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July 22, 2008
Taxes for Thee...
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.Car washes, too?"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."
If the GOP is smart, they'll turn this into some sort of advertisement with the ultimate goal of pressuring the DNC to spend some of its diminishing convention funds to reimburse Denver's taxpayers.
Posted by slublog at July 22, 2008 07:48 PM
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Another question, are they getting per diem and milage? This would double the insult to the taxpayers!
Posted by: Peter's Dad at July 23, 2008 08:47 AM