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“The fact that they only gave money when he was doing these final rules, that more than ever really raises flags. There’s something fishy going on.”
Rep. Mark Ferrandino, commenting on campaign contributions from payday lending companies to Attorney General John Suthers as Suthers writes regulations to implement a new payday lending law, as reported in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, August 13, 2010

Executive session at odds with state law, county policy

By Brent Gardner-Smith, Aspen Daily News,
July 31, 2009
Pitkin County commissioners appear to have violated both county policy and state law this week when they convened a closed-door executive session.

Both the county’s formally adopted “Governance Policies” and the Colorado Open Meetings Law require elected officials to identify the matters to be discussed in an executive session in “as much detail as possible without compromising the purpose for which the executive session is authorized.”

On Tuesday the commissioners made and passed a motion to go into executive session that included only a list of nine topics and included no further details or discussion about the topics.
For the full story, please visit http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/135870
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