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February 05, 2025 10:23 AM UTC

"America's Hangman" For Governor, Anyone?

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  • by: Colorado Pols
Joe Oltmann.

One of the more colorful, and by that we mean unapologetically insane figures in Colorado politics our readers know well is election conspiracy theorist and gun store owner Joe Oltmann, the respondent in a defamation suit stemming from Oltmann’s fictional account of a conversation in which a Dominion Voting Systems executive supposedly made promises to throw the 2020 election to Joe Biden. Oltmann’s tall tale became the nucleus of a massive but baseless conspiracy theory pushed by Donald Trump’s 2020 election denial team, and helped motivate now-imprisoned Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters to breach election system security in a failed attempt to provide evidence backing Trump’s allegations up. Oltmann gained notoriety in years since with his threats to hang politicians he disagrees with from “gallows all the way from Washington, D.C., to California.”

But with Trump back in the White House, Oltmann may be attempting an about-face from politician hangman to…politician? Oltmann’s recent musings on the subject got our attention:

What if I ran for Governor of Colorado… did the same thing they are doing at the federal level and return 50-60-70% of your tax dollars back to you. Divert waste back to education and give those in the inner city a fighting chance with true resources for the poor and disadvantaged. Remove for profit prison systems, reform education standards by getting rid of unions. Stop funding schools in any way that have billion dollar endowments. Privatize government pensions just like the private sectors and eliminate the massive bonuses paid to government workers… build state mental institutions that address long term needs for the mentally ill, remove toll roads and ban foreign private equity firms profiteering from the people on our road and infrastructure. Review government contracts for bloat and ban those who through an audit are found to be egregiously charging for coffee cups or services not rendered. And what if we hold the public defenders (public pretenders) office responsible for the lives they have ruined by forcing pleas on innocent people.

Basically go full blown DOGE on the state of Colorado. Imagine if we did this all over the country.

Lastly, what if in all this we eliminated property tax on anyone who is over the age of 60.

How much sushi is Polis buying? Imagine the institutional rot these people represent…

What if… while I ponder true retribution against the antifa judge and the bullshit media. I’ll leave this with you.

“Bringing DOGE home to the states” is a popular Republican talking point right now, though we’d say its popularity by the next election is much harder to predict. Either way, while it’s refreshing to hear Oltmann discuss a subject other than hanging people he doesn’t like, we remain afraid that vesting executive power in a guy like Oltmann would bring out his latent desire for, in Oltmann’s own words, “true retribution” against his many enemies.

It would have been better to leave that part out, but that’s not how Joe Oltmann rolls.

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17 thoughts on ““America’s Hangman” For Governor, Anyone?

  1. No need to worry about this because the voting systems will be rigged to make him finish last, even behind Fiorino if this is the race he chooses to enter in 2026.

      1. Back when Twitter was a thing I reached out to Oltmann and offered to bring rope so he could hang me. If he wanted to hang "traitors" as he defined them to "make America great" then I, as a proud American and Marine Corps veteran, will (again) offer my life to make America great.

        My only stipulations were that he had to build the gallows in a public place and we had to broadcast my hanging live. I even offered to get Kyle Clark to cover it as a reporter.

        Oltmann never took me up on it. Not surprised at all. He's a piece of shit.

  2. Sorry, Joe. As a long time registered Republican, only one thing comes to mind when I hear your name. It's that song; "Gallows Pole, Hangman, Hangman, swinging from the gallows pole;" done by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant on their marvelous 1994 album (No Quarter (Unledded)). 

      1. @Marla… Traditional for who? If a song is in the public domain, then it's fair game for use. Lot of old English folk songs have been recorded in the modern music era. I also have the "Best of Acoustic Jethro Tull," which has a number of old English folk songs on it.

      2. Hi Marla, welcome to Pols. I see you have encountered our resident know-it-all. CHB likes to think he knows more about everything than anybody, particularly when it comes to music.

        You are correct about the folk origin of Gallows Pole, first recorded in 1939.

        Search for ” the Maid Freed from the Gallows”. Interesting reading.

         

        1. Maybe the Dukester should be less concerned about me and more so about himself. Elon Musk’s video gamer / tech bros now control federal payments. One of the wunder-kids hits the wrong button and there goes Duke’s financial records into the great beyond.

          1. Your concern for my well-being, however insincere, is touching. However, my isolation and poverty make me a very poor target for Elons' stormtroopers. I have no financial accounts and own nothing. Not a fat target by any stretch.

            Besides, I am not worried about it. Kevin Priola and a powerful band of moderate conservatives are about to appear and wrest the reins of power away from the Orange Horde. I have that on good authority.

            1. Thank Gawd for all those hundreds of millions of Real® Conservatives out there, each a profile in Republican courage, who so selflessly have been putting principle above party all these many years!  No telling where we’d be today without ’em?????

  3. “And what if we hold the public defenders (public pretenders) office responsible for the lives they have ruined by forcing pleas on innocent people.”  As a defense attorney, I can guarantee that Oltmann would use a PD if he needed one.  But good to know where I need to swing my one-iron.
    And where’s the prosecution’s responsibility in plea bargains? Oltmann should run. Would be nice to watch him fail to comply with campaign finance requirements that claim persecution, while he polls at 2%

  4. "Lastly, what if in all this we eliminated property tax on anyone who is over the age of 60."

    A load of shitty rural towns will get shittier. More and more of their grandkids will see them once a year. Then slowly those towns would die Joe. You would be defunding police Joe! AND fire departments JOE. Road construction and repair, water and sewer departments, and other local services JOE! (I won't bring up schools or libraries I have a feeling Joe doesn’t think people over 60 have uses for those places)

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