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Yup, that's some clown car shit right there. I hope the press reports on them.
Don't forget HB14-1258, Respondent's Legal Rights in IEC complaints. The ostensible purpose of this bill is to make sure that any government employee facing the Independent Ethics Commission has their "legal rights" safeguarded.
The legal rights in question are the right to know charges against the respondent, and the right to free legal counsel, since paying for legal counsel out of the company till might be yet another ethics complaint. Sounds good, right? it gets better:
Wow! So if someone, like, say, Scott Gessler, was brought up on ethics complaints, and had public hearings and the whole nine yards, Scotty could hold the IEC commissioners personally liable for his expenses, not to mention his pain and suffering!
Gosh, I wonder what that effect would have on the ability of the IEC to carry out its mission to "give advice and guidance on ethics issues arising under Article 29 of the Colorado Constitution," knowing that any respondent could theoretically sue them in Federal Court if said respondent thought that a charge was insufficiently explained, or they weren't offered a free defense at IEC expense?
It might stop the IEC from being able to investigate ethical problems, right?
But hey, if you're Scott Gessler, you just get the fee-paying Colorado public to pay your legal defense fees ($238,973) in the IEC complaint as well. And hey, if you blow your budget, you can always blame that darn election law.
This bill was introduced by Amy Stephens, and was promptly packed off to cold storage in the State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee. It is clearlly some kind of revenge or political inoculation for the Governor's race for Mr. Gessler.
Pols, I'm not going to have time to write a diary anytime soon, and if I did, that's pretty much what I'd say, above. So if you want to run with it, please do.