Should the elected treasurer in Adams County have to pay the cost of defending herself from a lawsuit her own county commissioners filed against her accusing her of incompetence?
It’s an intriguing enough question that the Colorado Supreme Court has decided to weigh in, perhaps sensing a larger constitutional issue at play. On Aug. 10, the state’s high court ordered both Adams County and a district judge to “show cause” as to why the county isn’t responsible for covering the cost of Lisa Culpepper’s legal defense.
But the more salient issue behind the lack of payment, McGill said, is its impact on the concept of separation of powers between elected offices in Colorado and the potential erosion of the checks and balances system that exists to ensure no one branch of government holds undue sway over another. Absent intervention by the Supreme Court, McGill wrote, “Colorado’s constitutional framework for the separation and diffusion of power within local government is a dead letter in Adams County.”
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