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stumpysbear

(270 posts)
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 02:05 PM Saturday

Colorado gov Polis considering clemency for Tina Peters

You’ve GOT to be kidding me

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5682750-polis-weighs-tina-peters-sentence/amp/

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) on Friday said he’s considering granting Tina Peters clemency, after she was jailed for her role in an election security breach.

“She got a sentence that was harsh. It was a nine-year sentence,” Polis said in an interview with CBS Colorado.
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Colorado gov Polis considering clemency for Tina Peters (Original Post) stumpysbear Saturday OP
No!!!!! SheltieLover Saturday #1
THIS is why we so often lose. 😞 Chasstev365 Saturday #2
Under the bus they throw us. LuvLoogie Saturday #3
HARSH? bluestarone Saturday #4
He has deferred to TSF before. Sneederbunk Saturday #5
Fetterman west. BannonsLiver Saturday #6
She was unrepentant at sentencing and... surfered Saturday #7
No, NO, NO!!!!! hatrack Saturday #8
Cheating and Messing with our Democracy in Colorado.. Cha Saturday #9
If you are a Colorado resident, call his office and tell him he damn well better not. Scrivener7 Saturday #10
not much of a line to be drawn between drumpf running your state and someone who does what drumpf tells him to Takket Saturday #11

Sneederbunk

(17,270 posts)
5. He has deferred to TSF before.
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 02:14 PM
Saturday

Let the matter run its course. She is up for parole consideration in two years.

surfered

(11,622 posts)
7. She was unrepentant at sentencing and...
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 04:26 PM
Saturday

…District Judge Matthew Barrett was having none of it, unleashing a pointed rebuke as he denied her probation: “You are no hero. You abused your position and you’re a charlatan who used and is still using your prior position in office to pedal a snake oil that’s been proven to be junk time and time again in your world. It’s all about you. … You cannot help but lie as easy it is for you to breathe.”

hatrack

(64,274 posts)
8. No, NO, NO!!!!!
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 04:44 PM
Saturday

Jesus Christ, Governor - get a fucking CLUE.

This is how we lose so fucking always in the long run.

NO.

Cha

(316,933 posts)
9. Cheating and Messing with our Democracy in Colorado..
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 04:48 PM
Saturday

"Harsh"? That's how much you think of it, Gov Polis?

Scrivener7

(58,401 posts)
10. If you are a Colorado resident, call his office and tell him he damn well better not.
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 05:25 PM
Saturday
https://www.colorado.gov/governor/contact-us

Then email him the same. Then do the same tomorrow and every day after until he backs off this.

Takket

(23,488 posts)
11. not much of a line to be drawn between drumpf running your state and someone who does what drumpf tells him to
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 05:29 PM
Saturday

running your state.

i sincerely hope a Democrat isn't going satisfy a MAGA fantasy.

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