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Sun Jan 23, 2011 at 09:15:07 AM MST
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( - promoted by Fong)
(NOTE: I will delete this post, retract, and issue a semi-sincere apology when evidence appears that Scott intended all along to moonlight with his old firm because he could not survive on the measly wages afforded SoS by Colorado's taxpayers.)
So it seems like newly elected Secretary of State and Tea Party Golden Boy Scott Gessler is being advised to pursue his blatant conflict of interest while at the same time getting a poverty pleading from the Independence Institute and saying that he was always going to have to moonlight at this old firm. Being the incompetent brilliant lawyer he is he just forgot to leave any evidence of that claim.
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| Zappatero :: Duh Diligence |
- Gessler tells Ed Sealover of the Denver Business Journal (and formerly of the CS Gazette) that he just can't live on that measly $68,500 Secretary of State salary.
- Gessler says he always intended to moonlight with his old job and The Denver Post prints it. (NO LINK because the Post likes to sue blogs who link to their stories.)
- Jesicca Corry of The Independence Institute pleads poverty for Scott in The Huffpost Denver, which always seems to have plenty of room for Conservative Columnists at the top of their page. Her sad wail? "Elected officials have mortgages, too."
Tito, pass me a tissue before I....waaaaaaaaaahhhhh!
What can we conclude from these 3 pieces of incontrovertible evidence, Your Honor?- There is no way is hell that Sealover would have left out the "always planned on moonlighting" stuff from his DBJ story if it was true. But then it wouldn't have been a story, eh?
- Scott Gessler did no due diligence on salary when he applied for the Secretary of State job from Colorado's voters. His fellow lawyers may disbar him just for that.
- The lawyer now says he intends to moonlight with his old firm that specifically does business with the Secretary of State's office, but that we should trust him and that he won't, no Really, he won't do anything unethical in service to Colorado's citizens.
- And now, contrary to everything they've ever said about public servants, Jon Caldara and Jessica of the Institute think government employees are really good people and should be making more money -- paid for by taxes, of course.
And just my last comment: maybe Scott all along knew "payback" for his "services" as SoS would be imminent and didn't want to any undue delays in the process. I understand 68K might be low for a lawyer in his position. Maybe he couldn't tell his Tea Party supporters that he intended to have a blatant conflict of interest throughout his term. And maybe the Independence Institute will tell us why government employees are worth the investment of our tax dollars in their salaries, tools, and infrastructure.
But the first thing we should be told about this mess is when Scott Gessler will resign so Hick can appoint his replacement.
Hick's got a state to run, after all.
(Couple of edit/grammatical fixes. -z) |
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