What’s the point of even having Colorado campaign finance laws if Democrats refuse to follow the rules and their friends in charge of investigating violations let them off the hook?
Case in point, Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s office is charged with investigating allegations of campaign finance misdeeds.
But now when Griswold is the subject of complaints that she broke the law, Attorney General Phil Weiser’s office is charged with investigating her campaign’s alleged violations.
The news is that Weiser plans to drop the charges while the whole mess is being blamed on Griswold’s brother, who is also her campaign advisor, and she claims to have no knowledge of the campaign violation.
In other words, if a campaign violates the campaign finance law but the candidate disavows all knowledge, then the law was never broken, apparently.
The violation occurred when Griswold was planning to run for governor, and PeakNation™ will recall that Weiser announced this year he’s running for governor.
But now Griswold is instead running for Weiser’s soon-to-be-old job of attorney general.
Isn’t that cozy?
What happened is, Griswold failed to file for office including the required personal financial disclosures before launching her campaign for governor.
And that campaign went public when her brother bought the domain name jenaforgovernor.com last year, which effectively made the campaign public.
Her brother claims he had no idea that buying a domain name comes attached to a landing page on the internet that announces your website called “Jena for Governor” is “coming soon.”
We’re to assume he’s ignorant about the internet, and didn’t bother to check if the product he bought actually existed online.
Here’s the original 9News story from December about the website and the resulting complaint.
The Denver Gazette now reports:
The conclusion is that insufficient evidence supports the finding that Griswold violated state campaign finance law.
Which is really odd, considering the Griswold camp eventually admitted to owning the website domain, which is public information, and was displayed publicly.
The loophole getting Griswold off the hook appears to be the attorney’s general finding that Griswold never “publicly disclosed an interest in running for governor.”
Hilarious, considering everyone in the state has known for years she was planning on it.
And then just one week after Griswold shocked voters by announcing she will be running for attorney general and not governor; the Gazette breaks the news from the current attorney general who is running for governor that he will not be pursing charges against her.
Cozy, indeed.