BeauprezGate's long shadow
| By Alan Franklin - Oct 25th, 2007 at 3:43 pm EDT |
UPDATE: Watch the Fox 31 segment.
A year ago this month, we delivered the names of thousands of Colorado voters demanding an investigation of illegal access to federal law enforcement databases by the Bob Beauprez campaign for the purposes of smearing his opponent's record as Denver District Attorney. You might recall the image to the right. From our original call:
Beauprez held a press conference in which he tried to shift the issue away from his campaign's possible criminal violations of law. Instead of responding to the charge that they acquired illegally accessed records, Beauprez claimed the alleged law breaker was a courageous whistleblower for bringing these records to the public's attention.
We need your help to hold Beauprez accountable and ensure the media and public continues to focus on Beauprez and the key issue of whether state and federal laws were broken by his campaign. We need to ensure that the focus remains on Beauprez and his campaign's cover-up.
As you know, that's where the focus stayed--at the end of a long and disastrous campaign that saw Beauprez bumble, apologize for numerous gross misstatements, and finally collapse in a frenzy of immigrant and law-enforcement smearing nonsense, he lost the election by an historic margin.
And today, a year later, the other shoe dropped.
Cory Voorhis, a federal special agent who allegedly provided the Bob Beauprez gubernatorial campaign with information about plea agreements, has been charged with three federal misdemeanors for exceeding his authorized access to a government computer.
Each count of the charges, brought by Wyoming acting U.S. Attorney John Green, is punishable by one year imprisonment and/or a fine not to exceed $100,000. The Colorado U.S. Attorney's office had recused itself from the case.
Voorhis, 38, is a special agent with the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He is accused of using the National Crime Information Center database to search for information on an illegal immigrant that was then featured in an attack ad aired by Republican Beauprez's campaign last year.
As turns out, we weren't "bed-wetting, pampered liberals" after all. Or maybe we are, but at least we were right--which feels pretty good at the end of the day.
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