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Takket

(23,806 posts)
Thu May 21, 2026, 06:16 AM Thursday

Colorado Democratic Party has censured Polis

NEW: The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters.

Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events.

90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.

Kyle Clark (@kylec.bsky.social) 2026-05-21T02:29:49.469Z


This is a good start but the DNC should follow their lead and do the same, or even better expel him from the party for this grotesque miscarriage of justice in service of a minion of drumpf.
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Colorado Democratic Party has censured Polis (Original Post) Takket Thursday OP
He's been a terrible disappointment JBTaurus83 Thursday #1
What else has he done FHRRK1 Thursday #28
Fantastic! TurboDem Thursday #2
As much as I love and admire Michelle... GiqueCee Thursday #4
When she said that, I was in Malaysia. I just yelled out "we just lost." AZLD4Candidate Thursday #8
100 % agree. TurboDem Thursday #9
She has explained it over and over again newdeal2 Thursday #11
Really? AZ8theist Thursday #30
Her husband said, "Look forward, not backwards" in regards to Cheney/Bush war crimes and corruption. displacedvermoter Thursday #12
I, too... GiqueCee Thursday #18
I love Obama but that was a big mistake MustLoveBeagles Thursday #20
As I recall Pelosi was saying that in 06 n/t FHRRK1 Thursday #27
She wasn't President taking over from what was, at the time, the most evil Administration in our history... displacedvermoter Thursday #29
When the Speaker of the House comes out against it two years before taking office .... FHRRK1 Thursday #32
The Buck Stops Wherever... displacedvermoter Thursday #33
that is lame FHRRK1 Thursday #35
I'll personally not support going to far as the risks are far to high. cstanleytech Thursday #13
Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events. Cha Thursday #3
I don't know why he didn't hold the line MustLoveBeagles Thursday #21
It is important to remember this was not some minor transgression of youth. Bluetus Thursday #36
TY for Pointing All That OUT!.. Exactly. Cha Yesterday #37
And after all of this, there are still people here attacking me Bluetus Yesterday #38
Not me... Fascist magas will do Anything to Cha 16 hrs ago #40
That's a good start CDP. Buddyzbuddy Thursday #5
Imagine Deathsentence or Abbott doing this for a Dem. House of Roberts Thursday #6
Good. Humiliate him. Indyfan53 Thursday #7
So now what? Maybe he quits the party? FakeNoose Thursday #10
I wonder if he'll lose any future support for running for any office in the future from them as well. cstanleytech Thursday #14
If he tries to run for US Senate in the future, he will be crushed in the Democratic primary. This is far from his only Celerity Thursday #19
GOOD! spanone Thursday #15
I can't even begin to tell you how pissed off I was when he did that. diverdownjt Thursday #16
Good riddance to a bootlicking coward. dalton99a Thursday #17
Yeah but Dump got his way Clouds Passing Thursday #22
He's a Libertarian Aepps22 Thursday #23
I'm impressed by CO Dems fujiyamasan Thursday #24
It's a problem we never seem to solve JBTaurus83 Thursday #25
Super proud of our Secretary of State! colorado_ufo Thursday #31
MaddowBlog-Colorado's Polis faces bipartisan pushback after commuting Tina Peters' sentence LetMyPeopleVote Thursday #26
Mealy-mouthed and spineless wolfie001 Thursday #34
Good! Any credibility he once had has now completely flown out the window. Initech Yesterday #39
bump......... Peters is attacking Democrats again Takket 16 min ago #41

JBTaurus83

(1,694 posts)
1. He's been a terrible disappointment
Thu May 21, 2026, 06:28 AM
Thursday

On so many issues. It’s obvious he’s bought and paid for.

TurboDem

(369 posts)
2. Fantastic!
Thu May 21, 2026, 06:37 AM
Thursday

We need to keep fighting the magats as best we can and not let up! No more going high when they go low.

GiqueCee

(4,773 posts)
4. As much as I love and admire Michelle...
Thu May 21, 2026, 07:03 AM
Thursday

... "When they go low, we go high" was not her best moment. But then, that was probably her speech writer's contribution. If we're talking lofty principles of statecraft, sure, but when we're in a do-or-die battle with psychopaths, and trying to survive in a blood puddle, as we are now, sound bites won't save us.

TurboDem

(369 posts)
9. 100 % agree.
Thu May 21, 2026, 07:45 AM
Thursday

I love and admire her too, but that's one line in her speech she should have crossed out.

AZ8theist

(7,650 posts)
30. Really?
Thu May 21, 2026, 08:21 PM
Thursday

I would imagine in the smoke-filled back rooms of the Reich Wing strategists, they were laughing their collective asses off at us for, ONCE AGAIN, bringing a butter knife to a gun fight. They knew they could get away with almost anything. The current level of corruption proves that point.

I think that comment costed us A LOT. But most of it, like Doturds corruption, remained unseen.
I'm only speculating, of course, but I don't think it's too much of a stretch to imagine what the fascists thought and how they proceeded.

displacedvermoter

(5,018 posts)
12. Her husband said, "Look forward, not backwards" in regards to Cheney/Bush war crimes and corruption.
Thu May 21, 2026, 08:01 AM
Thursday

That was the day "we lost", to be honest.

GiqueCee

(4,773 posts)
18. I, too...
Thu May 21, 2026, 09:03 AM
Thursday

... was disappointed with the decision not to at least pursue investigating Dubya's and Cheney's crimes. "Backwards" is the only way you can look when assessing whether or not something that has already happened is, in fact, a crime.
But, as I recall, that issue arose early in his first term, and going up against the monolithic Republican establishment might have been one of those "choose your battles wisely" moments. But we are still living with the consequences of letting those fuckers strut off into the sunset without being held to account for their blatant transgressions.
That can't be allowed to happen this time, no matter how much the senior citizens in Congress might waffle. And, being a senior citizen myself, I'm entitled to make that observation. So there.

displacedvermoter

(5,018 posts)
29. She wasn't President taking over from what was, at the time, the most evil Administration in our history...
Thu May 21, 2026, 08:09 PM
Thursday

FHRRK1

(143 posts)
32. When the Speaker of the House comes out against it two years before taking office ....
Thu May 21, 2026, 09:53 PM
Thursday

do you immediately create a fight with your own Speaker of the House, during an economic meltdown?

Look, we agree on the fact that W and Cheney should have been fully investigated, same with Reagan/Bush I team.

We can't make that mistake again. But if Jeffries comes out in November of '26 and states we need to look forward, then the problem originates with Jeffries.

cstanleytech

(28,604 posts)
13. I'll personally not support going to far as the risks are far to high.
Thu May 21, 2026, 08:25 AM
Thursday

A perfect example of the risks is the Republicans Southern Strategy and we are now seeing how much it's transformed them into an almost cult like party.

Cha

(320,742 posts)
3. Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events.
Thu May 21, 2026, 06:58 AM
Thursday

Oh, they're mad like we are. Polis would rather appease PEDO than be Honored by Dems.

NEW: The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters.

Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events.

90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.

Kyle Clark (@kylec.bsky.social) 2026-05-21T02:29:49.469Z


I'm so glad I saw this.. Good on Colorado Dems! Born and Raised in Denver.

Mahalo, Takkert

MustLoveBeagles

(17,348 posts)
21. I don't know why he didn't hold the line
Thu May 21, 2026, 09:37 AM
Thursday


He was winning by doing that. I don't understand what's to be gained by this? He either took a bribe or his family was threatened.

Bluetus

(3,094 posts)
36. It is important to remember this was not some minor transgression of youth.
Thu May 21, 2026, 11:43 PM
Thursday

Peters was an operative in a campaign to reverse engineer voting systems. This happened in multiple jurisdictions as a highly coordinated effort and it culminated in August 2024 with Trump declaring that Musk knows more about the "vote counting computers" than anybody else alive. And in particular, the ESS DS300 which is used in thousands of polling places in the 7 swing states. Perhaps she was just a cog, a very stupid cog, in the big wheel. But what she did was treasonous. And pardoning her is equally treasonous.

Cha

(320,742 posts)
37. TY for Pointing All That OUT!.. Exactly.
Fri May 22, 2026, 12:02 AM
Yesterday

The Verdict was Not "too severe"...

Are they kidding us, right now! JHC.

Freaking Gaslighting.

Bluetus

(3,094 posts)
38. And after all of this, there are still people here attacking me
Fri May 22, 2026, 10:35 AM
Yesterday

for pointing out these facts.

There is only one plausible reason for getting access to those election machines, and that is to reverse engineer.

And there is only one plausible reason for reverse engineering the election systems, and that is because of desire to tamper with them.

That much is obvious, that Trump wanted to tamper with the machines, that he organized people to break laws to get reverse engineering information, and did so in a persistent multi-location campaign. The only thing we don't know for sure is whether they were successful. Analysis of extreme variances in certain precincts in ALL SEVEN SWING STATES AND NOWHERE ELSE suggests very strongly that they WERE successful in this effort. Yet, given all of that, some people here remain in deep denial.

Cha

(320,742 posts)
40. Not me... Fascist magas will do Anything to
Fri May 22, 2026, 06:50 PM
16 hrs ago

Last edited Fri May 22, 2026, 07:56 PM - Edit history (1)

win elections. We haven't seen enough of that , over the last 10 years.

Mahe America Grotesque Again.

Thank You, Bluetus

Buddyzbuddy

(2,919 posts)
5. That's a good start CDP.
Thu May 21, 2026, 07:12 AM
Thursday
Keep it up. It won't clean up his mess but it puts everybody else on notice.

House of Roberts

(6,643 posts)
6. Imagine Deathsentence or Abbott doing this for a Dem.
Thu May 21, 2026, 07:29 AM
Thursday

Can't? Then that's why Polis deserves this.

FakeNoose

(42,466 posts)
10. So now what? Maybe he quits the party?
Thu May 21, 2026, 07:48 AM
Thursday

Good for the Dems to do this now before it goes one step further.

cstanleytech

(28,604 posts)
14. I wonder if he'll lose any future support for running for any office in the future from them as well.
Thu May 21, 2026, 08:27 AM
Thursday

S

Celerity

(54,921 posts)
19. If he tries to run for US Senate in the future, he will be crushed in the Democratic primary. This is far from his only
Thu May 21, 2026, 09:12 AM
Thursday

bad choice. He also was a centrist No Labels Problem Solvers Caucus member in the US House. Being a member of that bi-partisan group is always a huge red flag for me.

That group (No Labels was led for years by woeful Joe Lieberman) is far too often a force for bad outcomes/votes/stances/blockage against the vast majority of other Democrats, whether they are in the House or, in some cases, have moved on to higher office, like Polis or Sinema (ex US Senate) or now, far too often, Jacky Rosen (NV US Senator who has had multiple bad bad votes), etc.

Manchin and Sinema from the Senate worked/coordinated with the Problem Solvers (led for years by the oh-so-problematic Josh Gottheimer in the House) to block all but $987 billion out of $6.1 trillion of new spend in President Biden's 2 giant infrastructure bill frameworks during the first 2 years of Biden's first term. An 84 per cent destructive reduction in new spend.

So many vital programmes were either completely torn out or massively gutted. The already profoundly reduced human infrastructure BBB bill was then completely destroyed by Manchin in the Senate (the IRA that passed later was a pale imitation). Those wrecker/slash-and-burn actions played a major role in us losing the POTUS election in 2024.

diverdownjt

(748 posts)
16. I can't even begin to tell you how pissed off I was when he did that.
Thu May 21, 2026, 08:41 AM
Thursday

I mean we finally had one behind bar's for voter fraud...the one thing they yell and scream about...
Proof that it was not us committing fraud...but just more projection from the acolytes of DFT(donald fucking t-rump).
And my Gov. let's her go. This is the kind of self defeating shit that Dem=s have got to stop.

Aepps22

(414 posts)
23. He's a Libertarian
Thu May 21, 2026, 10:56 AM
Thursday

Polis was always a libertarian and used the party to win his position. He is very wealthy and kind of exposed himself during the pandemic. It seems like the wildfire relief funds from FEMA were finally approved but the price is extremely high and not what I voted for. Polis doesn’t care about anyone. I keep saying that if he truly believes what he was saying why did he wait to do this during the legislative session? We all know the answer which speaks to his grift and cowardice.

fujiyamasan

(2,063 posts)
24. I'm impressed by CO Dems
Thu May 21, 2026, 01:00 PM
Thursday

This was pretty swift. Openly condemning this and censuring a governor of the same party shows how fed up the party is with him.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he just becomes an independent at this point. Either that or he stays as a Dem and basically acts like Fetterman bashing the party the entire time for hurting his fee fees.

JBTaurus83

(1,694 posts)
25. It's a problem we never seem to solve
Thu May 21, 2026, 07:42 PM
Thursday

We always end up with these sell out grifters right when we need unity the most.

colorado_ufo

(6,264 posts)
31. Super proud of our Secretary of State!
Thu May 21, 2026, 09:16 PM
Thursday

Jena went before the Supreme Court arguing to keep Trump off the ballot because of January 6. She is now fighting to keep our mail ballots! She is a champion and amazing, brilliant and well-spoken with a steel spine! She fought to keep Peters in prison.

LetMyPeopleVote

(182,234 posts)
26. MaddowBlog-Colorado's Polis faces bipartisan pushback after commuting Tina Peters' sentence
Thu May 21, 2026, 07:57 PM
Thursday

The governor had plenty of time to come up with a defense for his decision. The fact that he pitched transparent nonsense points to an awkward conclusion.

Colorado’s Jared Polis had plenty of time to come up with a coherent defense for his Tina Peters decision.

The fact that he pitched transparent nonsense suggests that he really did succumb to Trump’s extortion efforts, but he’s reluctant to say so.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-05-18T19:41:34.610Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/colorado-jared-polis-tina-peters-backlash

At the outset, for example, Polis, who’s nearing the end of his second and final term, said Peters “did not commit any crimes regarding the 2020 elections.” When I heard this, I initially thought he simply misspoke, but he proceeded to repeat the claim several additional times in the same interview.

This was quite odd. The whole point of Peters’ crimes was that she was trying to substantiate false and conspiratorial claims about the 2020 election. For the governor to repeatedly tell a national television audience that her crimes were entirely unrelated to the 2020 race was bizarre.

But then he went further, telling Collins:

[Peters] has very strange beliefs. She’ll probably continue to have them. We don’t punish people in this country for having strange beliefs. … And that’s what happened here because, of her speech and what she believes, which I vehemently disagree with, and I share the passion and the emotions that so many people feel, who are outraged by the words she says. But the place to resolve those differences is by debate, by discourse, by arguing with her, with by disputing her. Not for keeping her behind bars, simply because of what she believes or says.


I don’t understand what it is that the governor doesn’t understand. No one has ever suggested that Peters should be imprisoned because of her very strange beliefs. Rather, many in both parties have argued that Peters should be held accountable because of all the felonies she committed.

This isn’t complicated. Conspiracy theorists are free to believe what they wish. It’s a free country. But when officials start using their offices to violate the public trust, literally breaking laws to advance their conspiracy theories, that’s qualitatively different....

Peters had her day in court and presented a defense. She also showed no remorse for all the felonies she committed. Her conviction, secured by a Republican prosecutor, was a no-brainer.

Polis had plenty of time to come up with a defense for his decision. The fact that he pitched transparent nonsense suggests that he really did succumb to Donald Trump’s extortion efforts, though the governor was reluctant to say so.

wolfie001

(7,988 posts)
34. Mealy-mouthed and spineless
Thu May 21, 2026, 10:41 PM
Thursday

Not the type of leadership that inspires Democratic voters. Very enervating.

Initech

(109,289 posts)
39. Good! Any credibility he once had has now completely flown out the window.
Fri May 22, 2026, 10:36 AM
Yesterday

Fuck Tina Peters and fuck Trump!

Takket

(23,806 posts)
41. bump......... Peters is attacking Democrats again
Sat May 23, 2026, 10:42 AM
16 min ago

Peters was out of prison for 5 minutes before she went right back to pushing election rigging conspiracy theories........

I will once again put forth that Polis should be expelled from the party for what he has done.

NEW: Tina Peters speaks out in defense of Colorado Gov Jared Polis (D), says the Democratic censure of Polis for granting her clemency is further evidence of an election rigging coverup.

Kyle Clark (@kylec.bsky.social) 2026-05-22T17:38:57.251Z
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