Animas River spill: Cynthia Coffman’s private-meeting invitation irks SW Colorado public officials

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Source: Colorado Independent

At the peak of the Animas River crisis, Cynthia Coffman reached out to the Durango City Council and La Plata County Commission and invited each member to dinner. But several of her would-be guests didn’t appreciate what the state Attorney General planned to serve up.

Some are blasting Coffman for ignoring Colorado’s open meetings law. As the state’s top law enforcement official, they say, she should have known better than to try to gather them together in a closed meeting.

“Talk about awkward – being asked by the attorney general herself to violate the law,” Mayor Dean Brookie told The Colorado Independent. “We were all pretty taken aback that she would have created that situation.”

Others were irritated by what they saw as Coffman’s attempt to exploit the disaster playing out in the river that is their community’s lifeblood. Coffman’s dinner meeting — which she cancelled because of a travel delay — was meant to rally local support for a politically motivated lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency for accidentally releasing toxic orange mine waste into the Animas.

Read more: http://www.coloradoindependent.com/155003/cynthia-coffmans-private-meeting-invitation-irks-sw-colorado-public-officials

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1. I have known this woman (tangentially) since before she married the RW scum & now CO Senator,

Mike Coffman. My knowledge of her was in the professional realm and I was not impressed, so this does not surprise me. I hope she gets a good slap-down.