Another fine specimen doing Marilyn's dirty work

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It's another edition of, I'm a Fool to Do Your Dirty Work, right here on Musgrave Must Go. Remember when a bunch of Larimer County Republicans agreed to help DeLay crony Marilyn Musgrave smear Angie Paccione, and ended up having egg smeared all over their faces instead?

Well, they must not read the news regular in the Buxman household. According to the Greeley Trib:

A Greeley resident filed a federal complaint against Rep. Angie Paccione, D-Fort Collins, on Monday.

The complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission in Washington alleges Paccione violated federal election law when an e-mail from her campaign offered free vacations to contributors.

"Seeing what she had done I thought something ought to be done," said Ron Buxman, 50, of Greeley. "It may have even been a staff person who did this and I understand. But, the buck still stops with you, even if someone below does it."

It's the same shabby Modus Operandi. Some generic Republican party hack -- this time the vice chair of the Weld County GOP -- acts all shocked, and doesn't come clean and admit they are doing Marilyn Musgrave a favor. Yet it then turns out that they are also Musgrave contributors, and the whole thing stinks. It makes a sick kinda sense, since Marilyn can't come out and fight on her record.

In fact, the Buxman Family has given quite a bit of dough to Marilyn. From opensecrets:

Contributor	Occupation	Date	Amt	Recipient
BUXMAN, DORIS GREELEY,CO 80631	SELF/DAIRY FARMER	3/19/05	$500	Musgrave, Marilyn
BUXMAN, DORIS GREELEY,CO 80631		9/30/04	$250	Musgrave, Marilyn
BUXMAN, HAROLD GREELEY,CO 80631		9/30/04	$250	Musgrave, Marilyn
BUXMAN, RON GREELEY,CO 80631	SELF/DAIRY FARMER	8/13/03	$250	Musgrave, Marilyn

BUXMAN, RON GREELEY,CO 80631

SELF/DAIRY FARMER

10/8/02

$400

Musgrave, Marilyn

Unfortunately, another part of the pattern is incomplete reporting. Consider this, remember when "constituent" Chuck Fox signed the legislative complaint that they forgot to send to the legislature? Fox told Lynn Bartels:

He said he doesn't know who wrote the letter, but when he was asked to sign it, he did.

Not that Lynn wondered who asked him to sign it, since it was pretty obviously Marilyn herself.

So now, doesn't it seem relevant for Greeley Trib reporter Joanna Larez to wonder:

1. Who wrote the complaint?
2. Who asked Ron Buxman to sign it?

But the Marilyn ought to ask herself whether Buxman was really the right guy. A curious tidbit floated into the gmail this morning. It's from a Sep. 10, 1998 Denver Post article:

Republicans on Tuesday selected Weld County Commissioner Bill Webster to replace Ron Buxman, who withdrew last week from the House District 48 race.

Buxman, 42, left the race Sept. 1, citing a "youthful indiscretion" that threatened to hurt his family and personal life if it came to light. He did not elaborate. Buxman also said he withdrew because his brother, Don, was quitting the family dairy business.

Seem Ronny had some high aspirations. Maybe next time around, ol' Ronn-o can explain this "youthful indiscretion" so fellow Coloradans can continue looking to him to point out the mistakes of others?