According to a new ethics report released Monday, life as a congressional staffer in the office of Colorado Republican Rep. Doug Lamborn is…quite strange.
For starters, Lamborn wants you, his office staffer, to give him Christmas presents—beer and food preferred—with a value between $125 and $200.
She may also need you to pick up her mail, set up Zooms with her daughter, move furniture at her home, and possibly violate federal campaign laws. Of course, they assume you are doing all this work voluntarily, even if you’re on taxpayer time and fear losing your job. Some of Jeanie Lamborn’s errands also appear to have violated laws barring the use of government resources for political activity.
In defense of the multiple allegations against his wife, Rep. Lamborn said she “would not do that because that’s not really allowed under the congressional rules of -- of ethics and she wouldn’t want to run afoul of that.” He went on to admit she had summoned an employee to move furniture “on at least one or maybe per -- perhaps two occasions,” a claim investigators immediately challenged as low-balling it.
Kedric Payne, senior director of ethics at bipartisan watchdog Campaign Legal Center, said the entire ethics report presents evidence of “a serious violation.”
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