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It’s becoming quite fashionable these days to file ethics complaints. From the Rocky Mountain News: Eleven Republicans in Democrat Angie Paccione’s legislative district in Fort Collins have asked for an ethics investigation into her campaign’s offer to introduce top fund-raisers on the state House floor. “The Colorado State House of Representatives is the people’s house, […]

The Rocky Mountain News has an interesting story today about how Colorado legislators aren’t entirely clear how ethics investigations and panels are supposed to proceed. That’s probably a good thing in one sense, because if they all had vast experience with these sort of investigations (this has only happened once before), we’d all be in […]

According to the Rocky Mountain News, House Minority Leader Joe Stengel is now under attack from some fellow Republicans who had been conspicuous in their silence on his overbilling for time worked outside of the legislature: Five constituents of House Minority Leader Joe Stengel on Tuesday formally requested an ethics investigation of his payroll billing […]

In case you missed it… The story about Rep. Joe Stengel’s excessive billing for time worked continues to get worse. As the Rocky Mountain News reported, Stengel was billing for work time even when he was on vacation in Hawaii. The Denver Post looked at a report from The National Journal analyzing voting records of […]

Both Republicans and Democrats are facing scandals involving two of their members but are handling the issue differently in public. House Minority Leader Joe Stengel billed taxpayers for working 240 out of 247 days last year — including an absurd claim that he was doing significant work while he was on vacation in Hawaii — […]

The Denver Post offers a roundup of yesterday’s discussion over the numerous immigration reform bills: Democratic lawmakers killed several Republican bills targeting illegal immigration Tuesday night, approving two modest proposals and indicating their support for a crackdown on state contractors that hire illegal workers. After more than eight hours of occasionally emotional testimony and debate, […]

In case you missed it… The Rocky Mountain News took a closer look at House Minority Leader Joe Stengel’s excessive billing of work hours outside of the legislative session and found that Stengel’s $24,000 bill is completely above and beyond any previous bill since 2000. Democrat Gary Lindstrom is the only other donkey opposing Bill […]

You’ve got to give House Minority Leader Joe Stengel this: He’ll defend his right to be wrong to the death. While Stengel didn’t technically break the law in billing taxpayers for working virtually every day last year, there’s a big difference between what you can do and what you should do. From the Rocky Mountain […]