TINA PETERS RESPONDS TO GOP’S INAPPROPRIATE PRESS RELEASE — Tina Peters for Colorado
TINA PETERS RESPONDS TO GOP’S INAPPROPRIATE PRESS RELEASE
March 16, 2022
(CORRECTED: An earlier distributed version of this press release contained an editing error on page 4 paragraph 1, incorrectly attributed the sworn testimony as referring to Dominion technicians instead of a Secretary of State employee.)
Both Colorado and national news stories again last week featured Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who is the main Republican threat to defeat Colorado’s Secretary of State Jena Griswold, in November’s general election. Progressives in Colorado, in both political parties, continued tactics of personal destruction against Peters, in an attempt to get her to suspend her campaign and let moderate Republican candidate, Pam Anderson, win the primary.
Consumers of mainstream media saw intense messaging about Peters that were clearly designed to erode political support from her. The fearmongering phrase, “Peters, who if elected may try to overturn elections,” was repeated by multiple outlets, even readers of the New York Times saw it slathered there. That coordinated messaging is a commonly-used tactic by progressives in both political parties. And last week’s attacks were designed to isolate her, to spook Peters’ weak party allies into crumbling. It worked with the state GOP leadership, especially Republican Chairwoman Kristi Burton Brown.
The legal bullying phase was front and center last week against Tina Peters, and other members of her Mesa county staff. Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubenstein encouraged the indictment and arrest of Peters, related to Peters’ 2021 efforts to record evidence of Dominion voter machines deleting voter files. In a suspiciously-timed attack, Kristi Burton Brown, Chairwoman of Colorado’s Republican Party, sent out a press release, just minutes after Rubenstein’s indictment against Peters was made public.
Brown somehow learned about Rubenstein’s plans before Peters did and didn’t bother to contact the Tina Peters for Colorado Campaign. Brown didn’t make a professional, respectful request. Instead, in a political stunt, she virtue signaled at Peters through the mainstream media, to suspend Peters’ campaign for secretary of state. Brown cited Peters’ indictment, as justification for her inappropriate demand. It’s important for Republican primary voters to note, almost all of the indictment is based on partisan accusations by Democrat Secretary of State Jena Griswold. Chairwoman Brown received a correspondence-school degree in law and is not licensed by the Bar to practice law in Colorado. Colorado’s Attorney General cautioned, that charges are not proof of any wrongdoing.
The Republican chair’s press release amounts to an endorsement of Peters opponent, and just weeks before Peters’ primary election against moderate Republican Pam Anderson on June 28th. That decision by Brown may have significant party ramifications for the Republicans. Many unhappy Republican activists across Colorado contacted Brown, stating that her press release clearly violated the rules of impartiality required in her role as chairwoman.
Tina Peters was asked to respond to the Chairwoman’s release, “Chairwoman Brown’s press release was more egregious than the political grandstanding of typical RINO’s. Her histrionic public plea was intended to benefit one candidate over another. She violated the rules of impartiality required by the bylaws of the Republican Party of Colorado. Brown should consider stepping down.”
Brown knew that Peters’ moderate Republican opponent, Pam Anderson of Denver, was coming under fire from conservatives. Earlier in the week the Peters for Colorado Campaign had outed Anderson’s role as a director for a Mark Zuckerberg-funded, political organization, known as the Center for Technology & Civic Life. That organization is under criminal investigation for what former Wisconsin Chief Justice Michael Gableman labeled as, elections bribery in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Brown’s press release drew attention away from Pam Anderson’s quiet announcement the next day, that Anderson was taking a “leave of absence” as a director from Zuckerberg’s Center for Technology & Civic Life. Screen shots of the Center for Technology & Civic Life’s web site, techandciviclife.org, previously described Anderson as a valued director and praised the moderate Republican candidate. “Pam Anderson brings an appreciation for political diversity to the board.”
“Appreciation for political diversity? That above all things should most certainly not be a goal of any candidate running to represent the Republican party,” said Peters.
“The goals for a secretary of state should be transparency and integrity. I’m being persecuted by the progressives and the moderates in my own party, for attempting to do that very thing, make elections transparent. All while the establishment is simultaneously giving cover to a Zuckerberg Republican who may have been directing a group that was secretly tampering with elections against Republicans. Everyone knows that Mark Zuckerberg is the warden of Facebook jail for conservatives, right? This duplicity by Republican leaders is why conservatives are leaving the party.”
Insiders close to Brown said that after the blowback she received from Republican rank and file members, regarding her inappropriate press release against Peters, that Brown briefly considered walking back part of her public statement. However, she has since bristled at the uncomfortable critique of her performance as chairwoman and doubled down on her demand for Peters to suspend her campaign.
All the while, the public evidence proves Tina Peters was correct to follow Colorado’s election code and preserve access logs and other vital records required to conduct a valid election audit for the Mesa County election. It also renders her indictment as pure political retaliation. Forensic reports of the evidence are posted at www.TinaPetersforColorado.com. These detailed reports demonstrate that in addition to documenting nearly thirty-thousand access and adjudication log files that identified who entered the system and what changes they made, the Dominion voting machines contained twenty-six wireless devices, making the machines vulnerable to outside manipulation.
*Sworn testimony revealed that a secretary of state employee confirmed that the software update installed in 2021 on Dominion voting machines was designed to delete files from the voting machines. (CORRECTED: An earlier distributed version of this press release contained an editing error incorrectly attributing the above sworn testimony to Dominion technicians instead of the secretary of state employee.)
But on Wednesday March 9th, the Republican District Attorney in Mesa County, Dan Rubenstein, worked in concert with allegations from Democrat Secretary of State Jena Griswold. He indicted Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who is likely Griswold’s Republican challenger in the Colorado general election for secretary of state. Griswold informed Rubenstein last year that Peters had imaged and preserved election records without “proper” authorization from her. Rubenstein convened a grand jury and presented Griswold’s accusation that Tina Peters refused to sign an edict from Griswold. Griswold wanted Peters to abandon her first Amendment right of free speech and recant a statement Peters had posted on Facebook. Peters’ stated that she desired that the voting equipment be made transparent to the voters. Her duty required Peters to preserve all voter records for twenty-five months. Rubenstein, manufactured an indictment based on Griswold’s politically-motivated claims and timed a warrant for Peter’s arrest so it would have the greatest impact on an election that he doesn’t want Peters to win.
Rubenstein, who is an outspoken critic of both President Trump and Peters, attended a Republican County luncheon on Monday March 1st. where Peters was scheduled to speak as a candidate. When Peters took the podium to address the crowd, District Attorney Rubenstein rose from his table and stood intimidatingly, staring directly at Peters as she gave her two-minute campaign speech. Peters’ primary opponent, moderate Pam Anderson, holds political positions that align more closely with Rubenstein’s.
On Wednesday afternoon on March 9th, while Peters was speaking at another campaign luncheon, she learned of an arrest warrant via a just-delivered press release, sent out by Colorado Republican Chairwoman Kristy Burton Brown. Brown demanded that the Peters for Secretary of State campaign be suspended. Brown cited the indictment as the justification for her call for Peters to suspend her campaign.
Rubenstein’s indictment was announced March 9th and Peters respectfully turned herself in to her local authorities a few hours later, with the expectation that she would be granted the typical personal recognizance bond, and be free to return to the campaign trail to unseat Democrat Secretary of State Jena Griswold. Instead, the district attorney, in a despicable act towards a duly elected official, over what amounts to a political dispute, demanded an unprecedented half-million-dollar cash bond. Peters was arrested and placed in a dirty jail cell with five other women. She was forced to sleep on a one-inch plastic pad on the wet floor. Rubenstein delayed Peters’ hearing the next day and held Peters in her cell for thirty hours.
Then in unimaginably tragic timing, while Rubenstein had Peters incarcerated, on the night of March 9th, Tina Peters’ 94-yr-old father, Jacob Payne, who was blind from an extended illness and had several recent hospitalizations due to infections, passed away in North Carolina.
After delaying her hearing, Rubenstein requested that the judge restrict Peters’ out of state travel, preventing her from attending her father’s funeral in Virginia. Its unfathomable that a candidate for secretary of state would be a flight risk, yet the restriction was granted. That travel restriction will also limit Peters’ ability to attend any out-of-state events to raise money for her secretary of state campaign. The judge granted Rubenstein’s request to strip Peters of her constitutional right to travel, before releasing her on a $25,000 cash bond. But the reduction included the egregious requirement that the cash bond be paid only by Peters’ and she had to put up her house as collateral for the bond. If Peter’s goes to her office, communicates with any of her employees, travels out of state or any of a number of punitive and restrictive measures, then she forfeits the $25,000.
Rubenstein still wasn’t satisfied with the level of pressure being applied against Peters. The next day Rubenstein’s office directed one of his investigators named Michael Struwe, to begin calling Peters’ grieving family in North Carolina, Chicago and Virginia. Struwe appeared to be trying to disprove that Tina’s father had died, and his calls upset many of Peters’ family. To date Struwe has made nearly a dozen harassing and threatening calls to Peter’s mother, daughter, and sisters. Struwe, threatened contempt if the family members didn’t want to cooperate with him during their grief. Struwe actually inferred on one call that their father’s death may have been an intentional drug overdose and that Peters’ sister may have been complicit.
Struwe was so eager to do Rubenstein’s bidding to intimate Peters, that Struwe even called another deceased man’s family who unfortunately had the same name as Peters’ father. Peters must now make a special petition to the judge to even be allowed to bury her father.
When even the typically disinterested citizenry learns about cruel acts of intimidation and retaliation committed by public officials, especially acts committed by those in law enforcement, they usually respond with anger towards the perpetrators and with sympathy towards the victim.
When asked if she was angry about her treatment, Peters said, “Conservative whistleblowers are not treated kindly by Marxists or by their progressive allies in law enforcement. But I don’t want the voters to turn their anger towards these cruel actors. I want them to focus that energy on the primary election ballot box. Focus on beating the Zuckerberg Republican Anderson, then help us remove the Democrat Griswold that has her thumb on our Colorado elections.”
“The secretary of state in Colorado controls the tools to our freedom. And in this Republican primary the voters have two choices. Vote for a public servant who has become a persecuted enemy of the left, while doing her sworn duty. Or vote for a friend of the progressive power structure. I’m not the real target of the left. The real target is the voters and I’m just standing in the way”.
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