Incorrect answer:

YES, because one of the exceptions to the Amendment 41 gift ban allows a state government to pay the reasonable expenses for you to attend a convention, fact-finding mission or trip, or other meeting. A CU-CSU football game could be considered a "meeting" under this exception is INCORRECT.

It would be an inappropriate stretch of the constitutional language to construe a football game as a "meeting" under the exception authorizing a public official or employee to accept the state government's payment of reasonable expenses for attendance at meetings at which the public official or employee is to deliver a speech, make a presentation, participate on a panel, or represent the state or local government. Therefore, it would be inadvisable to accept the tickets based on this exception.

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