NEW: Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters (R) was arrested this morning by Grand Junction Police. Officers were responding to a request to assist local prosecutors on an investigation. Peters was released on scene and charges are pending, per police. #copolitics
Officers were serving a warrant to seize Clerk Peters' iPad on which she is suspected of improperly recording a court hearing involving her deputy clerk Belinda Knisley after a judge prohibited recording in the courtroom. It's the white iPad in the courtroom image below.
Clerk Peters denied to the judge that she was recording the hearing but an arrest warrant says "the iPadOS “camera” application was open, distinguishable with the red record button" and that an observer "saw that the view in the viewfinder was a live view of the
courtroom"
The arrest warrant directed Clerk Peters' iPad be seized for evidence in a felony prosecution for 'Attempt to influence a public servant'
UPDATE: Republican Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters appeared to attempt to kick a law enforcement officer while struggling with police during her arrest. This is video from a witness.
This tweet should read search warrant, not arrest warrant. I apologize for the error.
This tweet should read search warrant, not arrest warrant. I apologize for the error.
An earlier reference to an arrest warrant should have read search warrant. I apologize for the error.
I've asked the @cologop and chairwoman @ColoradoKbb if Clerk Peters should resign and whether they continue to have faith in her ability to carry out elections. We first asked those questions on August 12, 2021 and have yet to receive an answer.
@cologop@ColoradoKbb Clerk Peters faces local and federal investigations related to the breach of voting system security in her office. Protected files were given to Peters' fellow election rigging conspiracy theorists. She later fled the state under the protection of MyPillow guy Mike Lindell.
@cologop@ColoradoKbb Peters' home was raided by the FBI in November. Peters said overzealous federal agents left her "terrified." Prosecutors said Peters continued preparing breakfast during the raid. 9news.com/article/news/l…
Grand Junction Police are asking people to stop calling 911 to comment on the arrest of Clerk Peters.
The @cologop's chair @ColoradoKbb has released a statement following the arrest of Clerk Peters. We asked, as we have since Aug 2021, if Peters should resign. In short, the Colorado Republican Party said no. #copolitics
Tonight, Peters ally + fmr Trump advisor Steve Bannon called Colorado law enforcement "the Gestapo" and said, "We're taking over these election boards. This is a shot across the bow." Fellow conspiracy theorist Col Shawn Smith said, "This is the use of state violence by tyrants."
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NEW: Rep. Lauren Boebert claims credit for projects in Colorado even when she votes against the bills funding them. Boebert said in our #CO4 debate that she would still have voted no if she was the deciding vote, killing those projects she claims credit for now. #copolitics
#CO4 candidate Deborah Flora has called for parents to pull their kids from public elementary/middle schools. @cologop recently told parents to pull kids from all public schools. I asked Flora what America would be like without public education. She wouldn't directly answer.
#CO4 candidate State Rep Mike Lynch says he did not make a mistake in judgment in not disclosing his drunk driving arrest to his Republican colleagues when they were electing him House Minority Leader. He resigned after it became public.
NEW: Former Trump attorney @JennaEllisEsq agrees to a three-year suspension of her Colorado law license for a felony guilty plea in Georgia for attempting to overturn the 2020 election results. #copolitics
@JennaEllisEsq "Attorneys are often disbarred after being convicted of a felony, particularly where the conviction flows from criminal acts committed while acting as an attorney," the stipulation reads. "However, disbarment is not automatic, even for felony convictions."
@JennaEllisEsq "While disbarment is the presumptive sanction for [Ellis'] misconduct, it is significant that her criminal culpability was due to her conduct as an accessory, not as a principal," the stipulation says.
NEW: @msudenver says its own police force ziptied doors when protesters were in Tivoli Hall, not protesters. MSU Denver President Janine Davidson made the false claim in a public message to the community. #copolitics
@msudenver MSU Denver's false claim that protesters had locked doors with zipties came in a note from the President titled: "Protesters escalate tactics." This comes after @DenverPolice said that they would not sweep the pro-Palestinian encampment on the quad unless the situation escalated.
@msudenver @DenverPolice The false claim about protesters ziptying doors was removed from the MSU Denver's online statement without note or correction. After 9NEWS inquired, an online correction notice was added. The correction does not specify the source of the misinformation: @AurariaCampus Police.
NEW: #CO4 candidate State Rep @richard_holtorf unleashed a misogynist attack on GOP primary rival @laurenboebert today, saying Boebert dresses like a prostitute. "High heels, short skirt, low-cut blouse," Holtorf said on KNUS. "She needs to learn how to dress." #copolitics
Holtorf compared Boebert's outfits to prostitutes walking Colfax in Denver. "My five daughters, if they stood in front of me... dressed like Boebert, I would be disgusted," Holtorf said.
Holtorf is struggling to gain traction in a six-way GOP primary to replace Republican Ken Buck in Colorado's 4th Congressional District (DougCo, Loveland, Eastern Plains). Boebert holds an enormous fundraising and name ID advantage.
NEW: Election interference indictments in Arizona include Colorado attorney and convicted felon Jenna Ellis, and former CU visiting professor John Eastman, attorney for the @cologop, per WaPo. #copolitics
@cologop Here is the section of the indictment that appears to refer to John Eastman:
@cologop Here is the section of the indictment that appears to refer to Jenna Ellis:
Guys, the bananas are gone. You know what that means in Colorado. This snowstorm is for real. @nexton9news viewers noticed this storm prep gauge years ago and we can't unsee it.
Doug G documented the bananapocalypse at the King Soopers in Southlands
David C reports a few strays at the Kings at University and Hampden