April 06, 2009 10:00 PM UTC

Entire World Awaits Coffman Ethics Decision

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• by: Colorado Pols

Okay, that’s a bit of a stretch. But as the Denver Post reports:

State ethics commissioners are huddling in executive session this morning and could come to a decision on a complaint filed against now U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman as early as this afternoon.

The complaint alleges that as secretary of state, Coffman knowingly allowed a staffer to conduct a partisan side business, a problem for an office charged with staying politically neutral and overseeing fair elections.

The complaint also charges that Coffman re-certified electronic voting machines owned by a client of the political consulting firm that ran his congressional campaign.

Coffman’s lawyer, Doug Friednash, has said the complaint by Colorado Ethics Watch is part of a “two-year jihad” to discredit a man who was the state’s top Republican at the time…

The group’s leader, Chantell Taylor, has said the complaint about partisanship is a red herring, meant to distract from the facts in the complaint.