Lynn Bartels (The Denver Post) -- A Colorado Springs resident claims a state senator who is paying only $500 a month rent for a swanky downtown Denver condo is violating the state’s confusing ethics laws.

A complaint filed Wednesday with the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission says that Sen. John Morse accepted something of value greater than $50, which was outlawed when voters in 2006 approved Amendment 41.

Morse, a Colorado Springs Democrat and the Senate majority leader, said he had no idea a complaint has been filed but he has done nothing wrong.

“That is nonsense,” he said. “There is no way this is an Amendment 41 violation.”

The complaint was filed by Brandon O’Dell, a Republican and a 25-year-old graduate student at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. O’Dell declined to provide information about what led him to file the complaint, who researched it and who wrote it, except to repeatedly cite unnamed “friends.”