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madamesilverspurs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-09-11 08:32 PM
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Secretary of state plans fundraiser to help pay Larimer GOP fine his office levied
Secretary of State Scott Gessler plans a fundraiser this month to help the Larimer County Republican Party pay a $15,700 campaign finance fine – a penalty Gessler’s office levied after reducing the original fine by $33,000.

Gessler’s spokesman and the Larimer GOP chairman said the fundraiser is appropriate, an opinion rejected by a political scientist, government watchdogs and the state Democratic chairman.

“This just doesn't seem like the best exercise in judgment. One would think the secretary would instead go to great lengths to keep his distance so as to avoid any appearance of partisanship with respect to the fine reduction,” said John Straayer, a political scientist at Colorado State University and a leading expert on state government.

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Our new Secretary of State, Scott Gessler (Teabagger), brought a boatload of ethics problems with him. And once elected, he whined about the pay and stated he'd keep working his other job to make ends meet (his other job was working at a law firm as an elections lawyer).


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