March 03, 2009 10:17 PM UTC

Coffman Ethics Hearing Will Go Ahead

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• by: Colorado Pols

That’s the word from Denver District Court today, as Politics West reports:

Congressman Mike Coffman has a date with the state’s Independent Ethics Commission this week, after a Denver District Court judge denied his request to delay a hearing in a complaint against him.

“Having fully considered the jurisdictional arguments of Coffman advanced to the Court,” Judge Norman Haglund wrote in his order on Friday, “the Court finds no support for the contention that the Commission is clearly acting beyond its constitutional authority in proceeding.”

Translation: Coffman’s gotta face the commission.

The hearing is currently scheduled to start at 8 a.m. Friday.

Colorado Ethics Watch, a watchdog group, filed the complaint last year with the ethics commission alleging that Coffman, a Republican, violated state ethics rules while serving as secretary of state. The complaint alleges Coffman knowingly allowed a state elections employee who was a political ally to operate a partisan side business and improperly recertified electronic voting machines from a company represented by the same political consulting firm he hired to run his Congressional campaign…