Ah, classic ivory tower liberalism at its best.  The rules apply only to the unwashed – the elites need not worry about the rules that govern the common folk.  Why would the party of Spitzer, Morrison, Dann and Obama possibly think the rules applied to them?  From the Rocky Mountain News:

Denver officials abruptly have stopped allowing Democratic National Convention planners to gas up at city pumps, acknowledging that the city can’t legally sell fuel.

Public Works Department representatives also acknowledged that they never should have started selling gasoline to convention planners back in March before signing a contract with either the Denver 2008 Host Committee or the Democratic National Convention Committee.

The arrangement sparked an outcry after Public Works representatives first said that convention planners would not be charged the 40.4 cents a gallon gasoline tax and then said they would not be subject to other fees paid by drivers who use commercial pumps.

Public Works officials later said the taxes and fees would be paid.

Public Works deputy manager George Delaney sent a letter to City Council members Tuesday saying that the arrangement would be scuttled. Instead, the host committee, which raises money to put on the convention, and the DNCC entered an agreement with a private fuel vendor for gasoline for the fleet of vehicles it is using.

Delaney said in the letter that the arrangement “highlighted two fundamental issues” for the department.

First, Delaney wrote, a contract should have been in place before any fuel was dispensed. Second, “There are better ways to structure the contract than what was initially proposed.”

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