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City gives DNC host committee pass on gas tax
Rocky Mountain News ^ | Jul 22 2008 | Daniel J. Chacon

Posted on 7/22/2008, 9:10:54 PM by fidelio

The committee hosting the Democratic National Convention is using the city's gas pumps to fill up on fuel, avoiding state and federal highway taxes, officials said today.

"There's something there that just doesn't seem right to me because, in a sense, you're saying then that the officials who pass the laws are not willing to live by them, and that concerns me," Councilwoman Jeanne Faatz said.

The issue came up during the council's weekly meeting with Mayor John Hickenlooper when the Public Works Department requested authorization to be reimbursed by the Denver 2008 Convention Host Committee for use of "fueling facilities, fuel and car washes."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: 2008dncconvention; corruptdems; denver; doasisaynotasido; gastax; gimmick; hickenlooper; obama
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I thought a suspension of the gas tax was a gimmick?
1 posted on 7/22/2008, 9:10:55 PM by fidelio
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City gives DNC host committee pass on gas tax

And the jokes just write themselves...

2 posted on 7/22/2008, 9:12:41 PM by Old Sarge (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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3 posted on 7/22/2008, 9:13:21 PM by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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So who pays?


4 posted on 7/22/2008, 9:13:57 PM by Tarpon (Ignorance, the most expensive commodity produced by mankind.)
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To: fidelio

Bump fer later...


5 posted on 7/22/2008, 9:15:36 PM by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: fidelio

the officials who pass the laws are not willing to live by them..

Well DUhh..


6 posted on 7/22/2008, 9:17:24 PM by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE toll-free tip hotline 1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRget!!!)
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And to think that Congress had to actually pass a law that said they had to obey the very laws they created!!

What a pathetic joke.

7 posted on 7/22/2008, 9:21:20 PM by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: fidelio

A glimpse of the future under Democrat rules. Everyone working for the “party” pays one price for things while the “common folk” get to pay higher for things. Just like the good old days in the USSR.


8 posted on 7/22/2008, 9:23:11 PM by Cementjungle
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‘Rats to the rest of us: Only the little people pay taxes.


9 posted on 7/22/2008, 9:25:35 PM by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: Tarpon

As a Public Works Director in charge of my city’s fuel contract this makes no sense. They are obviously going to get a break on the price of fuel if the city owned tanks were filled say in April or May, but the price of each gallon of fuel delivered includes all taxes, plus a profit of about 7 cents/gal. Unless Denver is going to go back a strip all of the taxes out then send them the bill just for fuel. I am sure the folks in the Finance Department and the State Auditor may have something to say about that...


10 posted on 7/22/2008, 9:36:23 PM by shotgun
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HOw come the DNC gets a GAS holiday and we don’t?


11 posted on 7/22/2008, 9:42:34 PM by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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I think the refinery delivers gas to the City public works tanks (where they fill up police cars, fire trucks etc), Colorado doesn’t require the municipality to pay local and State taxes to the refiner. City lets DNC gas up for cost.


12 posted on 7/22/2008, 9:49:25 PM by sharkhawk (Here come the Hawks)
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thanks, I read the article after my post. Must be nice to live in a benevolent state that doesn’t charge its taxes to the municipalities, unlike here in the Peoples Repulic of Washington.


13 posted on 7/22/2008, 9:54:45 PM by shotgun
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Sounds like the State Auditor would still have something to look into here. I’m sure the would be some law being broken by the city reselling gas that they didn’t pay state tax on.


14 posted on 7/22/2008, 10:08:04 PM by eggman (Read it on Free Republic tonight, see it on the network news when the DNC sends them the copy.)
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To: fidelio

Doesn’t this amount to a campaign contribution?
Are they going to give the same deal to republicans visiting for the convention?


15 posted on 7/22/2008, 10:09:07 PM by smoketree (the insanity, the lunacy these days)
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That has to be a contribution in kind, which is illegal for the giving agency to give, and illegal for the DNC to accept, and required to disclose to the FEC.

This is a scandal.

Everyone is breaking the law here.

16 posted on 7/22/2008, 10:11:31 PM by Uncle Miltie (Bernanke is a Monetary Slut!)
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Do as they say not as they do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If con is the opposite of pro, doesn't that mean congress is the opposite of progress??

17 posted on 7/22/2008, 10:21:37 PM by onlylewis (dems want a two class system)
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To: fidelio

Democrats to American citizens. Shut up and pay the tax.
Democrats to themselves.
Us pay? You gottsa be out of your mind..........


18 posted on 7/22/2008, 10:24:56 PM by SECURE AMERICA (Got Freedom ? Thank a Veteran...... Want to keep Freedom? Don't vote Obama)
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To: fidelio
RATS delenda est...
19 posted on 7/22/2008, 10:45:30 PM by Chode (American Hedonist -CTHULHU/NYARLATHOTEP'08 = Nothing LESS!!!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Absolutely right. This is completely against campaign finance rules. It is a contribution in kind to a political party from the taxpayers. People should go to jail over this.


20 posted on 7/23/2008, 1:42:54 AM by LouD
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