Colorado’s Democratic Party central committee voted to censure Gov. Jared Polis after he commuted former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters’ prison sentence. Peters had been convicted of nine felonies related to election machine tampering connected to efforts to overturn Colorado’s election results. She received a nine-year prison sentence in 2024, and Polis said he believed the punishment was too severe. The commutation made Peters eligible for parole on June 1, 2026. The party said the decision materially harmed its institutional credibility and election integrity efforts, and it argued that weakening accountability for undermining trust was a mistake. The censure bans Polis from speaking or participating in state party events, and Polis said the action was politically motivated.
"The central committee of the Colorado Democratic Party voted for a measure to censure Polis for his commutation of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters' prison sentence. Peters was convicted of nine felonies in connection with election machine tampering in an effort to overturn the state's election results. The state voted for Joe Biden. Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison in 2024, which Polis said he believed was too much. He commuted her sentence, making her eligible for parole on June 1, 2026."
"CBS News reports that 89.8% of the state Democratic Party committee voted yesterday to censure Polis, a move that bans him from speaking or participating in events sponsored by the state party. "Colorado has spent years building trust in our elections and proving they are secure," the party said in a statement, accusing the governor of "materially harm[ing] the Colorado Democratic Party's institutional credibility and efforts to defend democratic institutions and election integrity.""
""At a time when democracy and voting rights are under attack across the nation, weakening accountability for someone convicted of undermining that trust is a mistake," the statement added. Polis claimed that the censure motion was politically motivated. "It's caught up in the zeitgeist of the partisan divide, which is a horrific thing that rips my heart apart,""
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