Tag: Colorado Ethics Watch
Watchdogs: Ethics panel challenging ‘all legal boundaries’ to meet in secret
A nonprofit watchdog group says Colorado's top ethics panel should set an example for government transparency rather than "challenging all legal boundaries" by "conducting official business in secret." Colorado Ethics Watch decried how the state Independent Ethics Commission "stealthily conducts business" in a response to Wednesday's Colorado Independent story detailing legal questions about the panel's penchant for meeting behind closed doors.
Political payback? Posting of McInnis 527 comment could be conservative GOP...
Former six-term Republican congressman Scott McInnis, who’s all but announced he intends to run for the governor’s office in 2010, may be getting some payback for taking on the conservative base of the state party just before the 2008 election.
Shires’ Taxpayers League fined $7,150 for GarCo race electioneering
A judge Wednesday fined a political advocacy group headed by GOP operative Scott Shires $7,150 for failing to file an electioneering communications report on $2,300 spent helping to successfully defeat a Democratic Garfield County commissioner candidate.
Shires-backed tax group admits to campaign-law violation in Garfield County
A political advocacy group headed by GOP operative Scott Shires confessed Monday to violating campaign finance laws by not filing an electioneering communications report last fall and possibly skewing a close commissioner’s race in gas-rich Garfield County.
Ethics group rips panel’s decision clearing Coffman, says it might appeal
An ethics watchdog group on Tuesday slammed the long-awaited decision by a state ethics panel that cleared U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman of wrongdoing when he served as Colorado secretary of state, saying the Independent Ethics Commission shirked its duty to investigate allegations of official misconduct and tied the hands of the group that brought the charges.
Coffman hails exoneration by ethics panel, blasts ‘failed partisan scheme’
In a withering response to the unanimous decision handed down Tuesday morning by a state ethics panel clearing him of misconduct charges, U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman castigated the nonprofit organization that filed the complaint with Colorado's Independent Ethics Commission more than a year ago.
BREAKING: Ethics panel throws out complaint against Coffman
The Colorado Independent Ethics Commission dismissed a complaint Tuesday morning against U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, who was charged by an ethics watchdog group with having conflicts of interest when he was secretary of state two years ago.
State ethics panel set to meet yet again Monday on Coffman...
U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman could finally learn early next week whether a state panel has decided he acted properly or violated Colorado ethical guidelines. The Colorado Independent Ethics Commission is meeting in a telephone conference Monday morning to discuss a complaint against the former Colorado secretary of state, who faces conflict-of-interest charges stemming from his time running the state’s top elections office two years ago.
It's the third secret session the panel has held on the complaint since Coffman testified at an all-day hearing more than a month ago.
Colorado ethics panel huddles to prep decision on Coffman complaint
A state ethics commission is meeting in a telephone conference Tuesday morning to prepare a ruling on a complaint charging former Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman with acting unethically when he ran the state’s top elections office two years ago. The panel could issue its decision at any time between Tuesday afternoon and its next scheduled meeting on Monday.
Ethics panel set to hand down ruling on Coffman allegations
A state ethics panel plans to release its ruling on or before April 6 on a complaint charging former Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman with acting unethically when he ran the state’s top elections office two years ago.