A flyer sent to Congressional District 5 residents over the last few weeks is completely legal, according to a document released by Republican U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn’s office on Tuesday.
Lamborn’s flyer cited a 100 percent ranking from the conservative National Journal Magazine, listed his positions on several issues, and talks about the president’s federal budget. And one of Lamborn’s opponents in the Republican primary, businessman Robert Blaha, filed a formal complaint with the U.S. House Committee on Administration, alleging that the flyer violates House rules. Blaha said the piece was essentially a campaign mailer, paid for by the federal government.
But the mailer was properly submitted to the committee and was given a green light on March 16, Lamborn spokeswoman Cat Mortensen said Monday. And on Tuesday, Mortensen disclosed a document apparently from the House Commission on Mailing Standards, dated the same day, formally clearing the flyer as legal.
Look at the document here. And view the mailer here.
Members of Congress are allowed to send government-sponsored mail to constituents, ostensibly to keep them in the loop about what’s happening in Washington.
Read about Blaha’s complaint here.
As the saying goes, the scandal isn’t that this breaks the law, it’s that it doesn’t break the law.
I thought Blaha operated only on “facts.” That he would check and double check his “facts” before saying things. Apparently not
Mr. Blaha should step up and say he is sorry for not checking with Congress First to ensure that they did not approve the mailing.
Lamborn wastes money sending out these glossy mailings throughout the year. He is such a hypocritical moron…ANYBODY would be better.
My brother and I share a house and I’m a registered Democrat while he is unaffiliated. He got the flyer and I did not. I wonder if they just sent them to Republican’s and Unaffiliated voters? It would seem that they would be mailed to all of the 5th District registered voters if it was non-political. Democrats are constituents too.
Agree with PurpleMartin.
IF this is legal under the House Franking Commission rules, then their rules are manure.
This is nothing but campaiging with no information of any function to constituents.
A question might be, who reviewed it (by name), how long was it reviewed, and how many are ever denied by the committee? I doubt if members of Congress have much time to spend reviewing each others slick glossy pieces of junk mail. Only the American taxpayer have to spend time earning and paying money to teh Government to support such a waste.
Once again Dougie embarrasses Colorado Springs. Throw this moron out of Congress!!!!!