Update: See a resemblance?
Our friends over at Complete Colorado continue to ride hard on the findings of an Open Record Request initiated by the increasingly-rancorous Colorado Government Accountability Project which uncovered gross per diem abuses by Senate Majority Leader John Morse.
Either Morse is the hardest working man EVER, or he is a per diem cheat. The huge gaps in his calendars on days he collected state cash make a strong case for the latter.
Remarkably, the Capitol press corps just won't cover the story. 9NEWS? The Denver Post? The Denver Daily? The Pueblo Chieftain? The Colorado Springs Gazette? The Grand Junction Sentinel? FOX31? CBS4?
None of them. Not a word. Not a whiff.
This, friends, is an outrage.
If this were Frank McNulty, Mike Kopp, or Amy Stephens, we would be on Day Three of front page coverage, and probably an editorial or two to boot.
Think we are being a little hypersensitive? Think we are being too hard on the selectively napping press corps? We aren't.
Two words. Joe Stengel.
Nothing further, your Honor.
A lot of my liberal friends hate it when I point out the liberal bias in the media and deny such a thing exists. Kinda hard to deny it with examples like this.
The last time I covered a story that came out of CGAP was on the alleged private time of Bernie Buescher.
I discovered the analysis done by CGAP was very flawed and failed to ask the right questions that would have produced an accurate analysis. The story I wrote pointed this out.
In the middle of the legislative session, we’re drinking out of a firehouse around here, and I don’t have time right now to re-check CGAP’s work on this.
You want an honest answer, you got it.
Regardless of your view of CGAP’s previous work, this story seems pretty airtight to me. His calendar says he didn’t do work on certain days, but he applied for a per diem reimbursement anyway. In most jobs that would get you fired, especially for the number of times he defrauded his bosses (the taxpayers) this time.
How does the press claim to be neutral observers and then not report on this????