Congresswoman Musgrave (R-CO) in SERIOUS trouble. Campaign law violations:

[Hawkeye-X]

From Stan Matsunaka's e-mail:

Musgrave Office Scandal

The news is hopping with the story about Musgrave misusing her Congressional office for campaign purposes, which is illegal under federal law. The Fort Morgan Times discussed the story in first an editorial. Stan wrote a letter to Musgrave asking Musgrave to provide documentation to support her claim that the offices are separate. The Rocky Mountain News has reported that federal officials are investigating.

The low down is that Musgrave lists her campaign office as being in suite 777 of a two story building whose directory doesn't show that suite and doesn't list Musgrave's campaign office. There's no sign indicating a campaign office, only Musgrave's Congressional office.

Representatives are not allowed to mix Congressional and campaign functions or funds, but it appears that the lease may have been paid for out of Musgrave's Congressional account. Using Congressional funds for campaign purposes is an abuse of taxpayer money.


Musgrave's Taxpayer Abuse Deepens

We've been alerting you in our newsletter and on our website to concerns about illegal activity that appears to be going on within the Musgrave campaign.

Musgrave now seems to be engaging in illegal mailings to voters from her Congressional office using taxpayer money. During the 90 days before a campaign, Congresspeople aren't allowed to send unsolicited mailings using official Congressional funds. Yet evidence points to the conclusion that Musgrave has done just that.

We thought you'd like to see a copy of this letter so click here to see it in all its glory. For more information, also check out our press release on the subject.

News coverage and lack of coverage interesting

When we sent you our last newsletter we pointed you to a Rocky Mountain News article on Musgrave's Congressional office abuse which we'd posted on our website. Our website always links to online versions of papers which keep an archive of their news articles.

If you attempted to go to the Rocky Mountain News page where we originally found this article, however, you'd find a blank page there now.

Apparently, the RMN originally ran the article online and then not only failed to put it in its physical version but also pulled the story from online. We do note that the RMN has endorsed Musgrave.

Since some people do like to actually read an article on the masthead of the newspaper in which it ran, we took the snapshot we had that was automatically captured on the computer when the piece was first viewed and recovered it for you to see yourself.

That's now posted on our website .

Note that the html code for the online version of RMN articles automatically pulls up ads and certain other information unrelated to the news stories themselves from the RMN server which are current rather than historical. Since we didn't want to tinker with the html code, you'll see the piece as it would look if you could view it today directly from the RMN website.

We were pleased to see the Boulder Daily Camera run an article on this story about the use of Congressional office space for campaign purposes.

And the Sterling Journal Advocate reports that a watchdog group headed by a former federal prosecutor asked the Department of Justice to investigate whether Musgrave engaged in an abuse of taxpayer funds.

Musgrave campaign struggling

The big story all over the news is that the Republican party and the Musgrave campaign are catching on that voters in our Congressional District want a change. The Denver Post reported that our race is much closer than some had expected.

The Longmont Daily Times-CallLongmont Daily Times-Call quotes Stan's assessment of where things stand: “It’s just like I tell the football team I coach, ‘We’re in the last two minutes of this game and it’s tied,’” he told the crowd. “How bad do you want it?”


And the Coloradoan discusses speculation that Bush and other Republican national leaders are flocking to Colorado to try to salvage the race for Musgrave.

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GO STAN!

Hawkeye-X

[coloradodem2005]

1. Even if she is re elected,

she could still lose her seat over this. I would think. She definitely should.

[CO Liberal]

2. Musgrave Should Go From the US House to the Big House

:kick:

[ropi]

3. although not a Colorado resident

someone please keep me informed on dear Marilyn's status tonight. She's such a dear favorite of mine and I'd love to see her go down!

oh, did i just get evil with that or what?

:evilgrin: