U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman has a date with the state’s Independent Ethics Commission this week, after a Denver district judge denied his request to delay a hearing in a complaint against him.
“The Court finds no support for the contention that the Commission is clearly acting beyond its constitutional authority in proceeding,” Judge Norman Hag lund wrote in his order Friday. The hearing is scheduled for 8 a.m. Friday.
Colorado Ethics Watch filed the complaint last year alleging Coffman, a Republican, violated state ethics rules as secretary of state. The complaint claims Coffman knowingly let a state elections worker who was a political ally run a partisan side business and improperly recertified voting machines from a company represented by the same political consulting firm he hired to run his campaign. Coffman has denied wrongdoing. John Ingold, The Denver Post
