A lawsuit against Aurora City Councilman Ryan Frazier has been thrown out by an Arapahoe County Judge.
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The lawsuit alleged Frazier did not properly respond to an open records request filed earlier this year. Frazier called the suit “politically motivated” and suspects it was a union effort backed by Protect Colorado’s Future, a coalition of unions and liberal advocacy groups. The group has previously paid for negative television ads about Frazier.
Frazier is a proponent of the right-to-work ballot initiative (also known as Amendment 47), which currently faces legal challenges from the same lawyer and firm representing Foster Hines, the plaintiff in the open-records case. Hines questions the circumstances surrounding $1,500 in donations from employees of Carollo Engineers in Arizona, received after the same the Aurora City Council unanimously approved a $10 million contract for Carollo.
This decision comes as a blow to Mark Grueskin, a favorite litigator among Democrat activists. Grueskin, a partner at Isaacson Rosenbaum P.C., suffered another recent loss when a Denver District Court judge found a statewide property tax increase championed by Gov. Bill Ritter violates the Colorado Constitution.
Arapahoe County Judge Cheryl Post said that Frazier was not the proper person to sue and that the open records request was filed improperly.