June 27, 2011 11:09 PM UTC

CoGAP Goes Bye-Bye?

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• by: Colorado Pols

We were tipped about this a few weeks ago, but we wanted to wait for awhile to see if there were other explanations. A self-described government ethics watchdog that made quite a bit of noise over the past year or so has apparently closed up shop without so much as a goodbye. The Colorado Government Accountability Project (CoGAP) received a fair amount of press over two ethics complaints–one filed against the ousted former opponent of Secretary of State Scott Gessler, Bernie Buescher, the other against one of Gessler’s fiercest critics, Sen. John Morse. In both cases, the complaints were dismissed; and CoGAP’s unsupported accusations, specious methodology, and belligerent press relations damaged their credibility.

Perhaps fatally–CoGAP’s website has been offline for us since at least the first week of June, their Facebook page has been wiped clean, and nobody has heard from erstwhile CoGAP director Stephanie Cegielski in some time. It does seem that CoGAP has vanished without a trace. The only question remaining is…what happened?

We mean besides the unsupported accusations, specious methodology, and belligerent press relations. That’s the part everybody knows about…