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July 23, 2007 06:02 PM UTC

Rep. Rose's Recall Effort Collapsing, Rose Backpedaling

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  • by: Colorado Pols

It’s almost sad to watch this, as the Grand Junction Sentinel reports:

Seventh Judicial District Attorney Myrl Serra said Friday he has no probable cause to file criminal charges against a Montrose County Commissioner who is facing a recall effort.

A petition to recall Commissioner Bill Patterson, a Democrat, from office was based on documents given to Serra by state Rep. Ray Rose, R-Montrose, charging Patterson with “serious financial improprieties and accounting irregularities.”

“The result of the independent review is that based on the materials submitted, no probable cause exists for the filing of criminal charges in this matter against Commissioner Patterson,” Serra wrote.

Rose first announced the recall petition at a Republican fundraiser in late May, and he outlined his views on the recall effort during a news conference June 13.

But when asked Friday afternoon about Serra’s statement, Rose said he respected the decision and distanced himself from the recall effort.

“I didn’t support it,” he said. “I had nothing to do with it.” [Pols emphasis]

That seems to contradict statements Rose made in a two-page news release sent the day of his news conference in which he detailed Patterson’s alleged misdeeds…

Wow, that’s bad. The only thing worse than pushing a recall devoid of popular support is flopping like a fish when you realize how miserably you’ve failed. This will seriously impact Rep. Rose’s credibility going into next year’s election–in fact, from what we hear locally, it could be the end of Rose’s political career as he faces a competent Democratic challenger (unlike last year).

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10 thoughts on “Rep. Rose’s Recall Effort Collapsing, Rose Backpedaling

  1. What an embarrassment, costing the Montrose Govt (and taxpayers) tens of thousands of dollars for the recall election.  With ‘Republicans’ like this, who needs ‘tax and spend liberals’? 

    He should be ashamed of himself and just call it quits now.  To lie about his involvement when his fingerprints are all over it.  That’s just the icing on the elephant’s back, so to speak. 

    1. With ‘Republicans’ like this, who needs ‘tax and spend liberals’?

      It is the tax cut and spend republicans that have been driving this nation into the ground. You had reagan, now his clone in W. doing all that. I will take an honest t/s liberal over the numerous lying tax cut/spend republicans that we have now. In fact, come to think about it, that is why I voted dems in the last election (and would have 7 years ago, had the GF not been sick).

      1. about the hypocritical nature of the borrow and spend republicans.  It’s so completely simplistic, and ironic, to spend and borrow your country into a financial black hole and then claim  “well I didn’t raise any taxes like those damn tax-and-spend liberals !”, when you did exactly that, but to our children instead of us. 

  2. trying to do some good work for the public, instead of hatching vindictive partisan attacks for political gain. His constituents ought to be asking themselves if their state representative is really earning his pay.

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