That darn DeLay.

[coloradodem2005]

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and his lobbyist/gift ethics scandal continues to be bad news for Colorado politicians.

We've written before about how DeLay's troubles could affect potential gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis, and now DeLay's troubles are reaching Congressman Bob Beauprez. In May Beauprez was linked to DeLay for receiving $20,000 in campaign funds from the embattled Texas Republican, and just the other day the Associated Press ran a story about travel paid for Beauprez and his wife by special interest groups that the Congressman didn't report in a timely manner:

Two members of Colorado's congressional delegation failed for months or years to file appropriate disclosure forms for travel paid for by special interest groups, an Associated Press review has found. Republican Rep. Bob Beauprez and his wife traveled to Spain and Israel last fall on a $21,000 trip paid for by a private foundation, and Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette took a $410 special interest trip to San Diego in 2002. Neither filed disclosure forms with the House Ethics Committee until early May, according to records reviewed by the AP...

...Beauprez's trip, which cost $21,226 for him and his wife, was among the more expensive trips reported in the past few months. It was paid for by the Michael Cherney Foundation, which has various charity projects in Israel, including help for bombing victims.

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