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November 23, 2021 09:13 AM UTC
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My good friend Bill Hugenberg (retired atty and former Army intelligence) asked the question in a letter to the editor in which both Rubenstein and I were CC'd. Rubenstein replied… twice.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
P.O. Box 668
Grand Junction, CO 81502
Dear Editors:
This afternoon, the 3rd C.D.’s controversial Congresswoman Lauren Boebert released a statement “regarding the FBI’s investigation into Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters” wherein she claimed to have been personally briefed tegsrding the case by Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubinstein (Channel 11 News, “Lauren Boebert responds to FBI investigation of Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters”, Nov. 22; https://www.nbc11news.com/2021/11/22/lauren-boebert-responds-fbi-investigation-mesa-county-clerk-recorder-tina-peters/).
If Boebert is to be believed (which is more often than not problematic), the real question is why Rubenstein is “briefing” or discussing an ongoing criminal investigation with any political official – much less one tangentially connected to the same “Big Lie” that Peters espouses and who is potentially subject to criminal investigation herself.
After all, as Charles Ashby previously reported, Peters flew to South Dakota on a plane provided by “MyPillow Guy” Mike Lindell, and was accompanied by “Jacqueline Anderson, vice chairwoman of the Mesa County Republican Party, her husband Duke Everest, and Sherronna Bishop”, Boebert’s one-time campaign manager (“Peters used tax dollars to pay for South Dakota flight”, Aug 22). Since Bishop’s connection to Peters’ alleged criminal conspiracy was sufficient to afford probable cause for a federal search warrant, it remains entirely plausible that Boebert herself was similarly involved.
Therefore, Rubenstein should promptly release the complete transcript and/or recording of whatever he told Boebert and refrain from any future contact with her outside the public’s view. Otherwise, Rubenstein should recuse himself from the investigation and refer all “briefing” requests to Attorney General Phil Weiser’s office.
Rubenstein, Weiser, and the FBI should not allow a dishonestly self-serving politician like Boebert — who cynically questions the integrity of her own election — to similarly taint the integrity of the ongoing criminal investigation into her supporters’ conduct.
Bill Hugenberg
First Response:
Hugenberg follow up to today's front page story …
Tuesday’s timely front-page report by Dale Shrull (“Boebert asks DA for briefing on Peters’ incident”) raises more questions than it answers about the relationship between our sleazy Trumpublican-excuse-for-a-Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (see her other Monday tax-funded vomit-filled press release “Fighting Socialism”, Nov. 22) and our otherwise reputable-beyond-reproach Republican District Attorney Dan Rubinstein
First, what was Boebert doing asking Rubinstein for a “briefing” about FBI raids on her supporters in the first place? Did the FBI/DOJ in D.C. properly tell her to “F**k Off” or “Get Lost”, because she should not be “briefed” on any ongoing criminal investigations? Was she similarly rebuffed by Colorado’s Attorney General Phil Weiser, who also has jurisdiction over Mesa County?
Second, why did Rubenstein respond to Boebert’s inappropriate request at all? Does he think he owes a fellow (regardless of how sleazy) Republican some special courtesy? Is he unaware of the perception-of-impropriety he creates when he appears to succumb to Boebert’s blandishment and entertains her attempt to co-opt his integrity onto herself?
Third, Rubenstein says Boebert “wanted to know how full of it Tina [Peters] and Sherronna [Bishop] are, and what she could do to let [his] investigation conclude without their distractions”. However, Boebert undoubtedly already knew that Peters and her former campaign manager were bald-faced liars, so what was her ulterior motive — to ingratiate herself to Rubenstein by calling him “responsible” and “professional”? Why didn’t Rubenstein just tell her to stay out of it? – Or perhaps that’s exactly what he told her!
Fourth, how can Boebert claim “that she will continue to be briefed during the ongoing investigation” when she herself is a potential suspect? – Or perhaps that is her intent all along: to stay close to the investigation as it closes in on her.
We need more answers from Rubenstein and Weiser (or the Sentinel)!
Bill Hugenberg
Maybe Q-bert isn't so stupid after all. (Or more likely, Jayson "Six-Inch Thumb" Boebert or one of her staff members explained to her what she needed to do to survive.)
She's decided to throw Her Sherronna to the sharks to put some distance between herself and the Lindell-Peters-Bishop cabal of nut jobs.
Sherronna has quite a reach. There are comments from Yuma County on that thread!
Where is Yuma County? Or do you mean Baja Phillips County?
That would be an appropriate description as we've done a pretty good job of draining the Ogallala and it will soon be one big sand box with no water!
The sad thing is that, having wrecked the agriculturalbase, eastern Coloradans have no interest in building a new economy — as Wray’s rejection of the CBD plant showed. Soon the only industries will be federal subsidies and T-shirts denouncing socialism.
No truer words spoken. We’ll soon be a case study for Who Moved My (government) Cheese?
There's still plenty of good growth opportunities in the rural recall and succession industries . . .
…and there’s the whole MeatIn! thingy.
R&R is probably “reading the room” correctly: that is, Peters and Bishop are lying and playing victims of overreach, the law enforcement guys (Rubinstein and AG Weiser) are telling the truth about what the home search was like, Bobo is just trying to seem important and on the job while edging towards throwing Peters and MySherrona under the bus to save herself.
Did I read that room right? Or do you have to be from Mesa County to get it?
You can be stupid and still listen to your handlers, image-makers and lawyers.
It may be a sign that Boebert's higher-ups have realized that Tina Peters's and company are in deep doodoo, and the FBI investigation is likely to net a wider circle of criminals.
She’s seen the evidence and knows that the FBI knows. No time like now for putting some distance between you and the soon to be indicted.
One has to wonder if Sherronna will sing a bit about Boebert’s own conduct during the campaign. Seems like the campaign manager might be in a pretty good position to shed some light on whether all that mileage she claimed is actually legit, eh?
Maybe it’s time for a new metaphor about a stopped calendar
that is right once a year? Two-Gun Tootsie may finally have got something right.
Daleen Brown and Teri Lyn Nelson (see above) whine like world class wimps and wussies.
"“Many of the constituents…her statement said."
No fucking way she wrote that. Way too literate and coherent.
Apparently the wheels of the Insurrection Bus also go round and round.
Maybe Sherronna has song to sing?
Complete sentences, three- and four-syllable words???? . . .
Not sure who wrote that, but I know it definitely wasn’t Pew-pew? (Hell, I have doubts she can even read it, even with her glasses??!!)
“. . .’rogue’ competent staffer,” anyone???
If the DA's briefing is "we got a search warrant from a judge, went to the locations specified in the warrant, and completed the search" and "no, we did not use a battering ram" — the briefing could well be legitimate and unobjectionable. Warrants and what they authorize are often public records and clearly, confirming a search happened and what tactics were used in the search seems to me to be a reasonable legislative oversight of government.
Warrants in Mesa County are almost always sealed at the request of the DA. This practice has grown from serious crimes and pending arrests to include just about everything. If the DA wants it sealed, the judges seal it. Other jurisdictions have different practices.
I'd be surprised if Rubenstein showed or told Boobert about actual evidence. He's smarter than that.
That's the thing about extremist organizations: They always end up eating their own. The problem is the damage they do to innocent people along the way.
They're like the people in the French Revolution … except on the opposite side of the ideological spectrum.