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From the Rocky Mountain News: Former House Minority Leader Joe Stengel “discredited the reputation” of the legislature with his “excessive” billing for work in the off session, including while vacationing in Hawaii, an ethics committee has determined. The Littleton Republican charged taxpayers for 240 out of 247 non-session days last year “without regard for the […]

Former House Minority Leader Joe Stengel today responded to an ethics complaint stemming from the fact that he billed taxpayers for working 240 out of 247 possible days in 2005, which was 56 more days than anybody else had billed since former majority leader Doug Dean in 2000. Stengel still isn’t helping Republicans on this […]

After stubbornly refusing to admit wrongdoing for weeks after it was revealed that he had billed for more working hours than any other legislator in years — including billing for hours worked when was on vacation in Hawaii and taking the bar exam — Republican Rep. Joe Stengel today announced that he was resigning his […]

The Rocky Mountain News leads today with a series of stories about House Minority Leader Joe Stengel and Democratic Sen. Deanna Hanna’s respective indiscretions. As we wrote yesterday, Republicans were doing a much better job of spinning the Hanna story than Democrats were of piling on Stengel. It was starting to look like the Hanna […]

From the Rocky Mountain News: House Minority Leader Joe Stengel, under fire for billing taxpayers while he was on vacation, taking the bar exam and handling other matters, will write a $891 reimbursement check to the state this afternoon. The Littleton Republican billed Coloradans for working 240 out of 247 non-session days last year. He […]

Republican Rep. Joe Stengel delivered an accusatory speech yesterday on the first day of the legislative session that offers a glimpse into the GOP strategy heading into the 2006 elections. From The Rocky Mountain News: A legislative session predicted to be brimming with politics lived up to its billing Wednesday as the House minority leader […]

Interestingly, many Republican legislators who supported Referenda C&D were not directing the majority of their anger in the aftermath of the campaign at Jon Caldara or Marc Holtzman, but at Rep. Joe Stengel. Stengel, many of them said, was the most dishonest of the NO camp and has apparently burned several of his bridges as […]