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(R) Trisha Calvarese
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January 13, 2015 03:45 PM UTC
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THIS IS A RIDICULOUS FISHING EXPEDITION BY THE FAR LEFT IN DENVER. NO CHARGES WERE FILED, BECKY MIZEL RETURNED THE DOCUMENTS SHE ACCIDENTALLY COLLECTED! WE KNEW THIS WAS COMING. HERE IS BECKY'S RESPONSE. SHAME ON YOU FOR ATTACKING A GOOD PERSON.
Looks like an honest mistake. Actually, that's almost refreshing considering some of the vicious voter suppression and Citizen's United style bribery now smearing our politics.
I'm not so sure it was honest, and reading the DA's letter it doesn't seem like he was buying it either.
Then please explain what evil purpose would be accomplished by taking home a document that can be legally read at the election office. Good luck with that.
I dunno, I wasn't there. But the letter from the DA says it was against the law.
Plenty of drunk drivers don't have an evil purpose; they break the law nonetheless.
I think the letter from the DA indicates that her actions were intentional and knowing (that she shouldn't be doing what she was). I'd bet it was because she saw a chance to "catch the clerk" in some election fraud and wanted to review or have reviewed the documents. Partisan idiocy isn't evil, but that doesn't mean she didn't knowingly violate the law.
There you go again, Voyageur, being quietly reasonable. Couldn't you at least use caps?
Why do I find Voyageur's comment so much more convincing than Pueblojangles' all caps hysteria?
ALL CAPS IS NEVER PERSUASIVE.
If this was an honest mistake, ask Ms. Mizel why she tried to sneak out the back way. Or why she was the only one to refuse to check her papers before leaving the Elections Office. Yes, I wa there, and observed it all.
Mama is right; this is a play right out of the GOP dirty playbook. Mizel had hopes of finding something to use against the Elections Dept or the Clerk. The lights were on late the Repub HQ on the night in question. Was she there with Harvie and others copying the document or scouring it for something usable?
She has lost all credibility.
*was there
dagnabbit
This is right out of the GOP election playbook. The playbook reads, "If there is no election fraud, create it,, and then accuse the Democrats of fraud. It's the same playbook Jon Caldara, Victor Head, Todd Shepherd of Complete Colorado,
The Pueblo GOP, has been accusing and insinuating that Democrats in general, and Clerk Ortiz in particular of fraud, lying, interference with elections, and anything else which they could throw at the wall and try to make stick.
If voters are voting normally, shake thingst up and create problems.
This one would read, "If all the numbers add up, steal some so that they don't, then accuse Clerk Ortiz of running a sloppy and uncertifiable election."
No wonder it was so hard to get the 2014 election certified, when it did not have the result that the Pueblo GOP desired, i.e., Victor Head elected to replace Ortiz.
It's very evident from watching the video that Mizel's concealment and theft were deliberate, no matter what she says. Weak sauce.
It's obvious what Mizel was doing. She consistently waited until Bo Ortiz was not looking. She obviously knew what those documents were since she flipped through them again before she concealed them.
Chostner should have pressed charges.
A watcher should not be in a place where they can access the documents being reviewed by the canvassing board. Even Gilpin County, where we had little spare space in which to work, had an area set aside for watchers which was out of arm's reach from the canvassing tables.
This is either a shortcoming in the Pueblo Clerk's office in handling the canvass, or a deliberate act by the Pueblo GOP chair. The Clerk's office alleges the latter; the response from Mizel pretty much suggests the former. If things are as Mizel describes, then I am particularly disappointed to see election reform activist Harvie Branscomb's name in a situation that he should have known was against proper election procedures.
Phoenix, the Canvass Board was co-opted by the Rs, as Harvie admitted in a letter to the Chieftain. The co-opted Board elected a Chair who allowed Harvie, Mizel and others to participate as if members of the Board.
Again, this was a coordinated effort to create the illusion of fraud. It began early in the Fall, when Rs and Libertarians were persuaded to change their party affiliations to the American Constitution Party in order to co-opt and disrupt the work of the Canvass Board.
So Mizel has changed her mind and will run again for Pueblo GOP chair. With Victor Head as vice-chair, no less.
The scary part is that they totally believe their own hype – that there is some wicked vast conspiracy to disenfranchise Republican voters in Pueblo. They just refuse to see that maybe the problem is that Pueblo voters don't like the way they carry on, with their threats and sneaking documents out and blocking certification and baseless accusations and expensive recall elections……
I'd like to think that there are some reasonable people in the Pueblo GOP who will want someone still conservative, but with common sense and respect for the rule of law. Time will tell.