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Colorado ethics panel to investigate shorter list of complaints against Hickenlooper
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The Colorado Independent Ethics Commission will move forward with an investigation into some, but not all, of a former Republican lawmaker’s complaints about travel and gifts provided to then-Gov. John Hickenlooper in 2018. The state panel voted unanimously Monday to look at five travel-related gifts and dismissed three others filed by former Republican Speaker of…
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McNulty adds to ethics complaint against Hickenlooper
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Former Republican Speaker of the House Frank McNulty has filed a second ethics complaint against Gov. John Hickenlooper, referring to the term-limited Democrat as “Jet-set John” in the Nov. 29 filing with the state Independent Ethics Commission. In this latest complaint, McNulty, a longtime Hickenlooper nemesis who runs the newly-formed Public Trust Institute, claimed Hickenlooper…
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Colorado Ethics Commission again delays decision on Sen. Vicki Marble’s alleged ethics violation
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A decision on an ethics violation complaint levied against Republican Sen. Vicki Marble of Fort Collins is yet another month away, after the members of the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission decided they need more time to hammer out an opinion on the alleged violation. A month ago, a bet that the commission would vote to…
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Colorado commission delays vote on ethics complaint against Sen. Vicki Marble
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The Colorado Ethics Commission Monday spent close to two hours deliberating on the facts and issues in an ethics complaint filed against Fort Collins Republican Sen. Vicki Marble. While the commission appeared to lean toward dismissing the complaint, they decided to hold off on a vote until their next meeting on March 5. Marble is…
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Ethics commission delays decision on open records rules
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The Colorado Independent Ethics Commission, under fire from open records advocates over its attempt to write its own open records rules, decided Monday to delay a decision on those rules, in part because of objections from the public. And after hearing from transparency advocates, including the organization that wrote the law creating the commission, one…
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Ethics commission dismisses complaint against former Glendale councilman on technicality
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The question of whether someone can file an ethics complaint with a home rule city or county and the state’s Independent Ethics Commission at the same time will wait another day for an answer. On Thursday the ethics commission dismissed a complaint against a former Glendale city councilman because the commission’s official views on home…
