Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) announced Friday he is granting clemency to Tina Peters — the former election official convicted for her role in a voting system breach — cutting her sentence and making her eligible for parole as soon as next month.
The move marks a dramatic and controversial intervention in one of the most closely watched election interference cases to emerge after the 2020 election — and comes after months of sustained pressure from President Donald Trump and his far-right allies to secure Peters’ release.
“We condemn Governor Polis’ clemency grant. It is a gross injustice to our elections, election workers and democracy with far-reaching consequences,” Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) said in a statement. “This is a dark day for democracy.”
Super lame. Seems like Polis caved to the pressure Trump was putting on him. Always shitty to see the bad guys win.
Pollis is a pile of shit and should forever be known for helping election fraud and not upholding the law, and continues to finish his term as a maga cocksucker.
God damn billionaires, they all should be ripped of their wealth and power.
Nobody earns a billion dollars. Nobody.
Democrats are fucking worthless.
“She got a sentence that was harsh. It was a 9 year sentence,” Polis said in March.
It actually wasn’t harsh though. MAGA is just pretending like it was because they’re pissed that one of them had to face any kind of consequences for their criminal behavior. The maximum penalty allowed by statute for each count she was convicted on was double what she actually got. Despite her showing absolutely zero remorse or contrition, the judge still gave her half the sentence they could have.
I can’t imagine why Polis would ever think pardoning her was a good idea, but I suspect he’s looking ahead to when he leaves office next year, and this is the beginning of his heel turn into becoming a right-wing grifter.
Sure, it’s easy to want to imprison fascist criminals for their crimes, because of those fancy words you know, justice, and deterrence, or they will take away your right to vote and execute you as soon as they have the power to do so for not being a reactionary psychopath like them.
But, what if…maybe if we don’t imprison the fascists when they try to stage a coup and discard democracy? There’s a chance like… uh. Wait, hold on. They’ll just… I think, there’s you know, a possibility… Like if they’re old. It…maybe it’ll…improve the general…situation.
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Doesn’t Colorado have a bunch of old mines? Chuck the slagen in the oubliette.
Spineless democrats name a better combo
Fascist Republicans.
Guess which one you dumbasses handed power to?
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Remember when messing was the elections was something you just did not do…
Now as long as it’s the Cons, it’s whatever. And if they do get time for their crimes and treason, then the Pedo-in-Chief will just EO them out.
Disgusting what this country has become.
