The attack by leftists in power in Colorado on Republican former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and the subsequent fallout continues to disrupt Democrats and their agendas there.
The latest move is that Gov. Jared Polis, a far-left Democrat whose claim to fame is being homosexual, has fired two members of the state’s clemency board.
This after they publicly ranted about their opposition to the governor’s grant of clemency to Peters, who was convicted of election offenses after she tried to document the voting during that controversial 2020 presidential vote.
That was when President Donald Trump was leading Joe Biden in multiple states and they all “stopped” counting votes for the night, then resumed the next day to count literally boxes and boxes of ballots – virtually all for Joe Biden.
Further undue influences in that vote were Mark Zuckerberg’s handout of some $400 million to local election officials who often used the cash windfall to recruit voters in Democrat districts, as well as the FBI’s decision to interfere by falsely describing details about Biden family scandals found in a laptop abandoned by Hunter Biden as Russian disinformation.
Gov. Jared Polis passed over other deserving inmates to give clemency to Tina Peters, according to two members of his clemency board who revealed Polis overruled the unanimous recommendation of his experts. Polis has now fired both of them. pic.twitter.com/N2bc8uxSc7
— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) July 2, 2026
NEW: Polis fires Colorado officials who opposed Tina Peters commutationhttps://t.co/01B1aS6DVy
— The Hill (@thehill) July 2, 2026
A report at the Washington Examiner said a letter viewed by the Colorado Sun explained Polis fired Hannah Seigel Proff and Azra Taslimi for violating their agreement to keep clemency board details confidential.
The board is subject to an executive order holding that all proceedings and records “shall be confidential and shall be available solely to the governor and the governor’s staff.”
Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison, a punishment that stood out starkly for its harshness. After all, one of Polis’ friends had been convicted of similarly trying to interfere with an election and was given probation.
Polis, under pressure from President Donald Trump’s demands that she be freed, commuted her sentence on June 1.
Predictably, extremist Democrats in Colorado were enraged by his action, as they sought to punish him. And the two fired Colorado Executive Clemency Advisory Board members wrote an opinion piece bashing the decision, the governor, and revealing confidential details.
“Members of the Executive Clemency Advisory Board are entrusted with access to highly confidential information throughout the clemency process,” the report said Polis wrote. “Maintaining the integrity of the clemency review process and preserving the confidentiality of Board deliberations are essential to the Board’s mission and the trust placed in its members. As a result, your continued service on the Board is inconsistent with the requirements of the Executive Order.”
The Examiner reported, “Most damning for the duo was that they revealed the entire board unanimously voted against clemency for Peters twice. Polis went against the advice and gave her clemency.”
They spilled, “Tina Peters was recommended for denial. Our board voted no. Twice. Unanimously. The governor granted her clemency anyway. The problem is not about Tina Peters’ case in isolation. It is what his decision reveals. That the system bends for some and holds firm against everyone else.”
WND has reported that the extremists’ response to Polis decision was incendiary.
An anti-Trump phobia, widely known as Trump Derangement Syndrome, apparently has prompted Democrats in the far-left state of Colorado to punish one of their own. That would be Polis, who reduced former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters’ sentence from nine years to four-and-a-half, making her eligible for parole.
The situation was that the nine-year sentence already had been ruled unconstitutional by an appeals court, so it was on its way out anyway. Polis took the opportunity to bend a knee to Trump, who repeatedly has criticized the Democrat state’s war on Peters, by reducing her term.
She was convicted of various counts stemming from her attempts to document the voting record in her state in the 2020 presidential race.
At the time, the Washington Examiner reported the state Democrat party approved a measure to censure Polis for his clemency move.
“The vote, approved by 90% of the Democratic Party’s State Central Committee, means he will not be allowed to participate as an honored guest, speaker, or recognized representative of the party at party functions,” the report said.
“Reducing her sentence now, under pressure from Donald Trump, is not justice,” the leftists in the Colorado Democratic Party, who in recent years have pushed extremism to the farthest reaches, said.
“It sends a message to future bad actors that election tampering has consequences, unless you’re friends with the president. That’s a dangerous and disappointing precedent to set.”
Peters was accused of letting an outside person access the Mesa County voting equipment.
“Peters said she made the move to preserve evidence she believed proved that Dominion Voting Systems and Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold coordinated a statewide software update to erase election system data from Dominion machines to help then-Democratic candidate Joe Biden win the presidency,” the report said.
“After making a copy of a hard drive during an update of election equipment in May 2021, images of Mesa County voting systems were later posted online, leading to charges…”
Curiously, the Democrat secretary of state in Colorado, Griswold, also was found to have posted pages and pages of election system passwords online, but she was never reprimanded much less charged.
Polis defended his actions by noting Peters’ concerns about election interference and her statements about that were protected speech under the First Amendment.
The state Court of Appeals had confirmed that, canceling her original sentence.
“I think it’s important that speech is never used as a basis for punishment.… It’s well-settled that the First Amendment generally prohibits punishing someone for their protected speech, and the trial court’s comments about Peters’s belief about the existence of election fraud went beyond relevant considerations for her sentencing,” Polis warned.
NEWS: Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) has commuted Tina Peters’ nine-year prison sentence to 4.5 years, allowing her to be released on parole on June 1st.
President Trump reacted to the news writing on Truth Social: “FREE TINA!” pic.twitter.com/SrmwcfQE4w
— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) May 15, 2026
🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: Election whistleblower Tina Peters will soon be RELEASED FROM PRISON, receiving clemency from Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, per CNN
INCREDIBLE NEWS! 🔥
Prayers and pressure worked! Tina will IMMINENTLY be freed!
Patriots from across the country have been… pic.twitter.com/9ciebtzswd
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 15, 2026
WorldNetDaily reported earlier on Trump’s opinion of Polis, regarding the Peters case.
He had said, before the governor’s change of heart, Polis can “rot in Hell.”
On social media, Trump posted, “God Bless Tina Peters, who is now, for two years out of nine, sitting in a Colorado Maximum Security Prison, at the age of 73, and sick, for the ‘crime’ of trying to stop the massive voter fraud that goes on in her State (where people are leaving in record numbers!). Hard to wish her a Happy New Year, but to the Scumbag Governor, and the disgusting ‘Republican’ (RINO!) DA, who did this to her (nothing happens to the Dems and their phony Mail In Ballot System that makes it impossible for a Republican to win an otherwise very winnable State!). I wish them only the worst. May they rot in Hell. FREE TINA PETERS!”
Trump earlier announced on social media:
“For years, Democrats ignored Violent and Vicious Crime of all shapes, sizes, colors, and types. Violent Criminals who should have been locked up were allowed to attack again. Democrats were also far too happy to let in the worst from the worst countries so they could rip off American Taxpayers. Democrats only think there is one crime – Not voting for them! Instead of protecting Americans and their Tax Dollars, Democrats chose instead to prosecute anyone they can find that wanted Safe and Secure Elections. Democrats have been relentless in their targeting of TINA PETERS, a Patriot who simply wanted to make sure that our Elections were Fair and Honest Tina is sitting in a Colorado prison for the “crime” of demanding Honest Elections. Today I am granting Tina a full Pardon for her attempts to expose Voter Fraud in the Rigged 2020 Presidential Election!”
