And I'm sick of making some kind of partisan distinction.

Ethics panel named to investigate Hanna

Senate Majority Leader Ken Gordon, D-Denver, sought the investigation following a report last week in the Rocky Mountain News that Hanna had demanded the money from the state Association of Realtors.

Gordon said Wednesday that Hanna's letter to the group implied that if the Realtors didn't pay up, their issues wouldn't be supported.

"Senator Hanna's language - whether she was intentionally soliciting money for favorable legislative action, which would be a crime, or through some lapse of judgment has written a letter capable of misinterpretation - tends to bring the Senate into disrepute, damages the Senate's reputation and serves to destroy the faith the public has in legislative bodies," Gordon wrote in his complaint.

She's entitled to a fair hearing, but it's intolerable if it's true. We can make no accusation credibly if we tolerate the same crime in our own house. Why the hell isn't that axiomatic?