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Tina Peters’ lawyer has said this a couple of times over the past 24 hours.
Polis’ tweet Tuesday removed whatever doubt remained about his intent to commute Peters’ sentence. But I wouldn’t expect it in the next few days.
New: Colorado Democrats blast Gov. Jared Polis as he again hints at intervening in Tina Peters' prison sentence. His office confirms it won't be a pardon, though. www.denverpost.com/2026/03/04/j... via @sethklamann.bsky.social @coltrain.bsky.social
Colorado lawmakers advanced a bill Tuesday that would give voters more time to vote and drop off their ballots amid President Donald Trump’s threats to buck the Constitution by trying to nationalize elections // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social
TL;DR - Some in/around state government had expected Polis to lessen Peters’ sentence weeks ago, well before SJL’s sentencing. His comments tonight scan, to me, like someone who’s reached a conclusion and is working backwards from there.
As we’ve reported, there are 11 people who’ve completed a prison program and are eligible to be released *right now*. But Polis, personally, has to approve it, but he’s refused to because he doesn’t want the authority. So they’re languishing. www.denverpost.com/2026/01/16/c...
The state’s prisons are overflowing, but Polis has been so resistant to working with the legislature to release eligible inmates that lawmakers had to briefly hold prison funding hostage this year just to get Polis’ staff to the negotiating table.
All else aside, it’s hard to describe how disingenuous this comparison is. SJL faked letters of support to duck a state legislative ethics probe. Peters participated in a plot to undermine Colorado’s elections and has spent her brief time in prison getting in fights and earning write-ups.
This is not true.
There’s been a concerted effort to convince Polis not to do this, and legislators have warned that they won’t just let it slide, either. And yet.
Not a surprise at this point, but Polis seems intent on leapfrogging the Court of Appeals - which is already weighing the length of Peters’ sentence - & intervening himself.
It should perhaps be noted that same charges =/= same facts or intent. And Peters was also convicted of seven total charges.
Gov. Polis dropping some preemptive justification for his (very likely) intervention re: Tina Peters’ prison sentence:
The first of Colorado Democrat’s legislative affordability package dies at its first hurdle. HB 1012 would’ve prevented venues like airports, stadiums and concert venues from charging “unreasonably excessive prices.” Three Democrats join with the House Judiciary Committee’s 4 Republicans to kill it.
Israel says Khamenei has been killed.
www.reuters.com/world/iran-c...
Inhumanity and insanity. The sort of thing a dying empire does.
Same aggressor, same type of target.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has moved to drop his 9-month effort to comply with a federal immigration subpoena, arguing that ICE officials apparently no longer need the employment records the governor had sought to turn over // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social
Colorado forensic officials have slashed the turnaround time for sexual assault kit testing, but it still takes analysts more than six months to process and complete a test, a new state audit found // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social
“The root cause of the fraud was an overly generous rate that was so lucrative that people were willing to commit crimes to get that rate,” a Colorado medical transportation provider tells @sethklamann.bsky.social
Top Democratic officials who worked on the party's still-secret autopsy of the 2024 election concluded that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration's approach to the war in Gaza, Axios has learned.
HCPF*.
The upshot is that Colorado and the federal government were paying far more than they should’ve been for three years, despite two providers flagging the issue to HCP. In that time, the program was besieged by fraud, and expenses exploded from $70 million, to $212 million, to more than $300 million.
It took 10 days to get something vaguely resembling a straight answer from Colorado’s Department of Health Care Policy and Financing for this story. And even then, they shifted blame to the providers — even though providers were following the agency’s own, multi-year instructions.
A state Medicaid program’s costs tripled in a year after officials recommended an underlying payment rate get a hefty bump.
But that recommendation was based on a flawed analysis that compared what other states paid for ambulances with what Colorado should pay for Subarus.
Neighbors showing up for each other.
This is how Colorado faith leaders and parishioners are organizing, leading the charge & quietly supporting their immigrant neighbors while loudly protesting ICE
www.denverpost.com/2026/02/22/c... via @denverpost.com
The owners of the Edge of Lowry, a troubled apartment complex where gang allegations drew Trump’s attention, have agreed to pay Aurora $300,000 to end a lawsuit the city brought to recoup costs of closing and maintaining the property, per @katielang.bsky.social www.denverpost.com/2026/02/19/e...
A plan that would give Democratic congressional candidates a strong edge in Colorado — and put a temporary hold on the state's independent redistricting process — could go to voters in November under proposals filed today // Story by @coltrain.bsky.social and @sethklamann.bsky.social
"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)
