Usually a cue to pay attention, as the AP reports:
Former Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman is asking a judge to block the state Independent Ethics Commission from holding a hearing on a complaint against him.
Coffman filed suit in Denver District Court saying the complaint by Colorado Ethics Watch is frivolous and the commission has no jurisdiction to consider it…
The ethics complaint accuses Coffman of improperly allowing an employee who dealt with elections to also operate a partisan political business.
It also says he improperly approved electronic voting machines from a manufacturer with ties to a lobbying group that Coffman used when he ran for Congress…
The complaint was filed last year. In December, Coffman asked the commission to dismiss it, but panel members denied the request last week and scheduled a March 6 hearing on the matter.
The ethics commission was created last year, and Coffman’s hearing will be its first…
We’d be surprised if this gets dismissed, precisely because the Amendment 41-created Ethics Commission has very little power to sanction beyond placing another nastygram in now-Rep. Mike Coffman’s permanent record. Which is why it seems odd for Coffman, very much covered by the Ethics Commission’s mandate as a state employee at the time–and especially if he’s “innocent” and this is all “frivolous”–to want to stop the commission from going to work. What’s he got to lose, with plenty to gain from exoneration?
Of course, it could be a really nasty nastygram…
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