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The Durango Herald, Mar 12, 2010
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The Denver Post, Mar 12, 2010
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Craig Daily Press, Mar 11, 2010
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Craig Daily Press, Mar 11, 2010
“Government can only be accountable if taxpayers can see what they are buying
and how much they are paying for it.”
Group sues over OK of legislator's expenses-paid trip
By The Denver Post,
May 20, 2009
An ethics watchdog group is suing over a decision that Colorado lawmakers can accept a trip to Turkey.
Colorado Ethics Watch wants a judge to overturn a decision issued last month by the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission that it would be OK for a state lawmaker to accept an educational trip to Turkey paid for by a nonprofit in Denver called Multicultural Mosaic Foundation.
The foundation would pay expenses for the lawmaker, Democratic Rep. Cherylin Peniston of Westminster, and her husband.
She said other Colorado lawmakers were coming on the June trip, but she declined to name them
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