Tina Peters deserves due process, not political clemency. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has sent a dangerous signal to election deniers that with enough political pressure, accountability becomes negotiable. (MS NOW)
Being pissed off, for me, does not just stop with the Christian Nationalist/Fascists MAGA Republicans, those who believe that Democracy is useless when it doesn’t work in their favor, but when I witness injustice, or is it indifference by Democrat politicians, my ire and anger must be shouted out toward their careless, and “let’s fuck the Constitution actions.
The Democratic Governor of Colorado just provided the same middle finger used by the Republicans to the Constitution and the American public, by permitting clemency toward a very insidious and evil person, who decided that she was the one who could fuck around with democracy.
Tina Peters was found guilty “by a jury of her peers — in conservative Mesa County — on seven counts, including four felonies, of orchestrating an illegal breach of her county’s voting equipment. She let an unauthorized outsider into a secure elections room, directed staff to shut off surveillance cameras and copied hard drives from voting machines — all to try to prove conspiracy theories about the 2020 election that were never true.” (MS NOW)
Why this should matter, I believe, is evident, but I will shout it out, as I see it. Peters tried her best to deny the people of Colorado their ability to keep their votes legitimate. Peters was found by a jury of her peers to have committed various crimes. Tina Peters gave zero shits about truth. She deserved prison time, and now wham bam thank you, Governor Polis, you too, are playing the same Tina Peters game by saying screw all that law and order, I am more powerful, and I will determine right from wrong.
The other real thing here is that so far, Trump and his Fascist Republicans are doing everything in their power to undermine the Midterm elections. From canceling the Voting Rights Act to gerrymandering districts, the Trump Reich has also been screaming that voting is somehow rigged, especially when the Republicans lose. By ignoring the crimes of Tina Peters, Governor Polis, as I see it, is sanctioning anyone who wants to truly rig the elections to do so, and not to pay any consequences for their felonious actions. Shame on you, Governor Polis, shame.
