethics Watch CORAs Employment Agreements for Gessler, Stapleton

  1. I think the issue is an actual issue, but…

    What do they think the written agreements will say?  Hackstaff is an honest-to-god, Colorado law firm.  I’m so sure that they actual wrote a contract stipulating something other than what Gessler has released.  “Under the terms of our new agreement, SoS Gessler will give special consideration to, or completely ignore (whichever is appropriate) our clients.”

    Or maybe “we’ll expect you to do these unethical tasks.”  Come on.  No matter what the employment is dubiously categorized as any ethical or legal problem.  (That at this point it probably won’t even happen.)  Nothing in the agreement is going to change that.

    I also have to think that the numbers passed around are going to be more impressive to voters if they stay guesses.  Not that that matters anyway:  Gessler – making more than you.  Gessler’s other part-time job – makes more than you.

    Maybe the actual plan is to keep Gessler so busy doing this that he won’t have time for law?

    1. Regardless of what your presumptions about the answers might be.

      Sunlight is the best disinfectant.  What matters is what the REAL answers might be.

      Ethics Watch is doing important work here.  Let’s see what they find out.

  2. This is a good start, but why stop at only the employment agreements?

    Under CORA, we have the right to see all communications of any nature between these “public servants” and the private entities they’re moonlighting for. Unless they can prove – and they bear the burden – that any such communications are shielded from disclosure.

  3. Are FINALLY going to be released at the end of May. By the time the records are released, it will have been longer since the initial open records request was made than Palin was governor of Alaska!

    She had 25,000 PAGES of emails!

    And anyone wonders why she loves the Twitter?

  4. They are obviously part of the leftist machine to destroy American now.

    (What makes me sad is that there’s people out there that really believe this crap)

    1. …or with the enemy”

      — George W. Bush

      So, yes. If any organization is not actively promoting the radical right’s agenda (whatever it is at the moment), then that organization is exactly as you described it.

      I feel sad like you about the people who believe it. I also feel committed to opposing the powerful who promote it.

  5. from the business section of record…

    Dwayne Romero, the state’s new economic development chief, will continue working one day a week for his employer in Aspen, the most recent state official who has said he will moonlight.

    but don’t worry, Hick says:

    “we will get 45 or 50 hours a week out of him, and we get a discount.”

    May be true, but his timing could be better. Oi. let’s either pay these people more to begin with or start hiring the former city staff from Bell, CA.

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