Republican Doug Bruce: just another lying tax cheat

by: Zappatero

Fri Feb 18, 2011 at 09:06:15 AM MST

When the geniuses who run the El Paso County Republicans needed someone to fill an empty seat in the Colorado State House they chose Doug Bruce. Thank God for their congenital obtuseness.

So while Bruce loves being in the spotlight and loves having his name associated with laws and such, if there's one that's a little inconvenient for him to follow, like campaign finance and disclosure laws, he'll ignore them:

Douglas Bruce, a candidate for the Colorado Springs City Council, has spent more than 20 years in Colorado politics as an activist, a candidate and an office holder. He even founded a nonprofit charity in 2001 that has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on various campaigns.

But in at least three years that Bruce operated the charity, called Active Citizens Together, he did not report the group's political involvement and expenditures to the Internal Revenue Service, as charities are required to do. From 2005 to 2008, ACT spent money on at least eight political campaigns.

The Gazette reported in October that Bruce failed to report ACT's 2008 political expenditures to the IRS, checking a box on a tax form saying ACT didn't lobby that year,  while ACT in 2008 fiercely campaigned against a pair of statewide ballot questions.

And to that I say Hear ye hear ye! Long Live Doug Bruce - Republican role-model and tax cheat!