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Ethics panel to hold hearing on complaint against Coffman : The Rocky Mountain News
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/10/ethics-panel-to-hold-hearing-on-complaint/ A complaint filed a year ago against former Secretary of State Mike Coffman should continue to a public hearing, the new state Independent Ethics Commission has ruled. The hearing, scheduled for March 6, would be the first of its kind by the panel, which was formed last year as a result of a state ethics law approved by voters in 2006. Colorado Ethics Watch, a government watchdog group, filed the complaint against Coffman in February 2008. The group accuses him of breaking ethics rules by allowing an employee of the elections division, which is part of the Secretary of State's Office, to operate a partisan political business. Ethics Watch also alleges that Coffman approved electronic voting machines made by a company that hired a lobbying group he used to run his successful congressional campaign. Coffman, a Republican who now represents the 6th Congressional District, did not comment for this story but has previously denied wrongdoing and has accused Ethics Watch of targeting only Republicans. In an official response to the commission, he called the complaint "frivolous and brought for the purposes of harassment."
Friday, February 13, 2009
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