April 27, 2020 09:38 AM UTC

Keep Those Campaigns Socially Distanced, Staffers

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• by: Colorado Pols

Here’s a screen shot we were forwarded of one Heba Abdelaal, a legislative aide for Sen. Cory Gardner, on a call with the Colorado Counties, Inc. earlier this month. This image was taken from an update from Sen. Gardner’s official-side legislative staff about official stuff.

And…that’s a Gardner for Senate campaign banner in the background! Official taxpayer-paid staffers are supposed to keep a bright white line in place between themselves and their bosses’ re-election campaign, which has become a point of minor controversy for Colorado politicos over the years. It’s not a referral to the Senate Ethics Committee, but it’s not appropriate, and it doesn’t seem in this image to be an accident.

Call it the 2020 version of “nonpartisan” staffers handing out campaign flyers. The rules still apply, folks.