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    Colorado Democratic Party censures Gov. Jared Polis after he commutes Tina Peters sentence

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    1. jayfeather31 on

      Good. I don’t know why Polis ever thought this was a good idea, because that was madness.

    5. km_2000 on

      What gets me is that we can’t take his explanations at face value, so we may not ever know the real reason he did this.

    6. DubsideDangler on

      Fuck him, but a censure from a blue state makes him eligible for a high ranking position in the GOP

    7. rustylung on

      This is like the end of a Scooby Doo episode where they pull the mask off and reveal that the culprit was actually a greedy pedophile member of the GOP

    9. Karsh14 on

      Anyone got the real scoop why he would put his neck on the line for…

      *checks notes*

      Tina Peters of all people??

      Does he know her personally or something? I don’t even think Trump would do this (if he didn’t get anything out of it).

    10. Carochio on

      He should do the correct thing and cancel the pardon. Let that Traitor complete the entire term of her sentence.

    11. Mobile_Morale on

      Remember people. The US going easy on the Confederacy lead to both the formation of the kkk and to the Dixiecrats turning the Republican party into the racist organization it is today.

      History shouldn’t repeat itself.

    12. BlackStarBlues on

      Good! If only he could serve the rest of Peters’ sentence. Colorado voters need to recall him too while they’re at it.

    14. This-Layer-4447 on

      I heard rumblings he was a fake progressive, but we went full facism huh?

    15. stevedaher on

      Looking at the US as a foreigner it is legally and politically a basket case. I’m not sure how many other western countries allow people in power to just release other people from prison.

      Completely bypassing the justice system

    17. PlainBread on

      >Polis said earlier that the petition by hundreds of Democrats that called for the action is politically
      motivated.

      I’m so fucking sick of the fascists insisting that anyone trying to hold them accountable is just “politically motivated”, as a way to insist that there is no need for them to ever be held accountable.

      Jared Polis is a soft little bitch.

    18. birdlawbighands on

      Wtf I didn’t even know this happened. What is wrong with everyone?

    19. tapdancinghellspawn on

      I wish there weren’t so many fucking cowards in the Democratic Party.

    20. keznaa on

      >”I think the fact this has seemingly become so partisan shows the problem with this case, frankly. No case should be viewed from a partisan lens. Each case is about an individual and the crime they committed.”

      >”Clearly, her free speech — however much we disagree with it — was used as a factor in that sentencing,” Polis said.

      She had a trial and a judge sentenced her, how can he be stupid enough to say this is partisan? It’s her lawyer job to argue if she was treated to an unfair trial/sentencing.

    21. boomgoon on

      Look at his finances, too many foreign parties are involved in this administration and putting so much money out for paid actors in and around anything political. Im sure he has something dodgy recently that attributed to this change of mind for giving someone who was trying to commit election fraud and did commit a felony, a commutation for their sentence

    22. CaptainMumble58 on

      He needs to be held in contempt in perpetuity.

      That pension you were hoping for? Good luck with that.

      Maybe Boebert will give you a complimentary handy at the next Rockies game.

    23. substantial_fun_time on

      I hate that we’re here. This has to be the stupidest, most insane move that Polis has ever done. It’s beyond idiotic. I just keep wondering what dirt the orange one has on him to get him to do this. He’s been in decline lately as a democrat but this move is in an entirely different galaxy than the democratic mission/values/position.

      However, for ONCE, a body of democratic leadership has had the balls to do something, anything, in response to an elected leader failing to uphold the positions they were elected under. AND they did it swiftly. We can usually count on democratic leadership to sweep stuff under the rug, roll over, go back to quietly supporting the old establishment. To be soft/take a high road only for it to make things worse. But they finally did something different. They spoke up and loudly upheld the party’s position.

      For that, I am hopeful. We need to see more of this kind of accountability. (We also need the accountability to be even more significant, widespread, and to reach the republican party too, but hey—progress is progress.)

      There are people in every party who are allowing themselves to be manipulated and choosing to compromise their ethics in the name of trying to save their skin. For democracy to work, they need to be called out AND HELD to the standard by which they swore they’d operate.