May 30, 2024 12:02 PM UTC

Drink Up To Celebrate Mike Lynch...Getting Off Probation?

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• by: Colorado Pols

UPDATE: A reader helpfully notes that the Tavern 1301 is in the same building as the Historic Cow Palace Inn, which in theory would provide the accommodations needed to sleep off a night of hard celebrating getting off probation instead of racing the cops back home.

Drink up, we guess?

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If you find yourself in the buzzing (it’s bug season, after all) southeastern Colorado metropolis of Lamar next Monday evening, you’ve got the chance to celebrate a big occasion for ex-GOP House Minority Leader now running for Congress in CO-04 Mike Lynch–taking place perhaps a bit dubiously at the Tavern 1301:

What’s the big occasion you ask, besides counting down the remaining three weeks before Lynch takes his small fraction of the CO-04 primary vote helping Lauren Boebert carpetbag her way back to Congress? As the Colorado Sun reported back in January, next month Lynch is scheduled to be finally freed from the probation restrictions imposed with his sentence for DUI and carrying a gun while drunkenly racing a police officer down I-25 in the fall of 2022:

Lynch was charged with driving under the influence, speeding 10-19 mph over the speed limit and being in possession of a gun while drunk. He pleaded guilty to driving while ability impaired, a lesser offense, and the gun charge. Prosecutors dropped the other charges.

The representative was sentenced in December 2022 to 18 months probation and 150 hours of community service. Lynch told The Sun he still has some community service hours to complete and that his probation term — during which he is prohibited from possessing a gun — will end in June. [Pols emphasis]

Ask yourself: what better place to celebrate the end of your probation for DUI than a bar hours of rural highway from home? Hopefully that ends in either a very long Uber ride, or maybe a shorter ride to stay in one of Lamar’s fine two-star motels. We hope Tavern 1301 is careful to not overserve Lynch, or at least grab his Ford Mustang Mach-e keyfob if they do. After successfully concealing these charges and his punishment for over a year, Lynch took some comfort at a debate of CO-04 candidates, in which most of the candidates present readily admitted they also had been arrested–in Lauren Boebert’s case, her history being a matter of lengthy public record.

But, you know, maybe don’t lean in this hard.