March 13, 2022 01:54 PM UTC

Boebert Blows Stack Over Peters Allegation

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• by: Colorado Pols

As the Pueblo Chieftain reports–after last week’s indictment by Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters on multiple felony counts related to the theft and subsequent leakage of election system data, Democratic CD-3 challenger Adam Frisch of Aspen called for an investigation into possible ties between freshman GOP controversy entrepreneur Rep. Lauren Boebert and Clerk Peters.

Rep. Boebert responded on characteristic full tilt:

“The unsubstantiated accusations are libelous and have been forwarded to the Congresswoman’s legal counsel for review and possible legal action,” Boebert’s office said in response to a call from Democratic primary contender Adam Frisch for a federal investigation into Boebert’s ties to former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters.

Peters was indicted Tuesday on 10 criminal counts, including attempting to influence a public servant, identity theft, criminal impersonation and conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation…

Frisch said the grand jury that indicted Peters 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.”

Since the 2020 elections, there have been rumors we can best describe as speculative that Peters may have played a role in Boebert’s unexpected win over five-term incumbent GOP Rep. Scott Tipton in the Republican primary. Let’s be clear that to subscribe to such a theory would lend credibility to the idea that such tampering is even possible, and we don’t think under the plethora of safeguards that exist in Colorado elections it actually is.

Nonetheless, there is the unaccounted-for link between Clerk Peters and Rep. Boebert that hasn’t been fully explored, and that is Peters’ as-yet unindicted co-conspirator Sherronna “America’s Mom” Bishop. Before becoming Clerk Peters’ close confidante and traveling companion at last summer’s so-called “Cyber Symposium” hosted by “MyPillow Guy” Mike Lindell, Bishop and Boebert has similarly close–to the extent that Bishop served at Boebert’s campaign manager at least through the 2020 GOP primary. The circumstances and timing of Bishop’s departure from that campaign are unclear, but Bishop remained a steadfast ally of Boebert’s until Boebert “broke her heart” last November with a statement that was widely interpreted (including by us) of validating DA Dan Rubinstein’s conduct of the investigation into Clerk Peters.

That’s the same statement Frisch cites as evidence of “collaboration” between Boebert and Peters, so obviously there’s a difference of opinion! It’s true Boebert does preface everything in her November statement with criticism for the FBI and Peters’ presumption of innocence. Either way, is it libel for Frisch to call for an investigation of these individuals with very well-known connections and if not means, at least motive? If it was anyone other than Boebert we’d call that hyperbolic enough to raise its own questions. With Boebert having no other volume that full blast, it comes off as the usual unserious shrieking.

But you know who could shed some light on some of this were she so inclined? “America’s Mom”–who seems to be everywhere on the Western Slope, from COVID denial rallies to wading in with Lindell at a Garfield County School Board meeting. Sherronna Bishop is by all accounts the earned media equivalent of an ambulance chaser, so perhaps before the June 28th Republican primary in CD-3 she’ll open up about some of these unanswered questions.

You can just never be sure with people so certain that election tampering exists they’re willing to try it themselves.