Rep. Ken Buck, chair of the Colorado GOP, is hosting a virtual event on election security and integrity with three Republican county clerks.
Buck is asking questions from viewers and the clerks are answering them, repeatedly describing how secure CO elections are. #copolitics
The Zoom call is being streamed on CaucusRoom, a conservative social media site.
There's a huge contrast between CaucusRoom users sharing conspiracy theories in the chat box while the GOP county clerks plainly describe how each step of the election process is secure. #copolitics
So far, this has been a great public service. On a conservative platform, conservative clerks are describing Colorado's election system in detail, speaking to its security.
CaucusRoom users in the comments are not happy. One guy keeps posting, "Smoke and Mirrors!" #copolitics
"We have a system here in Colorado that meets our unique needs," says Chuck Broerman, county clerk in conservative El Paso County, as he discusses the much-maligned Dominion.
"The Dominion system gives us what we need, no more and no less." #copolitics
As these Republicans reiterate time and again that Colorado elections are safe and secure, commenters on conservative CaucusRoom are not having it.
"Anyone who has watched the hearings KNOWS this is BULLSHIT."
"NOT Buying it!"
"Not convinced."
"WE WILL VOTE YOU CLOWNS OUT."
"We are the gold standard when it comes to elections," says Weld County Clerk Carly Koppes, Republican
"It is absolutely amazing," says Montrose County Clerk Tressa Guynes, Republican
"Arguably the best system in the country," says El Paso County Clerk Broerman, Republican
Rep. Ken Buck, chair of the Colorado GOP: "Our votes are not being manipulated...To have some conspiracy theory in Colorado that something has been manipulated and the Russians or Iranians or some group - George Soros or somebody else - is doing something to our system..."
"I talked to Carly (Koppes, Weld County clerk) first. I talked to Chuck (Broerman, El Paso County clerk) second. I am convinced that's not happening. If you're not convinced, continue to send the state party questions and if necessary, we'll have another one of these" #copolitics
Republican Rep. Ken Buck: "It is so important that people have confidence in their elections and people understand that in Colorado — I can't speak for other states, but in Colorado — we're doing it the right way and we have confidence in our election results." #copolitics
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Hickenlooper is not currently on the video conference but is available to testify, according to his attorney.
The commission seems to have softened when it comes to punishing Hickenlooper. They're eager to hear his testimony before they considering sanctioning #cosen#copolitics
John Hickenlooper has arrived, in a shirt and tie, on the video conference. Suzanne Staiert, with the Public Trust Institute, has begun quizzing him.
"I support Amendment 41, yes," Hickenlooper says, referring to the gift ban he's accused of violating. #cosen#copolitics
John Hickenlooper is not at the Ethics Commission hearing into his alleged violations of the Colorado gift ban.
A leading U.S. Senate candidate seems to be openly defying both a subpoena and a judge's order. Remarkable. #cosen#copolitics
On the other hand, this meeting is a massive technical mess, which speaks directly to what Hickenlooper and his attorneys have been saying, that WebEx is no way to conduct a hearing into a serious matter. #copolitics#cosen
Colorado's Independent Ethics Commission is in executive session as it talks with its attorney from the AG's Office.
A Hickenlooper attorney is at the meeting now. There wasn't one when it began.
@Hickenlooper On a question about abortion, Hickenlooper says, "“I support a woman’s right to choice, no matter what.”
People who want to cut Planned Parenthood funding “should be punished, in the court of public opinion and at the ballot box," Hickenlooper adds. #cosen#copolitics
@Hickenlooper Hickenlooper is asked if he supports student loan forgiveness.
“I’m not sure that we want to be writing off everybody’s debt and I’m not sure the children and grandchildren of millionaires should have their debt forgiven – should have free college."
This is the scene at @RepKendraHorn’s first town hall of her career, in northwest Oklahoma City. There are about 100 people here. I’ll tweet at times over the next couple of hours. #okpol
“We’ve been in sort of a unique time," Horn says of her first three weeks. The crowd laughs. “That’s sort of an understatement, right?”
"We should never be using our federal employees as pawns in any disagreement," she says, her first clap line of the day. #okpol
“I think we have to put everything on the table and we have to listen to the experts” on securing the border, Horn says. A "combination” of tactics are needed.
She touts legislation she co-sponsored with Reps. Mullin and Cole, both Republicans, to fund Indian Health Service.
JUST IN: After a nearly five-year investigation, the House Ethics Committee has told @RepMullin to repay $40,000 to a company he wasn't supposed to have ownership in.
The report largely clears Mullin of everything but an accounting error. He had been accused of unethically endorsing his former company and receiving outside income beyond what is allowed. ethics.house.gov/sites/ethics.h…
THREAD: Through open records requests and interviews, I’ve come across what is either an incredible coincidence or highly suspicious behavior by the Oklahoma attorney general related to the Tar Creek corruption case.
Follow along as I explain. It won’t take long. (1/7)
As you’ll recall, Oklahoma AG Mike Hunter fought an open records lawsuit for six months between November and April as part of an unprecedented effort by he and his predecessor, Scott Pruitt, to prohibit release of the state’s investigation into Tar Creek. newsok.com/concealment-of…
Then, on April 9, Hunter inexplicably ended the legal battle and released the Tar Creek audit, much to the surprise of plaintiffs, auditors and, well, just about everyone.
Why release the audit on April 9 after fighting it for so long? I think I may have found the answer. (3/7)