I am referring, of course, to Colorado Governor Jared Polis, who just caved to Donald Trump and commuted Tina Peters' sentence for election fraud.
Needless to say, his political career with the Democratic Party should be over now, but it probably won't be, because the Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment) is too busy trying to kneecap people like Platner, Mamdani, and AOC. (Priorities, don't you know)
Gov. Jared Polis reduced Tina Peters’ sentence by half on Friday, ignoring months of pleas against such an action by many other Colorado elected officials and the prosecutor who won the former county clerk’s conviction in an election data-breach scheme.
In a letter to Peters, Polis wrote that she will “be released on parole effective June 1, 2026” — in just over two weeks.
The commutation, which was announced in a group of 44 clemency actions Friday afternoon, reduced Peters’ original sentence of nearly nine years, which was thrown out last month, to about 4.5 years. Polis’ action, coming after more than a year of pressure from President Donald Trump — and several actions taken targeting the state — risked the appearance that he was bending to Trump’s demands. But in an interview with The Denver Post ahead of the announcement, the governor was resolute.
Peters, the former Mesa County clerk, has been a public supporter of election conspiracies rooted in Trump’s reelection loss in 2020. But Polis said that “just because somebody believes the Earth is flat — just because somebody believes in conspiracy theories — does not mean that they should receive a harsher sentence for a very specific crime.”
Polis’ action drew swift reaction from other elected Democrats. Attorney General Phil Weiser, in an interview, called the commutation “an insult,” “mind-boggling” and “a threat to the rule of law.” And Secretary of State Jena Griswold called Polis’ decision “an affront to democracy” and accused the governor of “selling out our state justice system to cave to a vengeful president.”
F%$# Jared Polis.
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