Polis should resign

[Tasmanian Devil]

https://www.denverpost.com/2026/07/01/jared-polis-fires-clemency-board-members-tina-peters/

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis fired two members of his clemency advisory board Wednesday for publicly speaking against his decision to free Tina Peters after she was convicted of election-related crimes, his office confirmed to The Denver Post.

Polis removed Hannah Seigel Proff and Azra Taslimi from the advisory board because they “breached the required duty of confidentiality by publicly divulging board members’ votes,” according to letters from Polis reported Wednesday afternoon by the New York Times, which was first to break the news.

Following the 2020 election, Peters, then the Mesa County clerk and recorder, gave a person associated with election-denier Mike Lindell access to Mesa County’s voting system. She was found guilty of four felonies and sentenced in October 2024 to nine years in prison for the crimes.

Polis commuted her sentence in May, arguing that her sentence was “harsher” than people who were also convicted of attempting to influence a public official had received in other circumstances. He also argued that she was being punished for her speech.

[rpannier]

1. 1st thing the new gov should do is put them back on the board

[BeneteauBum]

2. Agreed!

I wonder what dirt on Polis pushed him in this direction.

Peace ☮️

[summer_in_TX]

3. Threats from Trump to strip money that otherwise would go to the state, I read.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. That could explain the cowardice in freeing Peters. But firing these two implies he wanted Peters free

unless you're saying Trump continued to threaten to strip money unless these two were fired - in which case, a decent politician would have made that public.

[summer_in_TX]

6. I don't keep up with Colorado that closely. So I don't know.

But it may be that the two did violate requirements for their participation in that committee, and that at least gave Polis a pretext.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. That's my point - if he wanted a pretext, then he was actually in favour of releasing Peters

If, in giving the pardon, he was just knuckling under to get the rightful money the state was due, he could have turned a blind eye to their actions.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. 'Lawyers Gun and Money' is blunter: "What the fuck is wrong with Jared Polis?"

Tina Peters’s ostentatious lack of remorse hasn’t stopped Polis from tripling down in the handjob he personally delivered to Donald Trump:
...
I admire their courage in calling out Polis’s grotesque betrayal of American democracy.

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/07/what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-jared-polis