March 10, 2022 11:58 AM UTC

Boebert Wants Out Of Peters Pickle, But It's Not That Easy

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• by: Colorado Pols

UPDATE: The Pueblo Chieftain’s Lacey Latch reports:

A candidate hoping to be the Democratic Party’s choice to run for the Colorado District 3 seat in Congress in November has called for a federal investigation into Rep. Lauren Boebert’s ties to a former Colorado county clerk who has been indicted on felony and misdemeanor charges.

Aspen resident Adam Frisch said the grand jury that indicted former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters for her alleged role in a scheme to breach voting system technology may have missed “the breadth of the conspiracy or the breadth of the coordination that was going on between Rep. Boebert and her staff and Tina Peters and her staff.”

“No one is above the law, regardless of what position they hold,” he told The Chieftain.

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With Clerk Tina Peters now cooling her proverbial heels in Mesa County’s finest involuntary accommodations with a $500,000 cash-only bond, we’re watching for a response from a close associate of Clerk Peters whose property was also raided by law enforcement during the investigation late last year, Sherronna Bishop. Bishop is the self-described “America’s Mom” who accompanied Peters on “MyPillow Guy” Mike Lindell’s private jet to the ill-fated “cyber symposium” last August, where Peters’ culpability in the theft of proprietary data was celebrated and then quickly hushed up as the legal ramifications became evident.

Bishop’s ongoing role in the Tina Peters saga is a persistent headache for freshman GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert. Bishop was Boebert’s campaign manager during the 2020 Republican primary election, in which the formerly unknown Boebert snuck up on somnolent incumbent Rep. Scott Tipton for a win no one expected. Since Boebert’s surprise victory over Tipton, rumors have swirled about funny business in the Mesa County Clerk’s office that may have lent a hand:

If they don’t investigate every single election Tina and Brenda ran while in office then this is all just for show.

Is it the first time they committed felonies while supervising elections, or just the first time they got caught?#copolitics https://t.co/e0IB0GAn9d

— Rural Colorado United (@RuralCOUnited) March 9, 2022

In a press release today, Democratic CD-3 congressional challenger Adam Frisch called for a full investigation into Rep. Boebert’s ties to Tina Peters vis-a-vis Bishop:

Boebert and Peters collaborated on a regular basis – the latest of which was their orchestrated statements on November 21, 2021 criticizing the investigation of Peters which, as of yesterday, has led to 10 criminal charges.

In these statements, Boebert also criticized the investigation of Sherronna Bishop, whose home was raided by the FBI in relation to the Peters investigation; but fails to mention that Bishop was Boebert’s campaign manager during the 2020 elections.

“This morning I sent a letter to the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado demanding an investigation of Lauren Boebert. The activities of Boebert and her allies are under scrutiny for a good reason. It is un-American and a complete betrayal for a candidate and their allies to undermine the security and integrity of our elections, and we need to know the truth,” said Adam Frisch.

Back in November, Rep. Boebert asked for a meeting with Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubenstein regarding the Peters investigation, and released a carefully-worded statement that sought to extricate Boebert from the controversy but ended up enraging Bishop and Peters’ supporters. After Peters turned herself in yesterday, Boebert released another careful statement saying Peters “deserves a fair trial and to be presumed innocent.” There’s a lot we don’t know about the relationship between Boebert and Sherronna Bishop, but she’s the missing link between Boebert and Peters that either answers many questions or raises many more. When exactly did Boebert stop working with Bishop during the 2020 elections? Did either Boebert or Bishop have any contact with Clerk Peters during the 2020 GOP CD-3 primary?

These are questions that only Boebert can answer, and she needs to answer them now more than ever. Because we can now say credibly that breaking the law in the misguided pursuit of a “higher calling”–in this case the “Big Lie” that the 2020 election was stolen–is not beneath Tina Peters or Sherronna Bishop.