sen. vicki marble
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State Sen. Vicki Marble violated Colorado ethics law, commission finds
State Sen. Vicki Marble has violated the state constitution’s ethics law, known as Amendment 41, the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission decided Monday morning in a 3-2 vote. The commission found the Fort Collins Republican violated the constitution’s gift limit but dismissed a second statutory violation, which would have been a misdemeanor. “This is not a…
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Marble ethics violations now in the hands of Colorado state commission
A lengthy hearing Monday to determine whether state Sen. Vicki Marble violated the state’s ethics law ended without a decision by the state ethics body. The Colorado Independent Ethics Commission took testimony through almost seven hours from witnesses to a Feb. 15 event in Broomfield that featured an oil and gas company’s plan…
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Marble disputes ethics charge, said she didn’t know who paid for town hall
In just over two weeks, the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission will hold a formal hearing to determine whether Sen. Vicki Marble violated the state’s ethics law concerning gifts to lawmakers. The Commission worked through pre-trial motions Thursday in preparation for the Jan. 8 meeting, which could feature testimony by Marble, an Extraction Oil & Gas…
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As anticipated, an effort to reform discipline in Colorado schools …
… died at the hands of the state Senate GOP in its kill committee on Monday, Chalkbeat Colorado reports this morning. Before being substantially amended at the Monday hearing, the proposed reform would have reined in school suspensions and expulsions of early-elementary kids and public-school preschoolers. In a 3-2, party-line vote, the GOP majority on the Senate State, Veterans…
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A reminder that Republicans can run afoul of tort reform too
Even amid the ever-shifting alliances of hardball politics, there are some loyalties you generally can rely on. You know, like how the environmentalists, the abortion-rights advocates and the trial lawyers are generally in the Democrats’ corner. And the gun owners, the right-to-lifers and the fossil fuelers — to say nothing of the tort reformers — will line up with the GOP.…