Plaudits for bipartisanship! Dan Rubinstein, the Republican Mesa County district attorney and Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, a Democrat, urged Gov. Jared Polis in a recent letter not to acquiesce to demands by the Trump administration to transfer former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters to federal custody. Another letter by the Colorado County Clerks Association counsels the same.

They are right. Under no circumstances should Peters be transferred out of La Vista Correctional Facility in Pueblo , where she is serving a nine-year sentence. Peters committed multiple felonies in connection with an illegal 2021 scheme to grant unauthorized access to voting equipment in an attempt to prove the election was stolen from her candidate. Peters’ crimes cost taxpayers millions of dollars to

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