Colorado Democrats Want to Continue Using Taxpayer Dollars to Promote Themselves

by Mr. Bob | 1:09 pm, March 11, 2010 | Comments Off

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From Colorado Senate News.

COLORADO SENATE REPUBLICANS Dems kill proposed ban on elected official promotions

On a party-line vote, Democrats defeated Senate Bill 105, which would have protected taxpayer money from being used to promote elected officials.

“It is important that our citizens know we never use their money to promote ourselves,” said Sen. Bill Cadman, R-Colorado Springs, who sponsored the measure. “We all have campaign funds for that reason.”

The state’s top economists have found that Colorado’s elected officials have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars promoting themselves and their official duties over the past year. In January, an Associated Press report revealed that Democrat Gov. Bill Ritter spent over $200,000 to pay for photographs, videos and TV ads promoting his accomplishments. State Treasurer Cary Kennedy also used her office budget to run TV ads informing the public of the “Great Colorado Payback,” and she featured herself prominently in the commercials.

Cadman said under his bill the state could still spend money informing citizens of the kind of services that are available to them, but elected officials would just be prohibited from making themselves the centerpiece of the promotion.

“Taxpayer funded public service promotions should never be public servant promotions,” Cadman said.

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