Conservative blog Colorado Peak Politics reminds us that even under the Office of Congressional Ethics-saved from the executioner this week after House Republicans did an about-face-Colorado’s Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, of Boulder, was let off the hook for allegedly improper business endorsements a little over a year ago.

It makes for an amusing footnote in the wake of the week’s bruhaha over GOP plans to scrap the agency. Those plans were themselves scuttled when-depending on which party’s spin you buy into-enraged voters lit up congressional switchboards / President-elect Donald Trump weighed in via Twitter. Maybe some of both?

Either way, Polis’s brush with the system didn’t exactly leave him roughed up. That’s certainly not to say the congressman deserved otherwise; we’ll defer to the experts on that. To Peak Politics’ point, though, the episode is ironic in hindsight.

As The Hill reported at the time of the Polis episode in December 2015:

The House Ethics Committee said Monday that it is dismissing allegations against Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) for alleged improper endorsements of a video game and a menswear company in his district.

The Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), an independent watchdog, concluded in a separate review earlier this year that there was substantial reason to believe that Polis used official resources to promote the businesses in violation of federal law and House ethics rules.

…The Ethics Committee concluded that Polis agreed to both events with no commercial purposes in mind.

“While it does appear that both the Riot Games video and the Ninox clothing event were intended, at least in part, to promote the businesses, this is true in virtually every instance in which a business participates in or arranges an event with a Member,” the Ethics Committee wrote in its report.

The Ethics Committee’s report did include what was arguably a bit of a scolding in the form of an advisory, as The Hill also reported:

While clearing Polis of the allegations, the Ethics panel noted in its report that lawmakers should be careful when coordinating events with private businesses given that House rules do not offer a “bright line.”

“The Committee encourages all Members who are contemplating participating in events with commercial entities to contact the Committee with any questions they may have, and to exercise caution to avoid any appearance of an improper official endorsement or use of official resources for a commercial purpose,” the panel wrote.

Peak Politics added this parting shot to today’s blog post:

Polis didn’t have any public statements yesterday like other Democrats, who used the opportunity to shame Republicans. Perhaps he was busy writing that Thank You note.