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“Government can only be accountable if taxpayers can see what they are buying and how much they are paying for it.”

State Treasurer Cary Kennedy commenting on the Colorado Department of Treasury website that tracks how Colorado tax dollars are spent, as quoted on TheDenverChannel.com 03/07/2010.

Colorado Ethics Watch identifies state's good, bad and ugly

By Michael Roberts, The Westword,
June 25, 2009
No need for Mike Coffman to thumb through "Ethics Roundup: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 2009," a new report by Colorado Ethics Watch, in order to look for his name. Even though CEW brought a complaint against the congressman for actions he took while serving as Colorado's Secretary of State, and decried an April decision by the Independent Ethics Commission clearing him of wrongdoing, he doesn't rate so much of a mention. However, plenty of other notables turn up -- and while that's positive news for folks like Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, who's among those who land in the "good" column, several others won't be happy with their designations. For instance, Black Hawk Mayor David Spellman is breaks "bad" for the second consecutive year, while the Colorado State University Board of Governors and chancellor-in-waiting Joe Blake get hit with the "ugly" stick for violating open-meetings laws, as a judge ruled last week in a lawsuit filed jointly by the Fort Collins Coloradoan, the Pueblo Chieftain and the Colorado Independent. For the full story, please visit http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2009/06/colorado_ethics_watch_identifi...

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