April 28, 2018 02:33 PM UTC

Steve Lebsock--Living It Up At Trump Hotel Las Vegas

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• by: Colorado Pols

Hey, Steve Lebsock! You’ve just become the first sitting member of the Colorado General Assembly to be expelled in over 100 years. What are you going to do now, the world wonders?

Actually, we weren’t wondering. But in case you were:

After then-Rep. Lebsock switched his party affiliation approximately one hour before being expelled from the legislature over serial sexual harassment, Colorado Republicans initially tried to distance themselves from Lebsock. That lasted just long enough for Republicans to get over their squeamishness and appoint Rep. Alex Skinny Winkler to replace him, thus taking literal and figurative ownership of Lebsock’s party switch. Skinny completed the circle of ignominy by announcing that he would not have voted to expel Lebsock to begin with, thus ensuring Republicans retain no moral high ground whatsoever after the whole sorry spectacle is said and done–which will be in November, when Skinny is bounced from one of the shorter legislative terms in office in Colorado history.

To be clear, we don’t have any idea how a guy who just lost a $35,000 a year job can afford to stay in Trump’s green-marble-and-chrome version of opulence, but that’s for another blog post! Obviously we’re curious, which no doubt delights the only bigger sleazeball in Colorado politics than convicted felon tax cheat/TABOR author Doug Bruce. Bruce and Lebsock both have in common a lack of discernment between good and bad attention.

For today, though, ex-Rep. Lebsock (R) toasting fellow lech Donald Trump at the Trump International Hotel and Tower Las Vegas is…well, it’s perfect.

Isn’t it?