February 13, 2026 02:21 PM UTC

Chasing The Colorado Capitol Pedo Conspiracy To The Bottoms

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• by: Colorado Pols

Yesterday, 9NEWS’ Kyle Clark visited the Colorado Capitol trying to get a comment on a story we first reported on Monday: eye-popping allegations from GOP candidate for governor and state Rep. Scott “There Is No” Bottoms of Colorado Springs detailing the existence of not one, not two, but three separate pedophilia rings in the Colorado House, Senate, and governor’s office respectively. As we said then, these far-out accusations seem to be an attempt to recover lost ground in the Republican primary for governor, in which Bottoms is quickly being rendered the odd man out with frontrunner Victor Marx squaring off against career politician Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer in an increasingly two-way race.

And in a spectacle we haven’t seen since former Rep. Lori Saine fled from reporters over a box of racially-charged chicken, Bottoms made Clark chase him through the halls of the state capitol seeking answers that Bottoms of course did not have, while denying previous statements that Clark had all the receipts for:

BOTTOMS: Pedophilia runs through our House, our Senate, and our governor’s office.

CLARK: Republican state Rep. Scott Bottoms made that claim without offering evidence as he campaigned for governor last weekend.

BOTTOMS: We know who the people are, I’ve been working with the FBI for 3 years now. FBI outside the state of Colorado because I do not trust CBI, state police, or FBI in the state of Colorado.

CLARK: Bottoms wouldn’t agree to answer questions and repeated requests for a scheduled interview. Unscheduled interview time. So we showed up at the state capitol. Representative Bottoms, how are you? Kyle Clark, 9 News. You are alleging that there are pedophiles buying and selling children for sex, elected officials in this building who are pedophiles, and you’ve said that you will reveal this information if Colorado elects you governor. If you’re trying to protect kids…

BOTTOMS: I never said that…

CLARK: You actually did, we’ll play it here.

As we reported Monday, that is exactly what Bottoms said:

BOTTOMS ON VIDEO: We are going to drop the boom the moment that I’m governor. We’ve actually been talking about maybe doing it before, but the moment I’m governor, we’re going to shut down the pedophile rings that are in the House, in the Senate, and in the governor’s office.

CLARK: If you’re serious about protecting children, why not present that evidence right now to local law enforcement that is ready and willing to take your allegations and investigate.

BOTTOMS: There’s a major difference between awareness and justice. Justice is not what you do. Justice is what I do. FBI knows about it. FBI will bring it out when it’s time. I’m not the one that’s going to bring this out. I’m not a federal prosecutor. I’m not a federal law enforcement, and I never said I would do it when I’m governor. Show your fake video.

You’d think Bottoms would have learned his lesson the first time:

BOTTOMS ON VIDEO: When I become governor, because I know this information, I’m going to work very strongly with the FBI and we’re going to put people in jail.

CLARK: What if there’s no evidence? What if you just made this whole thing up?

BOTTOMS: I made the whole thing up.

CLARK: Yeah, that’s what I’m asking you.

BOTTOMS: Yeah, because you’re full of crap…

Believers in the QAnon and “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory canon accept without question the existence of pedophile rings behind every closed door, and would feel no reason to doubt the word of an ordained minister and elected state representative. And to get serious for just a moment, House Speaker Julie McCluskie rightly points out that as much as we joke about him, this insane babble from someone in Rep. Bottoms’ position poses real dangers:

MCCLUSKIE: I believe that we have a politician who is recklessly endangering others by making false allegations and accusations that are unfounded simply to garner attention. It puts all of us in danger.

It’s all fun and games until somebody shows up with a gun to “liberate the children.” When the movie-plot fantasy world conspiracy theorists have created and millions of Americans have now unfortunately internalized gets taken too seriously, terrible things can happen. If Bottoms wants a global pedophile conspiracy to scare his congregation with, he need look no farther than the Jeffrey Epstein scandal consuming Washington, D.C. for something truthful to talk about. Because he can’t do that, we get this.

And it could be the most attention Scott Bottoms ever receives, since after this it’s hard to imagine him being worth much more attention. With less then $10,000 in the bank in the last fundraising report, his campaign is just about out of gas and this humiliation should only hasten the end. Bottoms is not the only Republican politician trading for higher office on wild conspiracy theories, a practice the Trump era has normalized.

All we can hope is that they each see the day they’re chased through the halls on the run from their own words.