Doug Grinbergs ☮️

If I have the honor of becoming Colorado’s next governor, Jared Polis will not be considered in my place.

I’m calling for an investigation and articles of impeachment for Governor Jared Polis and his commutation of Tina Peters. Tina Peters was convicted on seven counts, including four felonies, for allowing unauthorized access to Mesa County’s voting system, lying to investigators, and obstructing the Colorado Secretary of State. She was sentenced to nine years by a jury of her peers. The Republican prosecutor who put her there called it the most aggravated attempt to influence a public servant he had ever seen. While Governor Polis has the authority to commute that sentence, he expressed no interest in doing so until Donald Trump pressured him to. Like so many of our elected leaders in this moment, the Governor chose appeasement and capitulation over democracy. A governor who uses a constitutional power to assist an unlawful federal coercion scheme has violated his oath to defend the U.S. Constitution and Colorado’s independence. This is grounds for impeachment. I am calling for an immediate investigation into any collusion between Jared Polis and the Trump administration. I am also calling on the Colorado State Legislature to convene a special session to consider articles of impeachment against Governor Polis. The election officials of Colorado fought honorably to protect your vote. Jared Polis undid that work by buckling to Trump’s threat to withhold public funds from hungry Colorado children, clean water, and disaster relief. My generation has seen the consequences of Democrats not standing up for justice, and we refuse to continue down this path. We are sick of corporate politicians putting their donors, ambition, and privilege ahead of real people. The answer to authoritarianism is not accommodation. Donald Trump‘s corrupt acts compound one after the other, and if we allow this corruption to go unanswered, it will erode what little is left of our democracy.

The NY Times published its piece insinuating that Graham Platner's $200,000 home makes him an oligarch on literally the same day Sen. Susan Collins' new financial disclosure shows she is worth literally millions of dollars. It's a reminder that there's no such thing as "objectivity" - a news outlet's story selection is a sign of its subjective viewpoint and its goals. Of course, all candidates deserve scrutiny — but the point here is that what corporate news outlets decide to cover and not cover is a subjective and often ideological decision, even if they then write the stories in the language of objectivity. Everyone should stop pretending “objectivity” is a thing. It’s not. Fairness and accuracy is — but the moment decisions are made that something is news (say, Platner’s modest house) and something isn’t news (say, Collins’ massive wealth), there is inherently no objectivity. It would be better for outlets just to be more honest and admit what their goals, values and viewpoints really are.